David Collins: A Colonial Life

John Currey

ISBN 10: 0522849261 / ISBN 13: 9780522849264

Published by Miegunyah Press, Carlton South, Victoria. AUST, 2000

About this Item

xiv, 392pp., b/w illustrations, appendix, notes, commentary, sources, index. slightly rolled. Spotted top edge else clean and bright. Dustjacket lightly rubbed with minor creasing to spine ends.(BH) 7/24.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1720842033741

Bibliographic Details

• Title: David Collins: A Colonial Life
• Publisher: Miegunyah Press, Carlton South, Victoria. AUST
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0522849261
• ISBN 13: 9780522849264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Australian History/Politics
  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

The life of David Collins - judge, historian and governor - reflects the story of the European settlement of Australia. In a remarkable trio of events, Collins was one of the founders of Sydney in 1788, began the first European settlement in Victoria in 1803, and founded Hobart Town the following year. The journal he began on the First Fleet grew into the first substantial history of New South Wales, and his private letters give a rare insight into the early colonial world. Collins was a father-figure to his admirers, a tyrant to his detractors. His interest in the Aboriginal people was strongly humanitarian. This substantial and comprehensive biography is the first and only full-length account of David Collins's life. 'New' material on the early colonial period of Australia is rare, and the previously unpublished documents in David Collins - including letters written from the First Fleet - will create great interest.

About the Author

John Currey has had a long and distinguished career as an author, editor and publisher. He has also been volume editor of a number of books, including David Collin's Account of a Voyage, and the three-volume Records of the Port Phillip Expedition.