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The Henty Journals - A Record of Farming, Whaling and Shipping in Portland Bay, 1834-1839 (Paperback)
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The Henty Journals - A Record of Farming, Whaling and Shipping in Portland Bay, 1834-1839 (Paperback)
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The Henty family emigrated from Sussex to Launceston in Van
Diemen's Land in the early 1830s. Three of the brothers became
pioneer settlers at Portland Bay on Australia's southern coast.
Their journals, which are among the most valuable items in the
manuscript collection of the LaTrobe Library, State Library of
Victoria, have never before been published. Written by Edward and
Francis, with some entries by John, this daily working record tells
of five years in the lives of four young men variously engaged in
farming, whaling and coastal shipping. These meticulous journals
are enlivened by a fascinating range of contemporary illustrations.
The book is an invaluable record both of the introduction of
well-ordered English farming methods to a new land and of the
populations of right whales that once visited Portland
Bay-interspersed with events such as the arrival of Major Mitchell,
Surveyor-General of New South Wales, who 'was not a little
surprised to find Englishmen in this Part of the World'.
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