‘Buckley’s Chance’ by Garry Linnell

Monday - Friday

12:00pm | 10:00pm REPEAT

What a tale this is. William Buckley was a towering giant of a man. After being wounded in the Napoleonic wars, he fell on hard times and was transported to Australia for petty theft. Sailing into Port Phillip in 1803 as a convict dragged into the British government’s half-hearted attempt to found a new penal colony, he escaped into the bush and lived wild for the next 32 years. The difference between life and death was being taken in by the Wadawurrung people who fed and clothed him and ultimately offered him a place in their society. Read more of the review from the Queensland Reviewers Collective at the webpage below.

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