Henry Kingsley

Henry Kingsley's Books and Stories

Ravenshoe

Literature

5.0

Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

Geoffrey Hamlyn

Literature

5.0

Near the end of February 1857, I think about the 20th or so, though it don’t much matter; I only know it was near the latter end of summer, burning hot, with the bushfires raging like volcanoes on the ranges, and the river reduced to a slender stream of water, almost lost upon the broad white flats of quartz shingle.