Author: MACKANESS, GEORGE; Editor. Title: Fourteen Journeys Over the Blue Mountains of New South Wales 1813-1841.
Description: First Collected Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. (xii), 273; 8 b/w. plates, 4 text illustrations, notes & references to each chapter, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, price clipped and chipped on edges and browned, good copy. Sydney; Horwitz - Grahame; 1965. Originally published separately in a series of limited edition monographs. One of the accounts is that of Charles Darwin's crossing when he visited Australia on the Beagle voyage, and accounts of the early explorers, Blaxland, Evans, Macquarie, Barron Field and several others are included.
Keywords: Australian Colonial Early Exploration Discovery Local History New South Wales
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- Book number: 126322