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A Colonial Tramp: Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea
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Published in 1891, this two volume set by Hume Nisbet describes his extensive travels through the Australian colonies and New Guinea. In fifty-four chapters he touches on life at numerous places – and addresses topics of significance at the time – convicts, the land question, causes of massacres, missionaries and traders ...
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A Glance at Australia in 1880: Embracing a Squatters and Farmers Directory of the Whole of Australia
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Published in 18881 this book shows the present condition and production of some of leading industries, such as wool, wine, grain etc., the amount of each produced and exported. It includes information on the rise and progress of some of the leading mercantile houses in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide.
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A Vacation Tour at the Antipodes Through Victoria,Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand in 1861-1862
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Written in 1863 by Benjamin Arthur Heywood, this book describes the author's tour in 1861-1862 through Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand ...
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A Voyage Round the World
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Written by the Marquis de Beauvoir in 1870, it describes his travels around the world between 1866 and 1868. His journal focuses largely on his time in Australia ...
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Advance Australia: An Account of Eight Years Work, Wandering and Amusement in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria
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Written in 1885 by the English aristocrat Harold Finch-Hatton, fourth son of the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, the book describes his eight years’ work, wandering, and amusement in Qld, NSW and Vic. He spent most of his time in the Mackay district of Queensland where a town now bears his name ...
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An Octogenarian's Reminiscences
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James Bonwick, a teacher, author, historian and archivist, was born in 1817 at Lingfield, Surrey, the son of a carpenter. Having worked and travelled around the world, James has written his memories ...
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Anzac Memorial
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'The Anzac Memorial’ is a comprehensive compilation of names and primary source material from the First World War, and is compiled as a memorial to the Anzacs who fought and died in the Great War.
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Australasiatic Reminiscences of Twenty-three Years' Wanderings in Tasmania and the Australias
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'Australasiatic Reminisceanes' was written by Daniel Bruce in 1875 as an account of twenty three years spent in 'wanderings' in Tasmania and throughout Australia
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Australia and New Zealand
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An 1873 of tour of Australia by Anthony Trollope, the famous English novelist whose books illuminate virtually every aspect.
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Australia From a Woman's Point of View
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Describes the new role women were gaining in Australian society in 1913 ...
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Australia: Its Rise, Progress and Present Condition
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Written by William Westgarth in 1861, this volume is described as consisting chiefly of the articles Australasia and Australia of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." These articles have been revised or rewritten, so as to bring down to the present time the information upon this eventful part of our empire.
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Australian Bailliere's Gazetteers Set
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Australian Blue Book 1942
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Australian Cyclopedias Compendium Set
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Australian Etiquette 1885: Rules and Usages of the Best Society in the Australasian Colonies
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This comprehensive book covers everything such as: Manners, Introductions, Salutations, Visiting, Dinner Parties, Table Etiquette, Courtship, Weddings, Home Life, the Letter Writer, Funerals, Business, Dress, Pastimes … and much more.
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Australian Handbook 1873
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Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the fourth issue of the Australian Handbook is a guide with all kinds of interesting and unique information ...
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Australian Handbook 1874
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Australian Handbook 1875
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Australian Handbook 1876
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This publication covers the whole Australian region. It is mainly concerned with giving an oversight of each Australian colony and is aimed predominately at the commercial sector.
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Australian Handbook 1877
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Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the eighth issue of the Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers Directory is a guide with all kinds of interesting and unique information ...
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Australian Handbook 1878
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Australian Handbook 1879
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Australian Handbook 1881
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Australian Handbook 1882
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Australian Handbook 1884
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Australian Handbook 1885
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Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the "Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers Directory for 1885", the sixteenth year of issue, is a guide with all kinds of interesting and unique information ...
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Australian Handbook 1886
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The Directory and Business Guide portion of the Handbook is a comprehensive listing of importers, exporters and shippers. For the importers and exporters it lists their name, address and what they trade (sewing machine thread, engravings and works of art, bibles and books, wicker ware, glassware ... you name it, it's here ...
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Australian Handbook 1887
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Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers Directory for 1887, the eighteenth year of issue, is a guide with all kinds of interesting and unique information ...
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Australian Handbook 1888
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Apart from a descriptive account and statistical information for New Zealand, New Guinea, Fiji and each of the Australian colonies and their towns, you will also find details on climate, education, religion, agriculture, population, societies and clubs, parliamentary and official departments, local self-government, telegraphic and postal details
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Australian Handbook 1889
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Australian Handbook (incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea) - Manufacturers, Shippers & Importers Directory for 1889.
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Australian Handbook 1890
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The handbook includes many maps – exploration routes, rainfall, geographical features and land surface characteristics; railway routes for each colony (including New Zealand and Fiji); and street maps of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane ...
