Although Henry Kingsley spent little more than four years in Australia - from December 1853 to February 1858 - his novel The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn is among the best stories of station life in the heyday of the squatters, and his "colonial experience" coloured the remainder of his life. Kingsley was the son of an English clergyman. His elder brother, Charles, also a clergyman, was to achieve renown as the author of Westward Ho! and The Water...