Thomas Peel of Swan River by Alexandra Hasluck

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page. Sunning to foredges. Minor marks on foredges. Dust jacket has some tearing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are still very good.

Thomas Peel's initial Swan River scheme to bring out hundreds of migrants with their stock and equipment and settle them on land may have been too ambitious. Yet he should be credited as a pioneer of free emigration and land settlement in Australia.

Alexandra Hasluck's biography of an extraordinary man is a sensitive and penetrating portrait of a man who stood out among his contemporaries. Brave, hardy, enterprising, independent but hospitable according to his means, Peel deserves better treatment than the one line in a newspaper on his death in 1865. (book flap)