To Serve in a Distant Land : Bishop Francis Russell Nixon and Anna Maria Nixon, the Tasmanian years 1843–1863
de ADKINS, Keith
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- 090852837X
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West Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Hobart: Blubber Head Press. 2020. Published in an edition of 500 copies. 8vo. xvi, 222pp; well illustrated in colour and b&w. Blue buckram with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 090852837X ***The Tasmanian years of the first Anglican Bishop, Francis Russell Nixon (1842-63), and his wife Anna Maria Woodcock. The study concerns not only the Bishop’s role as the colony’s leading churchman, but the couple’s personal stories, and especially their under-acknowledged contribution to colonial art. The book’s numerous illustrations include over forty of their own works, brought together for the first time. .
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- Título
- To Serve in a Distant Land : Bishop Francis Russell Nixon and Anna Maria Nixon, the Tasmanian years 1843–1863
- Autor
- ADKINS, Keith
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 090852837X
- ISBN 13
- 9780908528370
- Editorial
- Blubber Head Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Hobart
- Fecha de publicación
- 2020
- Palabras clave
- aborigines, anglican church, art, bhp, church of england, colonial, colonial art, religion, tasmania, Van Diemen's Land
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