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Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Tucker, James, Ralph Rashleigh by James Tucker : edited by Colin Roderick, 1952 [based on a manuscript believed to have been written in 1845]
... New South Wales - Convict life... - Historical fiction Colin Roderick [editor] New South Wales - Convict ...The adventures of a Londoner who is transported as a convict to NSW. The book was published as the work of James Tucker, a convict transported to NSW in 1827 who is thought to have died in 1888. However authorship by Tucker has never been confirmed, although the book is understood to reflect the realities of convict life.303 p. : includes map: 'Port Jackson and Environs circa 1828'. Plain red cover, original dust jacket removed, title and author's name handwritten on spine.fictionThe adventures of a Londoner who is transported as a convict to NSW. The book was published as the work of James Tucker, a convict transported to NSW in 1827 who is thought to have died in 1888. However authorship by Tucker has never been confirmed, although the book is understood to reflect the realities of convict life.australian literature, james tucker, new south wales - historical fiction, colin roderick [editor], new south wales - convict life -
Koorie Heritage Trust
Book, Berzins, Baiba, The coming of the strangers : life in Australia 1788-1822, 1988
Contents: The coming of The Strangers; The environment & its shapers; The Governors & Their Circle; Staying & leaving ; The Lot of Women; Australia & the World; Australia in 1822.Blurb: The Coming of The Strangers challenges our ideas about the European settlement of Australia. Through a selection of the many document, painting and engravings held in the Mitchell and Dixon collections of the State Library of New South Wales, a picture of life in Australia is reconstructed - spanning the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to 1822 when the first generation of white Australians had accepted the continent as their home.Those who left no written records: the Aboriginal people; white women and convicts, have been brought to the foreground to give a balanced perspective of history during the earliest decades of European habitation in Australia.The Coming of The Strangers accompanies a major exhibition being held at the State Library of New South Wales during 1988. In co-ordinating both this book and the exhibition, the Mitchell Librarian, Baiba Berzins brings to public view many letters, journals and works of art that have not been published or displayed for over a century.144 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports. ; 27 cm.Contents: The coming of The Strangers; The environment & its shapers; The Governors & Their Circle; Staying & leaving ; The Lot of Women; Australia & the World; Australia in 1822.Blurb: The Coming of The Strangers challenges our ideas about the European settlement of Australia. Through a selection of the many document, painting and engravings held in the Mitchell and Dixon collections of the State Library of New South Wales, a picture of life in Australia is reconstructed - spanning the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to 1822 when the first generation of white Australians had accepted the continent as their home.Those who left no written records: the Aboriginal people; white women and convicts, have been brought to the foreground to give a balanced perspective of history during the earliest decades of European habitation in Australia.The Coming of The Strangers accompanies a major exhibition being held at the State Library of New South Wales during 1988. In co-ordinating both this book and the exhibition, the Mitchell Librarian, Baiba Berzins brings to public view many letters, journals and works of art that have not been published or displayed for over a century.australia -- history -- 1788-1851 -
The Celtic Club
Book, Patrick O'Farrell, Letters from Irish Australia 1825-1929, 1984
Letters ranging from those of convicts writing to their wives in the 1820s, through accounts of the voyage out and pioneering life in mid-century, through love letters, to short stories and failure to master the land, to the remarkable family saga (1883-1929) which ends the book.Index, bib., p.218.non-fictionLetters ranging from those of convicts writing to their wives in the 1820s, through accounts of the voyage out and pioneering life in mid-century, through love letters, to short stories and failure to master the land, to the remarkable family saga (1883-1929) which ends the book. irish - australia - correspondence., australia- minorities- history.