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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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updated 14 November 2000
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