Author: James BonwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Port Phillip Settlement
Author: James BonwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Port Phillip Settlement
Author: James BonwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
A History of the Port Phillip District
Author: A. G. L. ShawPublisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 9780522850642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This account of European settlement in the modern state of Victoria, Australia, spans developments from the first convict camp established in 1803 on the Bass Strait to the contemporary separation of the district from New South Wales. Aborigines, whalers, adventurers, squatters, speculators, and immigrants figure into this history of Victoria before the gold rush. The stories of such key leaders as John Baton and John Pascoe Fawkner offer insight into the founding of Melbourne, the economic depression and recovery of the 19th century, and the social progress of the 20th century. Details are drawn from primary sources including correspondence between officials in Melbourne, Sydney, and London and newspapers from Batman, Swanston, the Port Phillip Association, and La Trobe.
Moreton Bay Settlement; Or, Queensland Before Separation, 1770-1859
Author: W. W. CraigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Quotations largely taken from the several journals of first explorers and travellers; Types of cannibalism practised, mental capacity, effects upon the native character of contact with civilization.
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
Author: Watkin TenchPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465508635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
When it is recollected how much has been written to describe the Settlement of New South Wales, it seems necessary if not to offer an apology, yet to assign a reason, for an additional publication. The embarked in the fleet which sailed to found the establishment at Botany Bay. He shortly after published a Narrative of the Proceedings and State of the Colony, brought up to the beginning of July, 1788, which was well received, and passed through three editions. This could not but inspire both confidence and gratitude; but gratitude, would be badly manifested were he on the presumption of former favour to lay claim to present indulgence. He resumes the subject in the humble hope of communicating information, and increasing knowledge, of the country, which he describes. He resided at Port Jackson nearly four years: from the 20th of January, 1788, until the 18th of December, 1791. To an active and contemplative mind, a new country is an inexhaustible source of curiosity and speculation. It was the author's custom not only to note daily occurrences, and to inspect and record the progression of improvement; but also, when not prevented by military duties, to penetrate the surrounding country in different directions, in order to examine its nature, and ascertain its relative geographical situations. The greatest part of the work is inevitably composed of those materials which a journal supplies; but wherever reflections could be introduced without fastidiousness and parade, he has not scrupled to indulge them, in common with every other deviation which the strictness of narrative would allow. When this publication was nearly ready for the press; and when many of the opinions which it records had been declared, fresh accounts from Port Jackson were received. To the state of a country, where so many anxious trying hours of his life have passed, the author cannot feel indifferent. If by any sudden revolution of the laws of nature; or by any fortunate discovery of those on the spot, it has really become that fertile and prosperous land, which some represent it to be, he begs permission to add his voice to the general congratulation. He rejoices at its success: but it is only justice to himself and those with whom he acted to declare, that they feel no cause of reproach that so complete and happy an alteration did not take place at an earlier period.
Convicts of the Port Phillip District
Author: Keith M. ClarkePublisher:
ISBN: 9780958753333
Category : Convicts
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Settlement of Tasmania
Author: James Backhouse WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hobart (Tas.)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
History of Australian Land Settlement (1788-1920)
Author: Stephen Henry RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Early History of the Colony of Victoria
Author: Francis Peter LabillièrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Early History of the Colony of Victoria, Volume II
Author: Francis Peter LabillierePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
"Early History of the Colony of Victoria" is a two-volume historical work covering the first attempt by Europeans to settle in the area that eventually became the state of Victoria, led by Colonel David Collins in 1803, the foundation of Melbourne in 1835, and its economic growth after the discovery of gold in 1851. The second volume describes the effects of the gold rush, including the management of the goldfields, the imprisonment of unlicensed miners, and the miners' revolts against taxes, and covers political developments up to Victoria's integration into the Commonwealth of Australia.