The Collesses. Theirs is the story of Australia itself. Convicts, bushrangers, cattle thieves, pioneers, punters, graziers, ANZACs; floods and droughts, boom and bust, they lived right through it all. Their story is every bit as comprehensive as Dorothea Mackellar's "I love a sunburnt country". They were right in the thick of our founding cultural history; they helped to make it, helped make this land. From Bird's Eye Corner to the far corner country. Henry Colless's line - corner to corner, through the middle of everything. And it is not a line without trace. George, William, Henry, they each handed on their sterling character - a more telling legacy than money can buy.'
Henry Colless, one of the old pioneers. In his mid-teens he set out as a carrier across the Blue Mountains and then further along the track to the northwest. He was still a teenager when he helped his father and his brother establish legendary Come-by-Chance. He was one of the early settlers in Bourke, and later became one of its leading lights; and he drove a great mob of cattle across the corner country to establish the first station at Innamincka.
This is his story.
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Adrian Mitchell was born in Adelaide, and for many years taught and published in Australian literature, at the University of Adelaide and then at the University of Sydney, where he remains an Honorary Research Associate. His interest now is in retrieving the stories of those who have been passed over or forgotten, and in finding new ways of re-presenting them.
ISBN 9781743053690
CATEGORY Biography/Autobiography/True Stories
IMAGES 8 pages of colour photographs
PAGE COUNT 280
DIMENSIONS 210 x 140 mm
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'A kind of key-hole on to the Australian experience, rural and urban.' - Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald
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'Adrian Mitchell places members from generations of the Colless family against the backdrop of our early history. He cleverly ties the activities of the family to the geography and well known characters appearing in the important events of our nation's story.' - Rob Welsh, ReadPlus
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'A well-developed and, at times, lyrically-expressed, sense of place pervades this book's account of white settlement … In fact, Mitchell is at his strongest when he is describing the far-reaching effects of the vicissitudes of weather, economics, politicsóand dumb luckóon the lives of settlers and their communities … From Corner to Corner is the result of well-honed research and writing skills.' - Kylie Mirmohamadi, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
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'This book will appeal to those who are interested in the building of Australia through the many day to day events that affected the lives [of] not only the Colless family but many of our early pioneers. - M.G.T., ARPA News