The ghost & the bounty hunter : William Buckley, John Batman and the theft of Kulin country

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Label

The ghost & the bounty hunter : William Buckley, John Batman and the theft of Kulin country

Title remainder

William Buckley, John Batman and the theft of Kulin country

Statement of responsibility

Adam Courtenay

Title variation

Ghost and the bounty hunter

Creator

• trueCourtenay, Adam

Author

• trueCourtenay, Adam

Subject

• trueAustralia -- History -- 19th century
• Batman, John, 1801-1839
• trueBounty hunters
• Buckley, William, 1780-1856
• trueColonies
• trueFugitives
• Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- History
• trueGovernment relations with indigenous peoples
• trueIndigenous Australians
• truePioneers
• trueVictoria
• Victoria -- Discovery and exploration
• trueVictoria -- History -- 19th century
• Fugitives from justice -- Victoria
• trueAustralia -- Exploration

Language

eng

Summary

Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five former soldier near death. Believing he was a lost kinsman returned from the dead, they took him in, and for thirty-two years Buckley lived as a Wadawurrung man, learning his adopted tribe's language, skills and methods to survive. The outside world finally caught up with Buckley in 1835, after John Batman, a bounty hunter from Van Diemen's Land, arrived in the area, seeking to acquire and control the perfect pastureland around the bay. What happened next saw the Wadawurrung betrayed and Buckley eventually broken. The theft of Kulin country would end in the birth of a city

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

994.5

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult