Our antipodes
Title:
Our antipodes / by Godfrey Charles Mundy ; abbreviated and with an introduction by D.W.A. Baker.
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Publication Information:
Canberra : Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, 2006.
Physical description:
xvii, 305 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Notes:
Abridgement of three volume 1852 edition. Originally published as Our antipodes, or, Residence and rambles in the Australasian Colonies with a glimpse of the gold fields, London: Bentley, 1855 Ferguson no.12958.
Contents:
Ch. I. Arrival in Sydney -- Ch. II. The convict taint -- Ch. III. Colonial history and a trip to the Bush -- Ch. IV. The Blue Mountains -- Ch. V. Across the Blue Mountains -- Ch. VI. Aborigines -- Ch. VII. Squatters and squatting -- Ch. VIII. Life in the Bush -- Ch. IX. The squatting districts -- Ch. X. Wellington and Bathurst -- Ch. XI. Sydney society -- Ch. XII. (1848) Sydney again -- Ch. XIII. Excursion to Illawarra, or the five islands -- Ch. XIV. Emigration -- Ch. XV. Transportation -- Ch. XVI. Excursion to Van Diemen's land -- Ch. XVII. Van Diemen's land -- Ch. XVIII. Port Arthur -- Ch. XIX. Northern Tasmania -- Ch. XX. Port Phillip -- Ch. XXI. The gold discovery -- Ch. XXII. Ophir and the Turon -- Ch. XXIII. The Turon; conclusion.
ISBN:
9781740761857
1740761855
Alternate Title:
Our antipodes, or, Residence and rambles in the Australasian Colonies with a glimpse of the gold fields
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Record ID:
SD_ILS:805551
Electronic resources:
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0704/2006445701.html