Pictorial History of Australia's Little Cornwall
$36.41
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2020
Summary
In the 1840s Cornish miners and their families came pouring into South Australia to take their part in the new colony’s great copper boom. They came to lend their home-grown expertise to extracting the rich ore that gave South Australia a world-wide reputation as being the Copper Kingdom.
These ‘Cousin Jacks’, as they were called, left Old Cornwall by the thousands when the news of the copper discoveries became known. In a matter of only a few years they had created Cornish communitie…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781743056554 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1743056559 |
| Author: | Philip Payton |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 524g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 266mm x 220mm |
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About The Author
Philip Payton
Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies at the University of Exeter, where he was formerly Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, and is Professor of History at Flinders University as well as Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. He is the author or editor of more than sixty books, most on Cornish themes. Recent volumes include Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion: 1490-1690 (University of Exeter Press) and Vice-Regal: A history of the Governors of South Australia (Wakefield Press). He is an Honorary Life Member of the Cornish Association of South Australia, and is a bard of the Cornish Gorsedh. His bardic name Car Dyvresow means ‘friend of exiles’.
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