A novel by the English novelist, Henry Kingsley, who was the brother of the better known Charles Kingsley. After emigrating to Australia, Henry Kingsley became involved in golddigging, and later joined the mounted police. On his return to the United Kingdom in 1858 he devoted himself to literature, and wrote several well-regarded novels, including The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn (1859), set in Colebrooke, Devon, and Australia.