Titre
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888.
Auteur
Favenc, Ernest
Langue
anglais
Éditeur
Meridian, Amsterdam, Holland.
Prix
€ 15,00(Excl. toute livraison)
Détails
1967 gebonden, 474 pp. reprint of 1888. Met prachtige uitvouwkaarten en veel documentatie over de expedities naar het binnenland van Australië in de 18e en 19e eeuw.
Plus d'informations
Favenc's first publication was The Great Austral Plain in 1887. The Last of Six: Tales of the Austral Tropics appeared in 1893, followed by The Secret of the Australian Desert (a short novel) in 1895, Marooned on Australia and The Moccasins of Silence, both in 1896.
Favenc also wrote under the pseudonym of "Dramingo", often for The Queenslander, and was an accomplished pencil sketcher. He also published romances, children's stories and verse as well as several books on exploration, the most extensive being The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888.
On the original launch of this book in 1888 the Sydney, Australia Daily Telegraph reported:
The History of Australian Exploration is an important one and however diverse may have been the aims, ideas and successes of those by whom the work was done,...Ernest Favenc's rather formidable volume...gathers together all those scattered memorials merging it into a unity of a great labour. Favenc was himself an explorer and treats his subject not in a perfunctory way, but as one who feels the wild charm and the magical attraction of the unknown...
Favenc also wrote under the pseudonym of "Dramingo", often for The Queenslander, and was an accomplished pencil sketcher. He also published romances, children's stories and verse as well as several books on exploration, the most extensive being The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888.
On the original launch of this book in 1888 the Sydney, Australia Daily Telegraph reported:
The History of Australian Exploration is an important one and however diverse may have been the aims, ideas and successes of those by whom the work was done,...Ernest Favenc's rather formidable volume...gathers together all those scattered memorials merging it into a unity of a great labour. Favenc was himself an explorer and treats his subject not in a perfunctory way, but as one who feels the wild charm and the magical attraction of the unknown...
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