Author : Louisa Anne Meredith
Release : 2010
Genre : Tasmania
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My Home in Tasmania - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Home in Tasmania write by Louisa Anne Meredith. This book was released on 2010. My Home in Tasmania available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.