Send the Boy to Sea : The Memoirs of a Sailor on the Goldfields Tapa blanda - 2001

Melbourne: Five Mile Press, 2001. xiv, 322pp, index, biblioghraphy, glossary, notes. Or card covers. Near new with only very light edge wear. Eyewitness acocunt of colonial Australia at the time of the gold rushes. Through the author's eyes we experience shipboard life on a convict transport including a convict riot; Hobart Town in the early 1850s and prison life; the Victorian goldfields in full swing just before the Eureka Stockade and hardship in Melbourne and the bush. Fascinating reading.. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne: The Five Mile Press. 2001. Very Good condition. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 322 pages. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.

The Five Mile Press, Noble Park, Victoria, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic and Contemporary. 500 g; XIV, three to two pages, indexed, bibliography, glossary, chapter notes, eight pages of black-and-white photography and reproductions of contemporary illustrations. Colour illustrated paperback binding. Edited by Peter Cuffley. This eyewitness account brings one of Australia's most colourful and adventurous decades vividly to life, and includes radical observations on Aboriginals, the environment, sex, feminism and crime and punishment. By the end of these memoirs, James Montagu Smith emerges as the prototype of the modern Australian. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and Contemporary. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Australiana; Local History -- Victoria; ISBN: 1865035661. ISBN/EAN: 9781865035666.… Leer más