Robert Hoddle : pioneer surveyor, 1794-1881 / Berres Hoddle Colville
- Bib ID:
- 3101010
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Colville, Berres Hoddle
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- Melbourne : Research Publications, 2004
- xvi, 324 p., [34] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0949600458
- Summary:
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Autobiography of surveyor Robert Hoddle, including substantial extracts from Hoddle's own diary and other writings; mention of Aboriginal guides; relationships with Aboriginal people; Hoddle's observations about Aboriginal people; discusses depictions of Aboriginal people in Hoddle's art; reproductions of drawings of bora rings and of ceremonial trees in one of the rings; Aboriginal figures included in some of the reproductions of Hoddle's art.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: PART ONE The Early Years
- 1 English Background 5
- 2 A Surveyor's Training 11
- 3 The Cape of Good Hope 21
- PART Two New South Wales
- 4 ANew Start 1823 35
- 5 Through the Blue Mountains on Bell's Line of Road 41
- 6 From the Hawkesbury to the Shoalhaven 47
- 7 The Puzzle of Moreton Bay 55
- 8 A Year Out West, around Bathurst and Mudgee 1825 71
- 9 Men of the West 83
- 10 'They thought I was humbugging them!' 91
- 11 A Visit to Recluse 99
- 12 Enter Major Mitchell 111
- 13 Major Mitchell's Map 1828-1834 117
- 14 The Families Arrive: Hoddles and Caswells 123
- 15 News from London 127
- 16 Concerning Susan, Mary and Sarah 131
- 17 'En route to Kiama (Illawarra) from Bong Bong' 135
- 18 Kangaroo Valley 141
- 19 'Canberry' on the Limestone Plains 147
- 20 Years on the Plains 1833-1836 157
- 21 The Hunter Valley and the Call to Port Phillip 165
- PART THREE Melbourne and the Port Phillip District,
- later Victoria
- 22 A Chapter on Port Phillip 171
- 23 The Melbourne Grid 1837 181
- 24 The First Melbourne Land Sale 1837 189
- 25 Problems and Progress 197
- 26 Respite at Stroud 1840 209
- 27 Concluding Hoddle's A Chapter on Port Phillip 215
- 28 The 1840s-Decade of Extremes 223
- 29 The Yarra River Survey 1844 -1845 241
- 30 Emily's Letters: Caswell Finale 253
- 31 Separation, Gold, Surveyor General 261
- 32 The Later Years 267
- 33 'A fine, fat case!' 277
- 34 Robert Hoddle, Surveyor, Artist, Diarist-His Heritage 281.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-310) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1986
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