Royal Engineer: A Life of Sir Edmund DuCane by Alexandra Hasluck

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Light wear at spine tail. Some tiny marks on top and tail foredges. Dust jacket has some creasing to top edge. Price clipped. Fading to spine. Some tiny marks on front endpage, otherwise is excellent.

In 1851, Edmund DuCane, a young lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, volunteered to go to Western Australia to overseas convict works.

He married Georgiana Molloy's daughter, Mary Dorothea, in Western Australia.

Importantly, DuCane was a talented artist who sketched settlers, ships, buildings, Indigenous Australians, and more.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers please note that this book may contain descriptions and/or images of people who have passed away.