Author: Clergyman, A.
Title: Australia As It Is, or Facts and Features, Sketches and Incidents of Australia and Australian Life with Notices of New Zealand: Thirteen Years Resident in the Interior of New South Wales.
Description: Tokyo Charles E. Tuttle, 1967. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, red cloth boards, gilt lettering, very good plus condition (in good plus dustjacket), frontispiece, jacket spine lightly faded (minimal edgewear, edge tears top spine). 257 pp. (Facsimile edition. Originally published in 1867.) Written anonymously by a clergyman, Rev. John Morison of New South Wales, who spent 13 years traveling in the interior. Comments on conditions in Australia (the bush, pioneering, squatting, droughts and floods, convictism, matrimony), the depravations of the Aborigines, and the atrocious retaliation measures. Publication in London had an impact because there were two reprints. This book will interest anyone interested in early Australian history as it presents a glimpse of two countries.

Keywords: australian history, travel, aborigines, indigenous, new south wales (nsw), pacific, new zealand, facsimile edition


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