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| Editors' acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | To 1889: The Colonial Abroad | |
| William a Beckert in Italy, 1854 | 2 | |
| Catherine Helen Spence in England, 1865 | 7 | |
| John Smith in Paris and Interlaken, 1876 | 13 | |
| Alfred Blannin in Dover and Paris, 1876 | 17 | |
| James Hingston in Asia, 1879 | 20 | |
| A. F. Morrison in Moscow, 1883 | 26 | |
| James Hogan in New York, 1887 | 31 | |
| 2 | 1890-1913: Nationalists | |
| Alfred Deakin in India, 1891 | 37 | |
| A. G. Stephens in the United States, 1892 | 42 | |
| G. E. Morrison in China, 1894 | 46 | |
| Louis Becke in the South Seas, 1890s | 53 | |
| George Wirth in Montevideo, 1895 | 57 | |
| Henry Lawson in Wellington, 1897 | 60 | |
| Randolph Bedford in England and Italy, 1901 | 64 | |
| Nathan Spielvogel in Germany, 1904 | 69 | |
| Alf Vincent in Canton, 1907 | 74 | |
| Mary Gaunt on the African Gold Coast, 1910 | 77 | |
| Ethel Turner in Holland, 1910 | 85 | |
| Ada Holman in England, 1912 | 91 | |
| Douglas Mawson in Antarctica, 1912 | 97 | |
| 3 | 1914-39: Travel and Culture | |
| Hilda Rix Nicholas in Tangier, 1914 | 105 | |
| David Doull in Egypt, 1915 | 108 | |
| Martin Boyd shipboard and in England, 1915 | 113 | |
| Hector Dinning in France, 1916 | 119 | |
| Jack McLaren in Fiji, c. 1921 | 121 | |
| J. B. Murray in the United States, 1926 | 124 | |
| Nina Murdoch in Nice, 1927 | 130 | |
| Eric Muspratt in India, c. 1928 | 135 | |
| Ambrose Pratt in Malaya, c. 1930 | 141 | |
| Katharine Susannah Prichard in the Soviet Union, 1933 | 144 | |
| Jack Hides in Papua, 1935 | 149 | |
| H. M. Moran in Abyssinia and Germany, 1936-37 | 158 | |
| 4 | 1940-69: The World Expands | |
| Frank Clune in the Dutch East Indies, 1940 | 166 | |
| Paul McGuire in Bali, 1940 | 171 | |
| Patrick White in Athens, 1945-46 | 175 | |
| Alan McCulloch in Italy, 1948 | 182 | |
| Peter Pinney in Istanbul, 1948 | 188 | |
| Jill Ker Conway shipboard and in Ceylon, 1949 | 194 | |
| Marie Byles in India, 1953 | 200 | |
| Christopher Koch in London, 1955 | 204 | |
| Malcolm Oram shipboard in the Persian Gulf, 1956 | 208 | |
| Shirley Deane in Spain, c. 1956 | 215 | |
| Alan Moorehead in Kenya and Tanganyika, 1959 | 220 | |
| Cynthia Nolan in Ethiopia, 1962 | 224 | |
| Dymphna Cusack in Albania, 1965 | 231 | |
| Nancy Phelan in Chile, 1969 | 236 | |
| 5 | 1970 to Present: Travels in Postmodernity | |
| Suzanne Falkiner in Central America, 1975 | 242 | |
| Gerard Lee in Indonesia, 1978 | 248 | |
| Clive James in Los Angeles, 1979 | 254 | |
| Gillian Bouras in Greece, 1980 | 258 | |
| Vincent Buckley in Ireland, 1981 | 263 | |
| Robyn Davidson in the United States, 1981 | 269 | |
| David Malouf in Italy, 1982 | 274 | |
| Germaine Greer in Brazil, 1984 | 279 | |
| Kate Jennings in New York, 1987 | 285 | |
| Peter Conrad in four places, 1990 | 290 | |
| Andrew Riemer in Austria and Hungary, 1991 | 295 | |
| 6 | Returning Home | |
| Nathan Spielvogel in the Mallee, 1904 | 304 | |
| Nina Murdoch in Melbourne, 1928 | 306 | |
| Gerard Lee at Bondi, 1988 | 309 | |
| Notes | 312 | |
| Select bibliography | 318 | |
| Sources and acknowledgments | 321 | |
| Index | 324 |
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Jeff Coulter
reviewed The Oxford Book of Australian Travel Writing on November 03, 2012
The Oxford Book of Australian Travel Writing
Scotsman John Buchan's fabulous The Thirty-Nine Steps is rightly considered a seminal classic in the Adventure/Spy genre and it is for good reason it was on The Guardian's Best 100 English Novels list at #42.
This exciting tale of espionage defined the man-on-the-run tale in breathless fashion, and was the first of the author's Richard Hannay tales. What remains remarkable is the contemporary prose. Though it takes place before the first World War, offering insight into the view of what was happening at that time, the tale is timeless, and with minor changes, could easily be a thrilling espionage adventure told in our day. Books need to be judged within their context, and while most do, some don't. This classic has a solid four-star average after hundreds of reviews on Amazon in the US, which accurately reflects how much fun this is to read.
That's not to say some of what happens isn't implausible, almost Cornell Woolrich implausible, but with a style and pace which makes Robert Ludlum seem lethargic ' no easy task ' the reader is having so much fun they simply don't care. Reading The Thirty-Nine Steps is fun and exciting, which is what it is supposed to be. Watching Hannay escape time after time until the thrilling confrontation and conclusion is exhilarating.
Buchan writes as though using lighting bolts rather than a pen, and we're just along for the electric-charged ride. The Thirty-Nine Steps is the quintessential can't-put-down read. That thrill you got as a youngster reading a mystery adventure by flashlight beneath the covers was captured by Buchan and moved forward into adulthood, and on that level it doesn't just succeed, it shines. It's on The Guardian's list for good reason.
The book differs from Hitchcock's famous British film adaptation in that there is no love interest for Hannay here; frankly because as a boys adventure story brought into adulthood, it isn't needed. A rollicking good old-fashioned tale that set a bar seldom reached since. Fabulous fun and quite enjoyable when read, if you don't make comparisons with spy novels written many decades later, and why would you do that? This edition of this seminal work has an excellent biography at the end readers will most likely enjoy. Highly recommended.
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