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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 46 | August 2000
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Eyes
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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 Librarys collections, this publication explores social customs, social conditions, encounters with Australias 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 |
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The
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Following in the series established by Acquired Tastes: Celebrating Australias Culinary History and A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australias 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 Librarys 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 |
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BOTH PUBLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE FROM
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