The Incredible Journey

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Incredible Journey
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Catherine Martin
SeriesSUP Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:136
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 148
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781920897345
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Sydney University Press
Imprint Sydney University Press
Publication Date 11 August 2004
Publication Country Australia

Description

Martin's novels include An Australian Girl (1890) and The Silent Sea (1892). The Incredible Journey, her last novel, published in 1923, is the story of two aboriginal women through desert country to retrieve a little boy kidnapped by a white man. Catherine Edith Macauley Martin (1847-1937) was born in Scotland and arrived with her family in Adelaide in 1855. From around 1868 she published poetry and verse translations in newspapers. In 1874 she published her first collection in The Explorers and Other Poems.

Author Biography

Catherine Edith Macauley Martin (1848?-1937) was born on Skye, Scotland, and moved to Australia in 1855. She wrote under a number of pseudonyms and produces essays, short stories, poems and serialised novels about her life living between Australia and Europe.