Strangers in a Foreign Land
The Journal of Neil Black and Other Voices from the Western District
$77.96
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2008
Summary
Drawing on the extensive collections of the State Library of Victoria, Strangers in a Foreign Land provides rare insight into the realities of early settlement in Victoria.
When Niel Black, one of the most influential settlers of the Western District of Victoria, stepped onto the sand at Port Phillip Bay in 1839 and declared Melbourne to be ‘almost altogether a Scotch settlement’, he was paying the newly created outpost of the British Empire his highest compliment.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522855128 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522855121 |
| Author: | Maggie MacKellar |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2008 |
| Weight: | 550g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Maggie MacKellar
Maggie MacKellar lectures in Australian and cross-cultural comparative history at the University of Sydney. In 1996 she spent three months hiking, camping and kayaking in the Alaskan wilderness with the National Outdoor Leadership School, which provided the inspiration for this book. She lives in Sydney with her two children. Core of My Heart, My Country is her first book. MacKellar has since published her second book Strangers in a Foreign Land.
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