The Two Lives of Joseph Docker

The Two Lives of Joseph Docker
Author: J. M. McMillan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A fully documented biography of the life of an Anglican clergyman who arrived in Sydney in 1828, was forced to resign in 1833 by machinations against him, trekked overland to Port Phillip and became a squatter on Bontharambo Plains, Ovens River, where he built one of Victoria's most remarkable country houses. With appendices, bibliography and index. The author has also written a history of early Richmond, 'The view from Docker's Hill'.

This Errant Lady

This Errant Lady
Author: Jane Franklin
Publisher: National Library Australia
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0642107491

Jane Franklin's diary account of her travels from Van Diemen's Land to Port Phillip and then overland from Melbourne to Sydney in 1839 provides a detailed and colourful snapshot of colonial society recorded by a sharply observant witness -- back cover. includes brief references to Aboriginal people.

Ludwig Leichhardt's Ghosts

Ludwig Leichhardt's Ghosts
Author: Andrew Wright Hurley
Publisher: Studies in German Literature L
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1640140131

A fascinating cultural studies account of the "afterlife" of Leichhardt, revealing both German entanglement in British colonialism in Australia, and in a broader sense, what happens when we maintain an open stance to the ghosts of the past.

Witness to Things Past

Witness to Things Past
Author: John Aikman Hetherington
Publisher: [Melbourne] F. W. Cheshire [1964]
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1964
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Australian Books in Print 1998

Australian Books in Print 1998
Author: Bowker
Publisher: Bowker-Saur
Total Pages: 888
Release: 1998-04
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781864520156

"...excellent coverage...essential to worldwide bibliographic coverage."--AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL. This comprehensive reference provides current finding & ordering information on more than 75,000 in-print books published in or about Australia, or written by Australian authors, organized by title, author, & keyword. You'll also find brief profiles of more than 7,000 publishers & distributors whose titles are represented, as well as information on trade associations, local agents of overseas publishers, literary awards, & more. From D.W. Thorpe.