Author: HENDERSON, GEO. C.
Title: Sir George Grey Pioneer Of Empire In Southern Lands
Description: Thick 8vo; pp. xxiv, 315; portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, 16 b/w plates, 5 maps 1 folding, 1 full page plan, bibliography, index, page edges uncut, original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, publisher's logo blind stamped on front board, spine and corners bumped and worn, foxing to endpapers and page edges, some wear to top of spine, a good copy. London, J.M. Dent & Co., MCMVII. (1907). Includes Home rule and the Irish Land question, explorations to North West Australia, Governor of South Australia where he instituted wonderful reforms for education for the benefit of the Aborigines and kept letters he received from some of these happy people. Lengthy descriptions of New Zealand and the Maori Wars, the Treaty of Waitangi, Africa and Kaffir, South Boer Transvaal Orange Free State. Maps include Explorations of North West and Western Australia, South Australia 1847, North Island New Zealand War Map 1860/70, and more.

Keywords: Australian biography Sir George Grey South Australian exploration explorer New Zealand South Africa aborigines