Author: STARCK, NIGEL.
Title: The First Celebrity: Anthony Trollope's Australian Odyssey.
Description: First Australian Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xvi, 179; 12 pages of coloured and b/w. plates, bibliography, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, spine darkened otherwise a very good copy. Tusmore, SA; Writes of Passage; 2014. Now to mark the bicentenary of Trollope's birth, the Australian author reveals the full story of Trollope's travels in Australia during the 1870s: a mix of acclamation and condemnation that he provoked; the encounters with gold prospectors, Aborigines, Maoris, pioneers, and convicts; constant battles with the colonial press; and the son whose life as a sheep farmer inspired a novel.
Keywords: gea australian literature trollope mining press gold aborigines biography
Title: The First Celebrity: Anthony Trollope's Australian Odyssey.
Description: First Australian Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xvi, 179; 12 pages of coloured and b/w. plates, bibliography, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, spine darkened otherwise a very good copy. Tusmore, SA; Writes of Passage; 2014. Now to mark the bicentenary of Trollope's birth, the Australian author reveals the full story of Trollope's travels in Australia during the 1870s: a mix of acclamation and condemnation that he provoked; the encounters with gold prospectors, Aborigines, Maoris, pioneers, and convicts; constant battles with the colonial press; and the son whose life as a sheep farmer inspired a novel.
Keywords: gea australian literature trollope mining press gold aborigines biography
Price: AUD 40.00 = appr. US$ 27.67 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 114858
- Book number: 114858