Author: HUBER, THERESE.
Title: Adventures On A Journey To New Holland and The Lonely Deathbed. Translated by Rodney Livingstone. Edited with Preface and Notes, by Leslie Bodi.
Description: 8vo; pp. (viii), 128; 4 f/p. plates, references, notes; original cloth, dustjacket, bookplate, otherwise a very good copy. (Melbourne), Lansdowne Press Pty. Ltd., (1966). First novel written with an Australian background. This book was written in 1793, five years after the settlement of Sydney Cove. Therese Huber read avidly the reports of Governor Phillip, Watkin Tench, John Hunter and John White. Her husband accompanied Cook on his second voyage around the world. From this background Therese Huber wrote this novel, giving great insight into how Europeans envisaged the founding of a new continent.

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