Research Catalog

Title

David Collins : a colonial life / John Currey.

Author

Currey, John E. B.

Publication

Carlton South, Vic. : Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

xiv, 390 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Collins was one of the founders of Sydney in 1788, began the first European settlement in Victoria in 1803, and founded Hobart Town the following year." "The journal he began on the First Fleet grew into the first substantial history of New South Wales, and his private letters - extensively quoted for the first time in John Currey's fine biography - give a rare insight into the early colonial world."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Miegunyah volumes ; 2nd numbered ser., no. 33

Uniform Title

Miegunyah Press series 2nd ser., no. 33.

Subjects

• Biographies
• 1788-1900
• History
• Australia > History > 1788-1900 > Biography
• Judges > Australia > Biography
• Historians > Australia > Biography
• Governors > Australia > Biography
• Frontier and pioneer life > Australia
• Australia > History > 1788-1851
• Collins, David, 1756-1810

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Servants of their king -- 2. War and confusion -- 3. Voyage to the unknown -- 4. Tranquillity defiled -- 5. Trust and discord -- 6. Letters from home -- 7. Children of nature -- 8. An Outcast of society -- 9. Home with expectations -- 10. Historian of the colony -- 11. In search of a patron -- 12. Bound for Bass's Strait -- 13. A Totally unfit place -- 14. Silence and neglect -- 15. Bigamist and debauchee -- 16. Money, rebellion and rebuke -- 17. An Insult to authority -- 18. Bligh's 'unhandsome conduct' -- 19. A Father to all.

ISBN

0522849261

OCLC

• 47225468
• SCSB-12390952

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library