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Hennessey, John David

(1847-1935) UK-born Australian minister and author, two of whose books are of sf interest: in An Australian Bush Track (1896; vt The Bush Track: A Story of the Australian Bush 1913) an ancient Lost Race of exiles from Asia are discovered in the outback of Australia, where they inhabit a kind of Lemuria called Zoo-Zoo land after a giant snake; The Lost Identity (1897) is fantasy. [JC]

John David Hennessey

born London: 16 December 1847

died Dromana, Melbourne, Victoria: 31 July 1935

works

• An Australian Bush Track (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1896) [hb/]
  • The Bush Track: A Story of the Australian Bush (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913) [vt of the above: hb/]
• The Lost Identity (Sydney, New South Wales: Hennessey, Harper and Company, 1897) [pb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 09:13 am on 12 November 2025.
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