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Edward Wilson Landor
1811–1878
A sharp-eyed observer of colonial Western Australia, this English-born lawyer and writer is best remembered for turning firsthand experience into lively, satirical prose. His work offers a vivid glimpse of settler life in the 1840s, with humor, detail, and a strong sense of place.
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The Bushman — Life in a New Country
by Edward Wilson Landor
About the author
Born in England in 1811, Edward Wilson Landor trained in law and later became closely associated with the early colonial history of Western Australia. He spent time in the Swan River Colony in the 1840s, returned to England, and later settled again in Perth, where he worked in legal and public roles.
Landor is chiefly remembered as the author of The Bushman; or, Life in a New Country (1847), a satirical and partly autobiographical account of colonial life. The book has endured as one of the better-known literary portraits of early Western Australia, blending observation, travel writing, and social commentary.
He died in Western Australia in 1878. Alongside his legal and public career, his writing helped preserve a lively record of a formative period in the colony's history.