Australia: A German Traveller in the Age of Gold by Friedrich Gerstacker

Australia: A German Traveller in the Age of Gold by Friedrich Gerstacker

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781743054192
Author: Friedrich Gerstacker
Additional Authors: Peter Monteath (editor)
Edition: Facsimile Edition
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Place: Kent Town SA
Year: 2016
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320 pages
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with all external stickers removed. Damage to tail front cover is protected with book tape. Book is clean and binding intact.

Friedrich Gerstacker, the most illustrious and prolific of German travel writers, set foot in Australia in March 1851, having walked across the Andes, traipsed the goldfields of California, and sailed over the Pacific in search of new adventures.

Gerstacker found adventures aplenty in Australia. He rowed and trekked down the Murray, absorbed the excitement triggered by the discovery of gold, visited his countrymen in South Australia, and trained his outsider's eyes on a colonial society gripped by profound change.

In this translated edition of Gerstacker's book Australien, his lively travelogue is made available for the first time in English. Rarely has Australia's colonial past been presented with such insight, humour and entertainment.

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