Australia : historical, descriptive and statistic : with an account of a four years' residence in that colony, notes of a voyage round the world, Australian poems, &c. / by Richard Howitt
- Bib ID:
- 786453
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Howitt, Richard, 1799-1869
- Uniform Title:
- Impressions of Australia Felix
- Description:
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- London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845
- xiv, 362 pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Series:
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK1910
- Summary:
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Brief essays, including The Aborigines of Port Phillip, on impact of white settlement, rituals and creation myths, subsistence, shelters, government administration and Thomas census of Port Phillip Aborigines in 1839.
- Notes:
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- Also published in the same year under title: Impressions of Australia Felix, during four years' residence in that colony (Ferguson no. 4075)
- Title on added t.p.: Impressions of Australia Felix.
- Condition yellow paper at FRM F4076 (2 NL copies).
- National Library of Australia's FC F4076 copy is half bound in navy leather with marbled boards and tan endpapers. This copy has several stamps of: "United Law Clerks' society" in the book; and the name and date: Arthur Charles Humphreys, August 1848 added by hand on the title page.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 4076
- Subject:
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- Voyages around the world
- Government policy - State and territory - Victoria
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Hunting
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1788-1850
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Demography - Population dynamics
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Australia -- Poetry
- Victoria -- Description and travel
- Western Victoria (W Vic)
- Port Phillip / Western Port area (Vic SJ55)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1869
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1845
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