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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 46 | August 2000


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

Jennifer Carter

Eyes to the Future

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.

ISBN 0 642 10723 8; $29.95
Pb, 250 x 175 mm, b&w and colour illus.

The Endless Playground:
Celebrating Australian Childhood

Compiled and edited by Paul Cliff

Endless Playground

Following in the series established by Acquired Tastes: Celebrating Australia’s Culinary History and A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia’s Sporting Life, this lavishly illustrated book takes a broad sweep through the history of Australian childhood, from the late eighteenth century to the present.

Drawing on material from the Library’s Oral History, Pictorial, Manuscript, Ephemera and Newspaper Collections, in addition to specially commissioned feature articles from Jack Bedson, Ursula Dubosarsky, Nick Enright, Steven Herrick and Robert Holden, the book celebrates two centuries of growing up in Australia.

ISBN 0 642 10724 6; $34.95
pb, 215 x 265 mm, b&w and colour illus.

BOTH PUBLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE FROM
Sales & Distribution, National Library of Australia,
CANBERRA ACT 2600. Tel. (02) 6262 1646 or 1800 800 100;
email nlasales@nla.gov.au; fax (02) 6273 1084.

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