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Australian Handbook 1891
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This handbook gives a snapshot of the world of our ancestors in the early 1890s. Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, New Guinea and Fiji Islands. You will also find details of the governors, consuls and ecclesiastical ...
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Australian Handbook 1892
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Features of this Handbook include: >emigration information "likely to be of service to intending Emigrants", land regulations for each state and New Zealand, mining regulations for each state and New Zealand, Australasian ministries, leading events in Australia from December 1890 to November 1891, obituaries of people who died between December 1890 and November 1891 ...
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Australian Handbook 1893
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Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, New Guinea and Fiji Islands, the Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers Directory for 1893, this a guide with all kinds of interesting and unique information.
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Australian Handbook 1895
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Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, British New Guinea and Fiji, the Australian Handbook is a guide with all kinds of interesting and unique information ...
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Australian Handbook 1897
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The Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers Directory for 1897, the twenty-sixth year of issue, is a guide with all kinds of interesting and unique information. Covering each of the Australian states, New Zealand ...
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Australian Handbook 1898
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Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, British New Guinea and Fiji, the Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers Directory for 1898, the twenty-ninth year of issue, is a guide with all kinds of interesting and unique information ...
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Australian Handbook 1899
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Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, British New Guinea and Fiji, the Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers Directory for 1899, the thirtieth year of issue, is a guide with all kinds of interesting and unique information ...
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Australian Handbook 1900
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The publication covers the whole Australian region. It is mainly concerned with giving an oversight of each Australian colony and is aimed more at the commercial sector. Contains very useful histories and maps of each colony as seen in the perspective of 1900 ...
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Australian Handbook 1904
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1012 pages packed with all kinds of useful an interesting information - maps and description of each state, information for emigrants, wages for occupations, maps, gazetteer and much more ...
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Australian Pastoral Directory 1931
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A valuable source of information for those with ancestors who were on the land and owned stock. This book lists stockowners in all states of Australia as at 1931 ...
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Australian Pioneers and Reminicences
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Nehemiah Bartley's reminiscences of Australians and life from 1849 to 1894.
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Colonial Facts and Fictions
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Written by Mark Kershaw in 1886, this book covers a wide range of topics - Adventures with a boomerang, A Newcastle legend, The Royal Society of Hulloomaloo, A wonderful bath, A circular story, The smelting works, Dickey Adams, About earthquakes, and more. He also gives a more serious description of the areas visited ...
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Dead Heart of Australia
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Written in 1909 'The Dead Heart of Australia' was written by J.W. Gregory, a Professor of Geology, for the purpose of studying the interior of South-eastern Australia and the conditions of Lake Eyre.
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Descriptive Australia and Federal Guide 1890
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Useful, practical and interesting facts and other information to the general Australian public as well as to tourists and visitors to Australia.
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Dictionary of Australian Biography
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Includes 1030 concise biographies of Australians closely connected with Australia, and ho died before the end of 1942 ...
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Emigration: Where to Go, and Who Should Go: New Zealand and Australia
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The writer extols the virtue of migration over remaining in the UK living amongst armies of paupers, idlers and beggars, thieves and criminals! An environment lacking food and suffering from prevalent disease, living in filthy towns and cities, and then explains that New Zealand offers none of these ...
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Etiquette in Australia 1902
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A useful reference book for those researching Australia's social history at the beginning of the 20th century ...
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Exploring Expedition Through the Interior of Australia 1844
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In 1844 Ludwig Leichardt led his first expedition to Port Essington in the Northern Territory. Complete with details of the route traveled, and what they saw, this publication recounts the journey.
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Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies 1848
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Part dictionary and part gazetteer, this is a magnificent reference work for locating places and geographical features around Australia in the 1840s. Arranged alphabetically, the entries cover towns, mountains, gulfs, capes, rivers, creeks, valleys and more ...
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Handbook to Australasia 1859
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Historical Records of Australia Series 1 Volume 1
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History of Australasia
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This book takes the history of both Australia and New Zealand 'from the first dawn of discovery ... to the establishment of self-government in the various colonies'.
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Irish in Australia
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A useful guide for not only those with an interest in Irish history, but also those whose ancestry traces back to Ireland ...
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Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Our Price: AU$27.50
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Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell arrived in Sydney, having accepted the position of Assistant Surveyor-General in New South Wales. Between 1831 and 1864 he led four expeditions. The journal of his last is described here.
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Kennedy's Colonial Travel: A Narrative of 4 Year's Tour Through Australia, New Zealand and Canada
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David Kennedy made detailed observations of the places, people and social customs of the places visited on this tour.
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Landsborough's Expedition in Search of Burke and Wills
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Our Price: AU$19.50
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This product provides a great tool for researching the early land expeditions of Australia ...
