Maitland Brown: A View of Nineteenth Century Western Australia by Peter Cowan

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Marks on tail foredge. Previous owner has signed and dated inside page. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine. Interior and binding are still very good.

Politician, explorer, magistrate, farmer and merchant, Maitland Brown was a crucial and often controversial figure in the colonial history of Western Australia.

Born at the settlement in York in 1843, he was among the first generation of British Australians born in the Swan River Colony. By the age of twenty-three, he had led an expedition to Roebuck Bay that became a legend in his time and had been appointed to the position of Resident Magistrate.

At twenty-seven, he became a member of the Colonial Legislative Council. Noted widely as an articulate, forthright and resourceful man, Maitland Brown came to have a profound influence on public affairs during Western Australia's formative years, which saw the transformation from a colonial administrative outpost to responsible government. (book flap)