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

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Light foxing to endpages. Sunning to foredges. Dust jacket is in poor condition with the tail half of front cover missing. Dust jacket now in protective cover. Interior and 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.