Author: Tyler, Robert Emeric IV (editor).
Title: My Dear Emma: A Full and Detailed Account of the Journey of Robert Emeric Tyler and His Son, to Western Australia, and Their Return to England, August 1st 1895 to March 7th 1896.
Description: Perth, Fremantle Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2003. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos & drawings, maps, frontispiece, front cover corner tips little worn, edges lightly foxed, spine little creased, minor edgewear. 255 pp. This book follows Robert Tyler and his son, as they journey from England to Australia in the late 1890s. Their adventures, misadventures and naivety as they journeyed in remote parts of the Western Australian goldfields were recorded faithfully in letters to Robert's wife in England. Part travelogue, part social history, it is a remarkable personal account of an Australia of 100 years ago. ISBN: 1863683526

Keywords: australian history, travel, earth sciences, mining, goldfields, letters, britain, western australia 1863683526


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