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 brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front, cloth worn, some minor foxing to both first few pages, bookplate on front endpaper, 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