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Letters From Victorian Pioneers; Being a Series of Papers on the Early Occupation of the Colony, the Aborigines

Letters From Victorian Pioneers; Being a Series of Papers on the Early Occupation of the Colony, the Aborigines

Bride Thomas Francis

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Australia & OceaniaNative American History

ISBN10: 9353603382
ISBN13: 9789353603380
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 30 2019
Pages: 346
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Voices from the Victorian frontier speak again. Their letters change how a continent is remembered. Edited by Thomas Francis Bride from the original nineteenth-century Victoria, Australia correspondence sent to Superintendent Charles La Trobe, Letters from Victorian Pioneers gathers first-hand accounts of early Melbourne and Port Phillip at the moment a new colony took shape. These are not dry records. Settlers recall rough bush tracks, fragile homesteads, dealings with government, and, crucially, their encounters with the Aboriginal peoples whose lands they were occupying. Together, their testimonies form a vivid victorian pioneer letters collection that illuminates frontier life in Victoria and the complicated pioneers and Aborigines relations at its heart. A landmark colonial Victoria history book and cornerstone of any Australian colonial history collection, it offers primary sources on colonial Australia that remain essential for Australian history students, family historians, and researchers of Indigenous history alike. Casual readers, too, will find in this Australian settler correspondence an immediate, unvarnished window into ambition, fear, dispossession, and survival on the edge of empire. 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. For anyone interested in the charles la trobe historical papers, nineteenth-century Victoria, Australia, or the earliest years of European occupation, Letters from Victorian Pioneers stands as more than a document: it is a cultural touchstone.

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