Extracts from the letters of James Backhouse : whilst engaged in a religious visit to Van Diemen's Land, New South Wales, and South Africa, accompanied by George Washington Walker
- Bib ID:
- 928946
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Backhouse, James, 1794-1869
- Description:
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- London : Harvey and Darton, 1842
- 2 volumes ; 21 cm.
- Full contents:
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- Volume 1: [Part 1] (1842)
- Part 2. 2nd ed. (1838)
- Part 3. [1st ed.] (1838)
- Part 4. [2nd or 3rd edition?] (1841)
- Part 5. [1st ed.] (1839)
- Part 6. [1st ed.] (1839)
- Volume 2: [Part 7] (1842)
- Part 8. [1st ed.] (1840)
- Part 9. [1st ed.] (1841)
- Part 10. [1st ed.] (1841)
- Biography/History:
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Naturalist and first Quaker missionary in Australia. He visited homes, penal and Aboriginal settlements in Van Diemen's land from 1833-1834, and in New South Wales from 1835-1837. See "Australian dictionary of biography", vol. 1, p. 45-46.
- Notes:
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- Originally issued in 10 separate parts, 1837?-1841.
- Parts 1-5 concern their visit to Van Dieman's Land and New South Wales.
- Part 6 "Though dealing with Mauritius and the voyage thither from Australia, there is a short account of Western Australia at page 3."--Bibliography of Australia.
- Parts 6-10 concern their visit to South Africa.
- National Library of Australia's FC F3354 copy (vol. 1 and 2) bound in dark brown embossed boards with green sprig decorated end papers and page edges decorated with red speckles.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 3354
- Subject:
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- Walker, George Washington, 1800-1859
- Backhouse, James, 1794-1869 -- Correspondence
- Missionaries -- Correspondence
- Society of Friends -- Missions
- Aboriginal Australians
- Convicts -- Australia
- Tasmania -- Description and travel
- New South Wales -- Description and travel
- South Africa -- Description and travel
- Tasmania -- Religious life and customs
- New South Wales -- Religious life and customs
- South Africa -- Religious life and customs
- Time Coverage:
- 1835-1837
- Occupation:
- Missionaries
- Other authors/contributors:
- Walker, George Washington, 1800-1859
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1869
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1842
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