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My Home in Tasmania : During a Residence of Nine Years

Part of the My Home in Tasmania 2 Volume Set series
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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=merelo

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Cambridge University Press
110802033X / 9781108020336
Paperback / softback
21/10/2010
United Kingdom
300 pages, 9 Halftones, black and white
140 x 216 mm, 380 grams