Author: LUCAS, REV. D. VANNORMAN
Title: Australia And Homeward.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. 338, last 2 blank; frontispiece with tissue guard; numerous b/w plates; front endpaper has separation with weakened hinge; bottom 6 cm of title page separate; Toronto, William Briggs, 1888. Mr. Curr's is quoted often in the section on Australian Aborigines and included is a comparison of various words from different areas. Several illustrations on the different means of gaining fire and superstitions attached, also the use and manufacture of canoes, weapons, message sticks, Black trackers; sorcery, witchcraft, extinction of the race. The world of the Coffee Palace reached its peak in Melbourne with the Victoria, the Grand, Melbourne, Coffeee houses, the Grand Hotel in Spring Street, Burke and Wills with much more. Chapter on the perils of pioneering. Illustrations include interesting dingo which seems to be drawn from a skin, a cassowary described as an Emu, beautiful Leadbeaters Cockatoo, scene of Windsor Castle with deer in foreground.

Keywords: australian aboriginal history massilia Curr Melbourne Federal coffee palace