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A Queenly Colony
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Written by William Henry Traill and published in 1901, 'A Queenly Colony: Pen Sketches and Camera Glimpses' ... "outlines some of the principal features of the colonization in Queensland". It includes an excellent selection of approximately 170 illustrations of people and places around Queensland ...
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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 Visit to Queensland and Her Goldfields
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Written by Chas H Allen and originally published in 1870, this book describes his travels in both Queensland and Victoria and touches on Sydney, Dealing largely with the goldfields of Gympie, the quartz reefs of Northern Queensland, gold mining in Ballarat, and the Port Phillip mining Company at Clunes, Allen also includes ...
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Aldine History of Queensland
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Our Price: AU$54.50
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An elegant, artistic and extremely rare book, the Aldine History of Queensland, is a comprehensive and beautifully illustrated record of Queensland's past, in two large volumes.
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Australia and New Zealand
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Our Price: AU$29.50
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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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Australian Aldine Histories Set: New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia
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Price if purchased separately AU$178.50
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These valuable historical and biographical volumes resources are now gathered together as a value set.
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Australian Cyclopedias Compendium Set
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The Australian Cyclopedias are an incredibly important resource for all historians researching Australian history, but just what are they, and what do they contain ...
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Barefoot Through the Bindies: Growing Up in North Queensland in the Early 1900s
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Our Price: AU$32.95
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Australian children of this new millennium take for granted a lifestyle that includes videos, TV soapies, DVDs, computer games, rock concerts, brand-name clothing and Mum's taxi service. But the Australian children ...
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Blackguards and Scoundrels of Colonial Queensland: True Stories of Crime, Passion and Punishment
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The days of our colonial ancestors were rough and tough - but this fascinating book by Queensland author Tony Matthews tells us just how dangerous and brutal life could really ...
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Colonial Adventures and Experiences
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Published in 1871 and written by 'A University Man' (George Carrington), this book aims, to set forth, in an entertaining way, something of the inner life, the everyday working experience of a colony, taking as my type the latest of the Australian colonies - Queensland ...
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Cooksland in North-Eastern Australia: The Future Cottonfield of Great Britain
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Our Price: AU$29.50
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Written by John Dunmore Lang in 1847, the book looks at the northern areas of Australia – their characteristics and prospects for future European colonization.
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Cottage Gardening in Queensland
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Our Price: AU$14.50
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Written by Henry Treloar in 1920, this book was compiled with the “desire that harassed householders may, by improved methods of cultivation, and cutting out the element of needless failure, produce more and better kitchen garden stuff in these days of outrageous prices of every commodity” ...
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Cultivation of Sugar Cane in Queensland
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The Cultivation of Sugar Cane in Queensland was written in 1924 by Harry Easterby at a time when many with little or no knowledge were starting to grow sugar-cane.
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Early Days in North Queensland
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Published posthumously in 1903, this book by Edward Palmer gives an overview of the history of northern Queensland. He came to the colony in 1857, two years before separation and remained there till his death in 1899 ...
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Flower Hunter in Queensland and New Zealand
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List Price AU$27.50
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Written in 1898 by Mrs Ellis Rowan, an Australian naturalist and well known illustrator of flowers, this book consists of 20 letters written from Queensland (between 1890 and 1892) and 8 letters from New Zealand. Apart from the discoveries she made of flowers and insects she gives an insight into life in the North Queensland area in the late 1800s ...
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Forty-Five Years Experience in North Queensland 1861-1905
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'Forty-Five Years Experience in North Queensland' is the written memoirs of W.R.O. Hill from when he was a young boy in England from 1844, through to his experiences in Queensland in 1861 to 1905.
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Four Years in Queensland
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Published in 1870, 'Four Years in Queensland' gives Edward B. Kennedy's observations on the colony of Queensland during his stay in the late 1860s ...
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Fox's History of Queensland 1919-23
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Our Price: AU$79.50
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This CD set includes searchable facsimile images of the entire three volumes of Fox’s History of Queensland and is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of that state.
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From Chart House to Bush Hut
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Published in 1920, this book records the experiences of Charles W. Bryde as he left the sea and took up the life of a land-lubber in the Atherton district, North Queensland ...
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Geographic History of Queensland
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This book contains a detailed geographical history of Queensland from the first voyages to Australia.
