Governor George Arthur: A Colonial Benevolent Despot by Michael C I Levy

Book Description

Secondhand.

Good condition. Ex library copy with external sticker. Stamps and date due slip on inside pages. Wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has creasing at top and tail edges and at spine. Front book flap has had price torn off. Now enclosed with protective plastic cover. Binding is still very good.

George Arthur (1784–1854) was a governor whose ill fame has, for many years, received traditional acceptance despite his administration's generally commendable actual results.

His life work led him among the buccaneering, slave-driving log cutters of Honduras, the bushrangers, Aboriginals, convicts and lip-serving 'liberals' of Van Diemen's Land and the Feringhee hating Indians. (book flap)