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Eyes to the Future: Sketches of Australia and her Neighbours in the 1870s

Jennifer Carter

We are presented with much that is strange and much that is strangely familiar in Eyes to the Future as Jennifer Carter brings to life the Australian colonies in the 1870s.

Through judicious use of primary research material held in the National Library's collections, this publication explores social customs, social conditions, encounters with Australia's neighbours, eminent people, strange episodes, the operation of justice, royalty, romance, madness, dissent and much more in this fascinating decade.

The reader is drawn into the everyday lives of the colonists of the 1870s: some achieved fame and notoriety, others watched their hopes and dreams crumble, while many simply got on with the business of living. This portrait of Australia, 100 years after James Cook and his crew first visited in the Endeavour, presents a country in the early stages of emerging nationhood.

About the Author:

Jennifer M.T. Carter graduated MA from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and is now a Fellow of the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Burra 1845-1851: A Directory of Early Folk (1996) and Painting the Islands Vermilion: Archibald Watson and the Brig Carl (1999). She writes historical novels under the pseudonym Mary Talbot Cross, including The Foundling: A Tale of the Burra Burra Mine (1998).

ISBN 0 642 10723 8
2000, pb, 250 x 175 mm, b&w and colour illus.

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Last updated 14 November 2000