Caledonia Australis Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia Tapa blanda - 1985

Paperback. Good.

Sydney, Australia: Collins, 1984. Slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Deals with the settlement of the Gippsland area of Victoria in the mid nineteenth century, mainly by emigrants from the Scottish highlands. 214pp, b&w illustrations.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Collins, Sydney, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 214 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen. After their military defeat in 1745 the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout of another people, the Kurnai of Gippsland in south-eastern Australia. And prominent among those who did the routing were emigrant Highlanders like the explorer Angus McMillan. Quantity… Leer más

Harpercollins. hardcover. Very Good. Very Good text, typical light reading wear to cover and edges.. Biblio's shipping charge based on a 2 lb weight. Oversize and heavy books will require an additional shipping charge.

Sydney: Collins, 1984 4to. original printed paper wraps (slightly rubbed & creased, inscrip. to first leaf, small watermark at tail edge); pp. viii, 214, with illustrations. A very good copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. VG+.