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Goldfields of Queensland 1858-1899
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Written by William Lees in 1899, the Goldfields of Queensland 1855 to 1899 includes special articles on the mineral fields of Chillagoe, Cloncurry and Copperfield. It covers fields at Gympie, Rockhampton, Crocodile Creek, Mount Usher, Mount Morgan, Clermont, Copperfield, Charters Towers, ...
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Hauling the Loads: A History of Australia's Working Horses and Bullocks
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How did our bush pioneers transport their heavy-duty goods and equipment to the outback before the advent of goods trains and trucks and road trains? It is amazing ...
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History of the Colony of Queensland
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Originally published in 1882, this book examines the history of Queensland from 1770 to the separation of the Moreton Bay District from New South Wales and its constitution as a separate colony in December 1859 ...
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In the Early Days: History and Incident of Pioneer Queensland
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Our Price: AU$27.50
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Covering all the happenings of Queensland up until 1894, it is a goldmine of information. Everything from wages, punishment, land surveys, trials, personal experiences, aborigines, elections, murders, ship arrivals ...
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Jubilee History of Queensland
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Our Price: AU$29.50
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Takes a thorough look over the fifty years that had passed since Queensland's inception, and details all the political, industrial and social development in both words and pictures.
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Jubilee History of Queensland 1900
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Our Price: AU$29.50
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The 'Jubilee History of Queensland' is a highly detailed book containing a range of information both about Australia as a whole and the Colony of Queensland. With a total 44 chapters, the book covers topics such as aborigines, growth, celebration, exploration ...
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Letters From Queensland
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Published in 1893, this book collects together a series of letters written between December 1892 and February 1893 by Flora Louise Shaw, The Times Special Correspondent ...
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Missing Friends: Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland 1871-1880
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Our Price: AU$27.50
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Written by Thorvald Peter Ludwig Weitemeyer, the book describes his adventures in Queensland between 1871 and 1880. Born in Copenhagen in 1850, at 21 he ran away to Hamburg where he boarded a ship bound for Queensland. After 14 years away without contacting his family, he compiled a manuscript of his travels to send to his father – it arrived the day after his death ...
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Moreton Bay Settlement or Queensland Before Separation 1770-1859
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The primary aim of this book is to present a 'concise history of incidents' occurring in the early times of Moreton Bay. Ideal for those researching the history of Australia.
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Murder and Misadventure: Terrifying True Tales from Australia's Past
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What would it be like to stand in the dock at your own murder trial and to realise that the jury cannot hear even a shred of the evidence? ...
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My Wife and I in Queensland
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Published in London in 1872, this book by Charles H. Eden recounts his experience of eight years in Queensland as well as giving an account of Polynesian labour in the colony ...
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Never Never Land: A Ride in North Queensland
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In 1884, Archibald William Stirling wrote this book as he could find no account which conveys even a general notion to the English reader of Queensland, the youngest of the Australian colonies ...
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New South Wales and Queensland
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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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Nomenclature of Queensland Railway Stations
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A 1914 list of all named railway stations in Queensland listed on their appropriate line and with the meaning of their name ...
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Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress
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On 10 December 1859 Queensland was proclaimed a separate colony to New South Wales. This book gives a review of the progress made during Queensland's first fifty years ...
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Pages from the Journal of a Queensland Squatter
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Published in 1901, this book by Oscar de Satagé records the memories of more than thirty years of pastoral life and adventure in Australia. He came originally to Victoria in 1853 ...
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Picturesque Australia: Its Flowers & Its Views: Queensland
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This small, beautifully coloured book gives views of twelve Queensland scenes bordered by flowers from all the Australian states.
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Place Names in Queensland, New Zealand and the Pacific
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Our Price: AU$19.50
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Written in 1944, this book is an interesting look at how places in Queensland, New Zealand, New Guinea and the Pacific area got their names.
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Queensland 1900
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Our Price: AU$27.50
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Historical-biographical publications were popular in the late Victorian, Edwardian period and comprised of a regional history together with biographies of notable citizens, whose contribution made the region successful. This volume is a history of Queensland and invluceds biographies ...
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Queensland Criminal Reports 1860-1907
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The 'Queensland Criminal Reports' is a compilation of all criminal cases between 1860-1907 ... and they cover everything from conspiracy, escapes, explosives, forgery, insolvency, intoxication, murder, neglect, schoolmaster, stealing, wounding unlawfully, and plenty more ...
