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National Library of Australia News July 2003 cover with a colour photograph of a Nagasaki Musmee in 1866
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Nagasaki Musmee 1866
In: Travels in China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
album; 46 x 35.4 cm
Pictures Collection, nla.pic-an6589396-27

 

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July 2003 Volume XIII Number 10

FOR THE LOVE OF TRAVEL: CHINA AND JAPAN THROUGH THE EYES OF A NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCOT

 

Judy Cannon gains an insight into life in nineteenth-century Asia through the writings of George Robertson Nicoll

JOHNNY DEVLIN: RECOLLECTIONS OF A ROCK ICON
  Barry York describes his oral history interview with singer Johnny Devlin, whose pre-eminent place in Australia’s postwar popular cultural history made him an ideal subject for the Library’s Oral History and Folklore Collection
CHARLES HARPUR: FIRST POET AND PHILOSOPHER OF COLONIAL AUSTRALIA
 

Tim Cornell reveals how the poetry of Charles Harpur is finally receiving the acclaim it deserves

THIS UTOPIAN LAND OF THE PACIFIC: A GLIMPSE INTO THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF Australia’s CANADIANA COLLECTION
 

Amanda Laugesen describes how the nineteenth-century print culture of the Pacific Northwest helped to shape new nations

TELLING TRAVELLERS' TALES

Ann Nugent reports on the National Library’s two-day conference, Travellers' Tales: Writing about Journeys, Journeys through Writing, which was held in April

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