Author: WILDEY, WILLIAM BRACKLEY.
Title: Australasia. And The Oceanic Region with Some Notice of New Guinea, from Adelaide-Via Torres Straits- To Port Darwin Thence Round West Australia.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. xiv,17-426, [pp. 6 ads); Original blind-stamped green cloth with gilt title, brown endpapers; bookplate to fixed endpaper; some foxing to both first few and last few pages, a very good copy. Melbourne, George Robertson 1876 Nice descriptions of the various races found in New Guinea and possible origins, interesting facts on each state including exports in Victoria of 13 packages of leeches, amounts of gold exported, Immigration and Emigration figures. The Inter-colonial exhibition, mail routes, distances by water on the Murray, explorers, Aboriginal tribes, treatments of diseases in cattle, Alfred Russell Wallace, the Islands of Flores, Timor and much more.

Keywords: Travel Australia New Guinea Adelaide Torres Straits Darwin Mining northern Territory papua new guinea Moresby Rev Macfarlane gold flores timor