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Watt, Peter, 1949-

The Colonial's son / Peter Watt. - Sydney, N.S.W. : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2021. - ix, 367 pages : maps ; 24 cm. - The Colonial series 4 . - The Colonial series ; 4 .

As the son of 'the Colonial', legendary Queen's Captain Ian Steele, Josiah Steele has big shoes to fill. Although his home in New South Wales is a world away, he dreams of one day travelling to England to study to be a commissioned officer in the Scottish Regiment. After cutting his teeth in business on the rough and ready goldfields of Far North Queensland's Palmer River, he finally realises his dream and travels to England, where he is accepted into the Sandhurst military academy. While in London he makes surprising new acquaintances - and runs into a few old ones he'd rather have left behind. From the Australian bush to the glittering palaces of London, from the arid lands of Afghanistan and the horrors of war to the newly established Germany dominated by Prussian ideas of militarism, Josiah Steele must now forge his own path.

ISBN: 9781760986575 1760986577

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst--Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Soldiers--Training of--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Pioneers--Australia--Queensland--19th century--Fiction.
Gold mines and mining--Fiction.
Australian fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Palmer River Region (Qld.)--History --19th century --Fiction.
London (England)--History--1800-1950--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.
War fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: A823.4