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    • Language: English

      Published by Australian Scholarly Publishing in association with the State Library of Victoria., North Melbourne, 2020

      1921509147 / 9781921509148

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      Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Octavo Size. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with black & white plates. xv, 331pp. In 1839 Miss Anne Drysdale sailed from Scotland to Port Phillip. She was 47 years old and determined to be a sheep farmer. She soon took up land near Geelong and formed a partnership with another enterprising woman, Caroline Newcomb. They established a successful pastoral business and for 13 years lived and worked together on their properties. Their daily life was recorded in Anne's diaries providing a rare, detailed account of domestic and farming life in 1840's. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.