Knocking About: Being Some Adventures of Augustus Baker Peirce in Australia edited Mrs Albert T Leatherbee
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Product Details
Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780959839180
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Author: Augustus Baker Peirce and Mrs Albert T Leatherbee (editor)
Edition: Facsimile Edition
Publisher: Shoestring Press
Place: Wangaratta VIC
Year: 1984
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 181 pages
Period: 19th Century
Book Description
Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Some light foxing to top foredge and preliminary pages. Dust jcaket is in good condition with small tears at corners and spine top. Mark on both front and back covers. Now enclosed in glossy protective dust jacket cover.
Facsimile printing of the 1924 Yale University Press publication.
The memoir details Peirce's life as an American mariner navigating colonial Australia, including his work as a draughtsman in Hill End, surveying, and his time on the Murray River.
It offers a vivid, first-hand account of 19th-century Australian life, covering topics like Aboriginal cultural encounters, sheep station work, and specific, detailed observations on local customs, food, and hunting in the Murrumbidgee area. (NSW State Library)
Knocking About: Being Some Adventures of Augustus Baker Peirce in Australia edited Mrs Albert T Leatherbee
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