With introduction by Dr Margaret Bradstock.
Widely and positively reviewed at the time of publication in 1903, Ada Cambridge's incisive and moving autobiography, Thirty Years in Australia, now re-emerges in a modern new edition. Enthusiasts and cultural historians alike will welcome the reappearance of this lively and significant volume.
Includes an updated introduction by Dr Margaret Bradstock, and the introduction to the 1989 edition by Dr Margaret Bradstock and Dr Louise Wakeling.
Ada Cambridge (1844-1926) was an English-born Australian writer, who published more than twenty-five works of fiction, as well as three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.
Acknowledgements
New introduction
Margaret Bradstock
Introduction
Louise Wakeling and Margaret Bradstock
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‘Isle of beauty, fare thee well’
- Australia Felix
- The bush
- The first home
- Dik
- The second home
- The third home
- The Murray journey
- Local colour
- The fourth home
- The fifth home
- The sixth home
- The boom
- The seventh home
- Toby
- The great strike
- Over the border
- The end of bush life
- The eighth home
- Conclusion
Size: 210 × 148 mm
244 pages
4 b&w illustrations
Copyright: © 2006
ISBN: 9781920898212
Publication: 01 Jan 2006
Series: SUP Classics