Author: STATHAM-DREW, PAMELA.
Title: James Stirling. Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia.
Description: First Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. xv, 655; numerous b/w and colour illustrations, numerous maps, notes, select bibliography, index, bound in original black faux leather, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket chipped on edge, with original place ribbon, very good copy. Crawley, W.A.; University of Western Australia Press; 2003. This ambitious biography, breaks new ground in documenting fully Stirling's path from birth into one of Scotland's oldest families, through to founder and Governor of the Swan River Colony and, ultimately, to Admiral and British naval chief in East Asia.
Keywords: Sir James Stirling governors Western Australia biography Great Britain Royal Navy officers Swan River Colony
Title: James Stirling. Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia.
Description: First Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. xv, 655; numerous b/w and colour illustrations, numerous maps, notes, select bibliography, index, bound in original black faux leather, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket chipped on edge, with original place ribbon, very good copy. Crawley, W.A.; University of Western Australia Press; 2003. This ambitious biography, breaks new ground in documenting fully Stirling's path from birth into one of Scotland's oldest families, through to founder and Governor of the Swan River Colony and, ultimately, to Admiral and British naval chief in East Asia.
Keywords: Sir James Stirling governors Western Australia biography Great Britain Royal Navy officers Swan River Colony
Price: AUD 50.00 = appr. US$ 34.59 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 118906
- Book number: 118906