Author: BADEN-POWELL, SIR GEORGE SMYTH.
Title: New Homes For The Old Country. A Personal Experience Of The Political And Domestic Life, The Industries, And The Natural History Of Australia And New Zealand.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. xx, 512; 4 full page b/w plates, 44 other illustrations within text; frontispiece with tissue guard; appendix; index; royal blue cloth covered boards decorated in gold and black; new black endpapers; foxing to page edges; foxing to early and late pages; re-backed with original spine; ex colonial office library with several stamps throughout; four pages have become loose from the top of the binding but still well attached; a good copy. London, Richard Bentley, 1872. Fergusson 14299. Author worked for the Governor of Victoria and has a huge amount of wonderful first hand information. Includes information on Feejee Fiji, New Caledonia, Chatham Islands, Lord Howe Island. Wonderful account of the " shout ' or drinking at anothers expense and when friends meet having nobblers, description of Sydney, Port Phillip Bay and Melbourne includes Gold districts, bicycles, fishing with flies, opium, water from Yan Yean reservoir, flooding of Elizabeth Street, interesting descriptions of all types of transport including horse drawn, rail, sail, foot, snakes, plants that poison sheep and cattle, gem stones and how to find them including from a chickens guts, copper, all types of farming, coal, timber and mineral wealth interesting account of bounty on snakes. Frontispiece of aboriginal stalking flock of emus dragging spear between toes camouflaged as emu, title page has illustration of platypi, signal semaphore at Port Arthur, Bushrangers, platypus, Echidna, natives feeding and much more. Front board has gilt illustration of southern cross and pointers, gilt trim and title in gilt on spine.

Keywords: Australia New Zealand baden powell aboriginal history colony aboriginee natural history Fiji Lord Howe Island New Caledonia Chatham Islands