Author: CASTIEAU, JOHN BUCKLEY. (FINNANE, MARK; Editor).
Title: The Difficulties Of My Position: The Diaries of prison Governor John Buckley Castieau 1855-1884.
Description: First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xxxiv, 326; text illustrated with 36 b/w photographs, bibliography, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, corner missing from one page no loss of text, otherwise a fine copy. Canberra; National Library of Australia; 2004. A career in the Victorian penal system might not seem to be a source of excitement or even great interest, but for John Buckley Castieau it was the trigger for nearly three decades of diaries that reveal not only what went on behind prison walls but also much about the colony's early social history.
Keywords: biography prisons australia victoria melbourne Australian social history beechworth
Title: The Difficulties Of My Position: The Diaries of prison Governor John Buckley Castieau 1855-1884.
Description: First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xxxiv, 326; text illustrated with 36 b/w photographs, bibliography, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, corner missing from one page no loss of text, otherwise a fine copy. Canberra; National Library of Australia; 2004. A career in the Victorian penal system might not seem to be a source of excitement or even great interest, but for John Buckley Castieau it was the trigger for nearly three decades of diaries that reveal not only what went on behind prison walls but also much about the colony's early social history.
Keywords: biography prisons australia victoria melbourne Australian social history beechworth
Price: AUD 30.00 = appr. US$ 20.76 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 115296
- Book number: 115296