Duyker Edward Editor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Melbourne University Press, 1995. Hardcover (16 x 24 cm), 129 pages, b&w illustrations. ISBN: 0522846521. The book and dust jacket (dj) are in Very Good condition. Full bound brown boards with gold lettering along spine. Bumped, rubbed. Slanted spine. Inscription and blacked-out marking on front free paper. The dj is scuffed, scratched. Creased, chipped with a very small closed tear at rear bottom edg. Weight (before packaging): 450g. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 129pp, notes, few bw ills. Dark green cloth in jacket. Very light foxing to top edge. Emily Skinner not only kept a shipboard journal on her voyage to Australia in 1854, but later recorded her reminiscences of a colourful life as a gold miner's wife. Her impressions of a young Melbourne are follwoed by her recollections of what is now Beechworth and the surrounding goldfields of the Ovens Valley. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. The cover has a little wear, with light foxing on the cover. 106 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Hardback large octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, minor edgewear jacket, faint foxing top edge, base spine & bottom edge slightly rubbed, small sticker mark. 128 pp. The recollections of Emily Skinner who emigrated from Britain to Australia in 1854. Emily kept a ship-board journal - the story of her trip from Britain to the new. She later recorded her reminiscences of a colourful life as a miner's wife. This book is published for the first time, and is her account of a voyage half-way around the world to marry her sweetheart. Emily evokes the wild storms, sea sickness, the malaise and boredom, the gossip and intrigue. Emily's impression of a young Melbourne are revealed, as well as her recollections of what is now the town of Beechworth and the surrounding goldfields, and the Ovens and Buckland valleys. Emily's vivid descriptions contrast with the dull realities in her workday life - cooking, washing, childminding - with the wild dreams of the miners. This is a refreshing and energetic story of a pioneering life that is tough and rigorous, but always embraced by Emily Skinner. She is a joy to know through her wonderful memoir (edited by Edward Duyker).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly tail edge. Mark on top front endpage and half-title page. Scratch from price sticker removal on front endpage, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Tear to top edge front cover. Dust jacket is now enclosed in protective covering. Emily Skinner emigrated from Britain to Australia in 1854. Not only did she keep a shipboard journal, but she later recorded her reminiscences of a colourful life as a miner's wife. She gives her impressions of the young town of Melbourne, as well as her recollections of what is now the town of Beechworth and the surrounding goldfields of the Ovens and Buckland valleys. Her simple joy at the strangeness and novelty of the young colony is evident as she brings to life the raw energy of the 'rough and ready' goldmining settlements.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed inscribed by Duyker. Near fine copy. This book may require a freight adjustment. by author.

1st Ed. XIV, 106 PP with 15 b/w illustrations. Pictorial hard cover with light soiling, otherwise a fine copy. 24.4 x 16.8. Transcription & translation into English of the journal extracts from the first two European expeditions to Tasmania: the Dutch with Tasman & the French with Marion Dufresne, respectively in 1642 & 1772. …

1st edition, limited to 1250 copies. XLIV, 392, (2) PP with 7 maps, plus 16 pages with 20 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Scarce. 24.3 x 16.5. "In 1791 Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux sailed with two ships from France to search for his compatriot, the explorer La Pérouse, who was missing in the Pacific".…