Product details

Art.No:

60373

Author / Artist:

Rowcroft, Charles

Title:

Subtitles / Reproduction:

Format grand In-folio

Keyword:

Illustr. Bücher - allgemein

Binding / Picture Size:

OLwd. geprägt

Publisher:

Librairie Nationale, Eugène Ardant

Place of publishing:

Paris

Year of publication:

ca. 1900

Book Details / Size:

4°, 319 S., 41 Abb u. Karten.

Condition:

Min. gebrauchspurig.

Description:

Text franz. Rowcroft (1798-1856) was educated at Eton, after which he went to Hobart Town, Australia, in 1821 and took up a grant of 2,000 acres (8 km ). He returned to England in 1826. In 1843 he published Tales of the Colonies, followed by The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land (heutiges Tasmanien), (1846). Another of his novels, An Emigrant in Search of a Colony (1851), is also connected with Australia.