AUSTRALIANA

AS NEW! First Edition, pp. 363 illusts. In this marvelous collection Douglas Sellick brings to life the true stories of twenty women who, during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, traveled to and around Australia. From Mary Ann Parker who embarked with her husband on a voyage to the coast of New Holland, to Marian Ellis Rowan who traveled the colonial wilds dressed in the height of Victorian fashion, to Amy Johnson who flew solo from London to Darwin in 1930, these tales of hardship, adventure and romance will seduce and enthrall. #0218/0518/0121/190923

• Women travelers — Australia
• Women travelers — New Zealand
• Australia — Description and travel
• New Zealand — Description and travel

ISBN 10: 1863683941 ISBN 13: 9781863683944 Adelaide aerodrome Alice Springs arrived Australia beautiful birds Bishopsbourne boat Brisbane buggy bullocks Bush called camels camp Captain carriage carried cattlecoast comfortable Creek Darwin deck dinner dray dress early engine England everything friends garden Government House Governor gum trees harbour head hill horses husband Island journeyKatherine River kind Lady land lived looked lovely luggage Macumba magneto Melbourne miles morning Mount Morgan natives never night Northern Territoryo’clock Oodnadatta party passed passengers petrol Port Port Darwin pretty Queensland railway reached river road Rockhampton round sailed sailors seemed sent servantsship shore side Sourabaya South South Australia South Wales station steamer Sydney telegraph things told took Topsy train travelling verandah vessel voyage weather Western Australia wind woman women