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Australia: A German traveller in the age of gold

Australia: A German traveller in the age of gold

Monteath, Peter
Gerstäcker, Friedrich

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAustralia & OceaniaExploration

ISBN10: 174305419X
ISBN13: 9781743054192
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: Jun 27 2016
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Friedrich Gerstäcker, the most illustrious and prolific of German travel writers, set foot in Australia in March 1851, having walked across the Andes, traipsed the goldfields of California, and sailed over the Pacific in search of new adventures.

Gerstäcker found adventures aplenty in Australia. He rowed and trekked down the Murray, absorbed the excitement triggered by the discovery of gold, visited his countrymen in South Australia, and trained his outsider's eyes on a colonial society gripped by profound change.

In this translated edition of Gerstäcker's book Australien, his lively travelogue is made available for the first time in English. Rarely has Australia's colonial past been presented with such insight, humour and entertainment.

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