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My Home in Tasmania - During a Residence of Nine Years (Paperback)
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My Home in Tasmania - During a Residence of Nine Years (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania, Volume 1
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Louisa Anne Meredith's account of her life in Tasmania was
published in 1852. She was an experienced traveller, and this work
is remarkable for being the first detailed account by a woman of
life in the colony. Its shrewd observations and descriptive
personal narrative make it an engaging read, as well as providing a
valuable historical record. A keen botanist and artist, Meredith
describes the island's natural life in great detail in beautiful
and evocative passages. This first volume covers the journey to the
island and her initial impressions of it. Her discussions of
'polite society', politics, prisoner and ex-prisoner populations,
the 'white slave' issue, and her attitudes to the island's native
people, also provide fascinating examples of colonial attitudes in
the period and of how different cultures and backgrounds existed
together on the island. For more information on this author, see
http: //orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=merel
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