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Last Voyage to India and Australia in the 'Sunbeam' by Lady Brassey 1886-1887
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Published posthumously in 1889, this book by Annie Brassey describes her last voyage to India and Australia on the luxury yacht Sunbeam. The voyage was undertaken to improve her health but, in late 1887 on the way to Mauritius, she died of malaria and was buried at sea ...
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Life and Progress in Australasia
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Written in 1898 by Michael Davitt, while MP for South Mayo following a 7 month journey through the Australasian colonies. He visited many places: Coolgardie, Albany, Adelaide, Broken Hill, Pyap, Melbourne, Geelong, Sydney, Brisbane, Rockhampton, and Auckland to name a few, and he ranges widely in what he writes ...
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My Australian Girlhood: Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life
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Written in 1902, 'My Australian Girlhood' gives interesting insights into life in the Australian bush at the time ...
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Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies
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Published in 1843, this book details travels and observations in Australia between 1831 and 1838. The author kept a journal recording notes on religious subjects, the productions of the places visited, the state of the Aborigines, the emigrants, the prisoner population and more ...
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Native Tribes of South-East Australia
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Our Price: AU$34.50
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Published in 1904, this book by anthropologist Alfred William Howitt is based on 40 years work which commenced with explorations in Central Australia. It is still considered an important work for understanding the cultures of indigenous peoples today ...
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New South Wales and Queensland
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Our Price: AU$19.50
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Anthony Trollope, the famous English novelist, also wrote travel books. In 1873 he published 'New South Wales and Queensland'. This book includes descriptions of various places in the states of New South Wales and Queensland.
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Old Colonials
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Our Price: AU$23.50
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Published in1891, this book by Alexander J Boyd describes life in the Queensland bush as witnessed by him during his time as a school inspector and journalist.
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Opals and Agates: Memories of Fifty Years of Australia and Polynesia
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Published in 1892 at Brisbane, Nehemiah Bartley’s 'Opals and Agates' records memories of fifty years of Australia and Polynesia ...
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Our Australian Colonies
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'Our Australian Colonies' traces the history of Australia's progress to 1865. In addition to a chapter devoted to each of the colonies, Mossman covers the discovery and exploration of Australia, the book includes maps and plans of Australia, Sydney and Port Jackson, Hobart Town, Melbourne, Port Phillip ...
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Past and Present Australian Life, Being for the Most Part Personal Reminiscences
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The book is mostly personal reminiscences of Zillmann with stories of the first explorers, convicts, blacks, and bush-rangers of Australia and a short historical sketch of the colonies, their progress and present condition. The book was compiled to provide English readers with a detailed description of life in the Australian colonies ...
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Pictures of the Past: Memories of Men I Have Met and Places I Have Seen
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Written by Francis H. Grundy in 1879, this book gives an overview of the author's life as an engineer in England as well as his time in New South Wales and Queensland ...
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Picturesque Atlas of Australasia 1886-88
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Our Price: AU$59.50
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A unique and valuable historical record of Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
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Pioneering Days: Thrilling Incidents in the Early Sixties
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Written in 1913 by one of just a few remaining pioneers of Western and North-Western Queensland, George Sutherland has recorded "reminiscenses of the distant past, of men and matters-the dangers and hardships they underwent through droughts and floods, savage blacks, hunger and thirst, &c."
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Prisoners of Australia: A Narrative
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Divided into four chapters, the author describes her experiences of what she saw and learnt of the condition of the convict prisoners in the Colony of New South Wales around the period of 1836, particularly focussing on the female prisoners ...
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Recent Discovery of Gold in Australia 1852
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In effect a series of papers presented to the British Parliament relating mainly to gold discoveries up to 1852 ...
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Round the Compass in Australia
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Consisting largely of articles appearing first in journals and then published in 1892 as a complete work, Gilbert Parker gives a glimpse of life and social conditions at the time in Australia ...
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Seven Years in the Australian Bush
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Written in Sydney in 1877 by James B Stevenson, this book was published in 1880 and tells how he spent his first seven years in the bush in the Australian colonies. He arrived during the 1860s in Moreton Bay ...
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The Aborigines: Their Present Condition
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List price AU$14.50
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Written by Mr J.R.B. Love, a son of the manse and student from South Australia, this reports on "two years of travel and investigation into the condition of the natives of unfrequented regions" ...
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Thoughts on Convict Management
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In 1836 Alexander Maconochie sailed to the convict settlement at Hobart in Van Diemen's Land as private secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Franklin. Here he wrote a report strongly critical of the state of prison discipline ...
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Wanderings South and East
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Published in 1882, 'Wanderings South and East' is a descriptive record of four years travel by Walter Coote "in the less known Countries and Islands of the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres" ...
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Year Book of Australia 1884
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The 'Year Book of Australia 1884' was published to provide Australian, English and Continental merchants and politicians with a detailed directory containing a wide range of useful and interesting information on Australian commercial, social and political progress ...
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