Isle of Girls by Eleanor Smith

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Sunning to foredges. Foxing marks on preliminary pages. Binding is still in good condition. No dust jacket. Book is in a non-adhesive protective cover. Inscribed by author.

The Isle of Girls is a history of Rottnest Island from European discovery to the mid twentieth century. It is an interesting account of shipwrecks, the struggle of the early free British settlers in the 1830s, the penal settlement and the sea pilots who used the island as a base.

Eleanor Smith used diaries, letters, pilot logs and the notes of John Watson (Superintendent of the Boys' Reformatory School 1880-1891).

Rottnest Island was known for many years as the Isle of Girls.

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