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Opals and Agates: Or, Scenes Under, the Southern Cross and the Magelhans; Being Memories of Fifty Years of Australia and Polynesia

Opals and Agates: Or, Scenes Under, the Southern Cross and the Magelhans; Being Memories of Fifty Years of Australia and Polynesia

Nehemiah Bartley

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAustralia & OceaniaTravel Writing

ISBN10: 9353604346
ISBN13: 9789353604349
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 30 2019
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Storm-swept coasts, raw frontier townships, and island harbours glittering under the Southern Cross. In Opals and Agates, Nehemiah Bartley gathers his memories of fifty years among Australia and Polynesia into a vivid classic australian travel memoir, alive with character and colour. Every page hums with experience. Written from the vantage-point of a roving observer moving through nineteenth century Australia and the wider Victorian era South Pacific, this nehemiah bartley memoir offers encounters, journeys, and impressions rather than dry record-keeping, capturing australia and polynesia life in bustling ports, remote stations, and the shifting world of trade and travel. Beyond its lively anecdote, Opals and Agates stands as an important window onto colonial Queensland experiences and everyday realities across the Australasian colonies. For Australian history buffs and for armchair travel readers, it is a key volume in any Australian colonial history collection, bringing human scale and immediacy to events now wrapped in distance. Shelved beside other landmarks of a classic travel literature collection, this nineteenth century travel narrative of south seas island stories and frontier settlements preserves an unrepeatable perspective on how nineteenth century Australia and its Pacific neighbours saw themselves and each other. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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