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The Three Colonies Of Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia: Their Pastures, Copper Mines, & Gold Fields

The Three Colonies Of Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia: Their Pastures, Copper Mines, & Gold Fields

Sidney, Samuel

Paperback

Australia & OceaniaFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354506178
ISBN13: 9789354506178
Publisher: Alpha Ed
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Gold, grass, and red earth: three colonies under pressure and promise. A continent remade in weeks. In this vivid work of nineteenth century travel writing, Samuel Sidney surveys the 1850s Australian colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, and the South Australia colony at the very moment they were being mapped, worked, and argued over. Part colonial Australia nonfiction, part practical guide, it reads as a historical geography account of landscapes and livelihoods: sheep pastoralism in Australian colonies, the logistics of settlement, and the hard economics behind progress. Sidney weighs prospects for newcomers with a reporter's eye, making it essential British emigration literature as well as a brisk companion to gold rush travel narratives. Along the way, his pages track Australian gold rush history with on-the-ground specificity, from the upheaval of the diggings to the rise of ports and towns, and they offer rare context on copper mines South Australia and the industries that underwrote early prosperity. Written for a Victorian audience, its judgements reveal the ambitions and anxieties of empire, before the story hardened fully into legend. For readers, it is an absorbing window into colonial decision-making; for collectors, a durable Australian history reference that captures how Britain understood a distant continent in real time. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike, including those who seek the work in complete unabridged edition form.

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