Martin Cash (book) explained

Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers
Author:	Frank Clune
Country:	Australia
Language:	English
Genre:	Biography
Publisher:	Angus and Robertson
Release Date:	1955
Media Type:	Print
Pages:	335 pp.

Martin Cash is a 1955 Australian biography by Frank Clune about the bushranger Martin Cash.^[1]

It was also published as Martin Cash: The Lucky Bushranger and Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers.^[2]

Critical reception

The Age said "the book bears signs of having been hastily put together. Mr Clune's facile style is a little too facile." However the reviewer thought it was also "very entertaining."^[3]

The Sydney Morning Herald review called Clune "Australia's cliche expert" and listed the book's cliches in its review.^[4]

See also

• 1955 in Australian literature

Notes and References

1. Web site: Martin Cash by Frank Clune. National Library of Australia. 24 April 2024.
2. Web site: Austlit — Martin Cash by Frank Clune . Austlit. 24 April 2024.
3. Web site: "Martin Cash: Tasmania's Audacious And Romantic Bushranger" . The Age, 31 December 1955, p14. 24 April 2024.
4. Web site: "Testimony From an Expert" . Sydney Morning Herald, 8 January 1956, p38. 24 April 2024.