"Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush-Life" by Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. In this book, he takes readers to Australia, a land that, to many at the time of its writing, was an exotic and unknown land full of mystery and adventure. Harry is a young sheep rancher who calls Queensland home, but when a match is struck in the middle of Australia's summer, he loses everything and must find a new way to survive.