Australian History

The Vagabond Papers by John Stanley James

Item: The Vagabond Papers
Author: John Arnold

by John Arnold •

September 2016, no. 384

Monash University Publishing $34.95 pb, 332 pp, 9781922235985

Australian History

The Vagabond Papers by John Stanley James

by John Arnold •

September 2016, no. 384

In March 2016 the Royal Historical Society of Victoria hosted a function to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Michael Cannon's The Land Boomers, first issued in 1966 and several times since. The various speakers paid tribute to Cannon's work as a freelance historian and editor whose many books provided fresh and accessible insights into nineteenth-century Australian life.

John Arnold

John Arnold recently retired from Monash University after twenty-three years with the National Centre for Australian Studies. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash. He was the co-editor (with John Hay) of the four-volume Bibliography of Australian Literature (2001–08) and author of The Fanfrolico Press: Satyrs, Fauns and Fine Books (2008). He edits the La Trobe Journal.