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Souvenirs d'un squatter francais en Australie (colonie de Victoria)

SubjectAustralia–Description and travel
Aboriginal Australians–Australia
Economic conditions
Gold mines and mining–History
Victoria–History
New South Wales–History
Melbourne (Vic.)
Personal narratives
French language–Writing
Pictures
Category1. Settlement
AuthorDe Castella, Hubert
KeywordsLivestock
Current HolderNational Library of Australia
Date1861
Item Number2454676
Access RightsDigitised
Rights Out of Copyright.
Country Of OriginFrance
Language French
Description From Sourcep. 81-128 : ill., 1 map ; 31 cm. In Le tour du monde: nouveau journal des voyages. Vol. 3. Text is an extract from de Castella’s forthcoming book, Les squatters Australiens (Paris : Hachette et Cie, 1861), but this article is copiously illustrated, whereas the book is unillustrated. Includes accounts of the Victorian goldfields, life at Dalry and Yering Station (east of Melbourne) including discussion of the local Aborigines, and a trip through western New South Wales visiting the grazing lands along the Namoi, Lachlan and Darling Rivers; includes engravings of drawings of Victorian Aboriginal people by Riou from photographs : scenes depict bark shelters, skin cloaks, corroborees; a camp; hunting scene on Murray River.
Physical FormatBooks
Pictures
Bibliographic Citationhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/NSKAIRVB/
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