Our Antipodes by Godfrey Charles Mundy - abbreviated and with an introduction by D W A Baker

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Protective plastic covering. Remnant of date due slip on preliminary endpage now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Stamp to imprint page. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Book is clean and binding is excellent.

This is an abridgement of Godfrey Charles Mundy's popular three-volume work of 1852, which gives a fresh insight into Australia's heritage.

This book gives the reader an absorbing picture of colonial Australia - including Sydney and the bush. The book represents a measured account of the day's big social and political questions, including implications of convict transportation, the desirability of free immigration, the distribution of crown lands and relations with the Indigenous population. (publisher blurb)