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[Book Review] Australia : A German Traveller in the Age of Gold - Friedrich Gerstacker
2017
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— Appears in: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , June vol. 103 no. 1 2017; (p. 95-97)'Peter Monteath’s publication of an English-language version of Gerstäcker’s Australien makes a worthwhile contribution to early Australian history. Many authors wrote of their travels in Australia; for example, George Theodore Blakers’ account of life in Australia from 1849-64; Anthony Trollope’s travels in the early 1870s in Australia and New Zealand, and Adolph Würfel, influenced by Trollope, (K.M. Reynolds, Romanticism, Culture and Migration – the diary of Adolf Würfel) covering the period from 1876-1877, and Mark Twain, The Wayward Tourist (1895). Also there were settlers, who wrote of their first-hand experiences in Australia.' (Introduction)
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[Review Essay] Australia : A German Traveller in the Age of Gold
2017
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— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics & History , March vol. 63 no. 1 2017; (p. 140–141) 'Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of German novelist, and travel writer, Friedrich Gerstäcker’s birth, the account of his journey through Australia in 1851 has been made available in English, for the first time (originally published in German in 1854) — translated by a team of seven, edited by Peter Monteath, and published by Wakefield Press.' (Introduction)
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[Review Essay] Australia : A German Traveller in the Age of Gold
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics & History , March vol. 63 no. 1 2017; (p. 140–141) 'Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of German novelist, and travel writer, Friedrich Gerstäcker’s birth, the account of his journey through Australia in 1851 has been made available in English, for the first time (originally published in German in 1854) — translated by a team of seven, edited by Peter Monteath, and published by Wakefield Press.' (Introduction) -
[Book Review] Australia : A German Traveller in the Age of Gold - Friedrich Gerstacker
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , June vol. 103 no. 1 2017; (p. 95-97)'Peter Monteath’s publication of an English-language version of Gerstäcker’s Australien makes a worthwhile contribution to early Australian history. Many authors wrote of their travels in Australia; for example, George Theodore Blakers’ account of life in Australia from 1849-64; Anthony Trollope’s travels in the early 1870s in Australia and New Zealand, and Adolph Würfel, influenced by Trollope, (K.M. Reynolds, Romanticism, Culture and Migration – the diary of Adolf Würfel) covering the period from 1876-1877, and Mark Twain, The Wayward Tourist (1895). Also there were settlers, who wrote of their first-hand experiences in Australia.' (Introduction)
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