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Ross O'Cottawalla
The authorship is a mystery but the writing is efficiently vivid and entertaining. If this is a true autobiography it is an exceptionally enthralling insight into colonial Australia complete with tragedy, empathy, moral tales and politics. If not, it's a masterpiece.