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Queensland Education Gazette Compendium 1921-1925
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Price if purchased separately AU$122.50
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Education Gazettes are another wonderful, but underused resource for family historians. You can use the Queensland Education Gazettes to find details on the appointment and dismissals of teachers, as well as details on schools ...
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Queensland in Cameo: A Handbook of General Information Concerning North-East Australia
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This small publication was compiled by the Queensland Government Tourist Bureau to present to the tourist a “cameo” of Queensland and all it has to offer.
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Queensland's First Free Settlement 1838-1948
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A record of the efforts of the first free white settlers to win subsistence from the soil of Queensland by their own labour.
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Queensland, Australia
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Ideal for those researching Queensland’s history, as it provides an insight into Queensland as it was in 1861.
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River of Gold: The Wild Days of the Palmer River Gold Rush
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"What with cannibal blacks, pig-tailed Chinamen in thousands, lynch-law hangings, gambling dens, shanty towns, murders, grog-shops and Italian opera singers, the Palmer River Goldfields - properly spun out - should ...
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Sport and Pastime in Moreton Bay
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'Sport and Pastime in Moreton Bay' was written by Thomas Welsby in 1931 and contains information on the regions sport and pastimes, which being preominantly a fishing region, covers activities relating to that ...
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The Genesis of Queensland
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'An account of the first exploring journeys to and over Darling Downs: the earliest days of their occupation; social life; station seeking; the course of discovery, northward and westward ...'
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The Grazier's Review Volume 10: April 1930-March 1931
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Our Price: AU$39.50
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The Graziers' Review was the official organ of the United Graziers' Association of Queensland. It included information of particular relevance to graziers – on the weather, meat market, live stock market, stud stock, stock movements and much more. Importantly, it also mentioned the people involved – a "personal" section, obituaries, lists of shearing contractors ...
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The Grazier's Review Volume 11: April 1931-March 1932
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Our Price: AU$34.50
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The Graziers’ Review was the official organ of the United Graziers’ Association of Queensland. It included much information of particular relevance to graziers – on the weather, meat market, live stock market, stud stock, stock movements and much more. Importantly, it also mentioned the people involved – a “personal” section, obituaries, lists of estates for which probate has been granted, lists of shearing contractors ...
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The Grazier's Review Volume 13: April 1933-March 1934
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Our Price: AU$34.50
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The Graziers’ Review was the official organ of the United Graziers’ Association of Queensland. It included much information of particular relevance to graziers – on the weather, meat market, live stock market, stud stock, stock movements and much more. Importantly, it also mentioned the people involved – a “personal” section, engagements, weddings, obituaries, lists of estates for which probate has been granted ...
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The Queen of the Colonies: Queensland As I Knew It
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Written by "An eight years resident" (claimed by some sources to be E. Thorne) and published in 1876, the book was aimed at clearing up misapprehensions about the colony which existed in England at the time ...
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The Queensland Aborigines
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Our Price: AU$200.00
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In three magnificent volumes, a facsimile of Roth's 1897-1910 publications. Some of the most significant material ever published on the Australian Aboriginals. This edition with over 1,500 photos, line drawings ...
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The Shearers' War: The Story of the 1891 Shearers' Strike
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Our Price: AU$45.00
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'The Shearers' War' is the first exhaustively researched history of the legendary strike, and the definitive history of one of the most significant industrial disputes in Australian history. The book breaks new ground by disproving accepted myths, such as ...
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The St Helena Story: An Illustrated History of Colonial Queensland's Island Prison
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This well-presented 296-page full-colour history of colonial Queensland’s island prison is rich in eyewitness accounts, anecdotes, historic photographs and documents, illustrations and absorbing tales of prison life, mayhem and escape ...
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Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland Dating from 1837
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A brief sketch of the early days of the colony of
Queensland from 1837 through the eyes of Tom Petrie.
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Travel and Adventure in Northern Queensland
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Our Price: AU$27.50
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Written and published in 1895, the book describes time the author spent in Northern Queensland during the early 1890s. He was 'persuaded by friends who are better acquainted with the literary world than [him]self to write an account of [his] travels in a country so little known to the ordinary traveller as Northern Queensland' ...
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