Wollaston's Picton Journal (1841-1844): Being Volume 1 of the Journal and Diaries (1841-1856) of Revd John Ramsden Wollaston

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair condition. Ex library copy with stamps and writing on inside preliminary pages. Blue pen on title page has bleed through onto several pages. Wear to book corners and edges. Marks on front and back covers. Sunning to foredges. No dust jacket. Binding are still very good.

Wollaston was an observant writer who included lively accounts of shipboard life and the setting up of his parish, St Mark's, at Picton. His honest description of life in Australia's alien environment is a valuable primary source document. Wollaston became rector at Albany and Perth's first archdeacon.

Edited with introduction and notes by Cannon Burton and Rev. Percy U Henn.