Maiden voyages and infant colonies : two women's travel narratives of the 1790s / edited by Deirdre Coleman
- Bib ID:
- 2079854
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Washington, D.C. : Leicester University Press, 1998
- xviii, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0718501497
- 0718501500 (paperback)
- Series:
- Literature of travel, exploration and empire.
- Summary:
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This fully-annotated edition of Anna Maria Falconbridge's "Two Voyages to Sierra Leone" (1794) and Mary Ann Parker's "A Voyage Round the World" (1795) brings together the first published accounts by women of these new sites of British colonization. Editor based at University of Sydney.
- Full contents:
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- Two Voyages to Sierra Leone (1794) / Anna Maria Falconbridge
- A Voyage Round the World (1795) / Mary Ann Parker.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Falconbridge, A. M. (Anna Maria). Narrative of two voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the years 1791-1793
- Parker, Mary Ann. A voyage round the world, in the Gorgon man of war
- Voyages and travels
- Slave trade -- New South Wales -- Botany Bay -- History -- 18th century
- Slave trade -- Sierra Leone -- History -- 18th century
- Other authors/contributors:
- Coleman, Deirdre
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1998
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