{"product_id":"9781921776595","title":"The Life and Adventures of William Buckley: Text Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Flannery has done us a service first by reissuing the story of a  fascinating adventure from 200 years ago, and then by setting these  events in perspective with his lucid introduction.’ \u003ci\u003eCanberra Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘At 2.00 pm on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambled into the camp left by John Batman at Indented Head near Geelong…’ \u003c\/p\u003e In 1803 the convict William Buckley, a former soldier, escaped from the first official settlement in Victoria, near Sorrento on Port Phillip Bay. For three decades the ‘wild white man’ lived with Aborigines around the bay, before giving himself up in 1835. First published in 1852, \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Adventures of William Buckley\u003c\/i\u003e is the ultimate survival story of early Australia and provides an extraordinary insight into pre-contact indigenous society.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Flannery\u003c\/b\u003e has published over thirty books, including the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Future Eaters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Weather Makers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHere on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish\u003c\/i\u003e.  In 2005 he was named Australian Humanist of the Year and in 2007  Australian of the Year. In 2007 he co-founded and was appointed Chair of  the Copenhagen Climate Council. In 2011 he became Australia’s Chief  Climate Commissioner, and in 2013 he founded the Australian Climate  Council.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘This account, in Buckley’s words…has all the elements of a Boy’s Own  yarn: convicts, savages, privations, wars, cannibalism, survival,  treachery and the founding of a colony.’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHerald Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164314550512,"sku":"9781921776595","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921776595_p0.jpg?v=1763632294","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921776595","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}