Author: George Barrington
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Shrewd publishers exploited the famous name and presented a seamless and colourful assemblage cut from official journals, revealing the extent of close contact with aboriginal peoples, the treatment of convicts and discovery of unusual plants and animals. Bearing all the hallmarks of authenticity, Barrington's account gained a singular place in popular contemporary travel and exploration literature, providing the foundation for a long series of embellished and illustrated histories. Botany Bay's reputation for cruel deprivation often overshadowed tales of opportunity presented to the talented. Barrington's revival as a reformed convict helped transform his own image, while the narrative's insights into the rigours of transportation, the struggle for survival and daily life in the penal colony initiated a lively convict travel literature."--BOOK JACKET.
George Barrington's Voyage to Botany Bay
Author: George Barrington
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Shrewd publishers exploited the famous name and presented a seamless and colourful assemblage cut from official journals, revealing the extent of close contact with aboriginal peoples, the treatment of convicts and discovery of unusual plants and animals. Bearing all the hallmarks of authenticity, Barrington's account gained a singular place in popular contemporary travel and exploration literature, providing the foundation for a long series of embellished and illustrated histories. Botany Bay's reputation for cruel deprivation often overshadowed tales of opportunity presented to the talented. Barrington's revival as a reformed convict helped transform his own image, while the narrative's insights into the rigours of transportation, the struggle for survival and daily life in the penal colony initiated a lively convict travel literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Shrewd publishers exploited the famous name and presented a seamless and colourful assemblage cut from official journals, revealing the extent of close contact with aboriginal peoples, the treatment of convicts and discovery of unusual plants and animals. Bearing all the hallmarks of authenticity, Barrington's account gained a singular place in popular contemporary travel and exploration literature, providing the foundation for a long series of embellished and illustrated histories. Botany Bay's reputation for cruel deprivation often overshadowed tales of opportunity presented to the talented. Barrington's revival as a reformed convict helped transform his own image, while the narrative's insights into the rigours of transportation, the struggle for survival and daily life in the penal colony initiated a lively convict travel literature."--BOOK JACKET.
A voyage to Botany Bay with a description of the country, manners, customs, religion, &c. of the natives ; to which is added his life and trial
Bibliography of Australia
Author: John Alexander Ferguson
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642990440
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642990440
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
A Voyage to New South Wales
Author: George Barrington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Chapbook edition of the original Barrington account.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Chapbook edition of the original Barrington account.
Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets, Pictures, and Maps in the Library of Parliament to September, 1911
Author: Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Australia)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Australian Autobiographical Narratives: To 1850
Author: Kay Walsh
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642105995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Comprehensive guide to published Australian autobiographical writing which deals with life in Australia up to 1850. Entries are listed alphabetically by author's name. Includes three separate indexes to personal names, places and subjects. Walsh has worked on numerous Australian reference publications. Hooton teaches English at the Australian Defence Force Academy and is co-author of 'The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature' (1985); Walsh is assisting her in preparing a new edition.
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642105995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Comprehensive guide to published Australian autobiographical writing which deals with life in Australia up to 1850. Entries are listed alphabetically by author's name. Includes three separate indexes to personal names, places and subjects. Walsh has worked on numerous Australian reference publications. Hooton teaches English at the Australian Defence Force Academy and is co-author of 'The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature' (1985); Walsh is assisting her in preparing a new edition.
A South African Bibliography to the Year 1925
Author: Sidney Mendelssohn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
"In 1979 A South African bibliography to the year 1925 (SABIB), compiled under the auspices of the South AFrican Library, was published in four volumes by Mansell of London. It was essentially a revision and continuation of Sidney Mendelssohn's South African bibliography (London, 1910), which recorded literature about South Africa from earliest times to 1909, regardless of place of publication. For the new bibliography the period was extended to 1925, but for practical reasons the scope was limited to the geographical area south of the Limpopo, and certain material, for example books in African languages, sheet music, maps and periodicals, was excluded."--Preface to Supplement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
"In 1979 A South African bibliography to the year 1925 (SABIB), compiled under the auspices of the South AFrican Library, was published in four volumes by Mansell of London. It was essentially a revision and continuation of Sidney Mendelssohn's South African bibliography (London, 1910), which recorded literature about South Africa from earliest times to 1909, regardless of place of publication. For the new bibliography the period was extended to 1925, but for practical reasons the scope was limited to the geographical area south of the Limpopo, and certain material, for example books in African languages, sheet music, maps and periodicals, was excluded."--Preface to Supplement.
Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, 1876. Reference Department
Author: Free Public Library (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Catalogue of the free public library, Sydney, 1876. Reference dept. [With]
Author: New South Wales state libr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Dobson's "Encyclopaedia"
Author: Robert D. Arner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512800090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This is the first study of the life and career of Thomas Dobson, arguably the most prominent American printer, publisher, and bookseller between the years 1785 and 1822, whose accomplishments included publication of the first American edition of the Hebrew Bible, and the first American edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512800090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This is the first study of the life and career of Thomas Dobson, arguably the most prominent American printer, publisher, and bookseller between the years 1785 and 1822, whose accomplishments included publication of the first American edition of the Hebrew Bible, and the first American edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.