Monteath Peter Editor (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. From Beehive Corner and Bert Flugelman's polished balls in Rundle Mall to the vineyards, churches and cemeteries of the Borassa Valley, tangible signs of South Australia's Germans are everywhere to be seen. The essays gathered here explore the multiple origins, experiences and contributions of Germans in South Australia over some 175 years. Part celebration and part sober assessment, this book helps make sense of South Australia today.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 139 pages. The 40th Anniversary edition. Contents: The Professional Midwife: Adelaide's Destitute Asylum and midwifery in South Australia 1880-1900; 1848 and All That: early South Australia and the Cornish radical tradition; Lois Quarrell: a notable mid-20th century journalist and her impact; Italians in the Civil Alien Coprs in South Australia: the 'fogotten' enemy aliens; The Torrens Island Internment Camp: law, history and the treatment of 'enemy aliens in South Australia in World War One; The First Commercial Wine Vineyard Planted in South Australia; 'Mrs Moore is most energetic and devoted to her work': Bessie Moore 1859-1923, a career public servant; The Afforestation Proposal for Kangaroo Island During World war One; 'Mrs Hillier begs to inform . the public of Adelaide that she has opened a School': education in the early years of settlement in South Australia.…

1st p//b printing ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, card covers (with flaps), black & white drawings, spine minimally faded, edges & inside covers minimally foxed, minor edgewear, owner's written name. 86 pp. The journal of Samuel Smith, a seaman aboard the 'Investigator', under the command of Matthew Flinders, which sailed in 1801 from England to Port Jackson, exploring the unknown south coast of Australia. This is the only below-the-deck account of this historic voyage, hitherto unpublished in full. Flinders then circumnavigated Australia for the first time. Smith then sailed with Flinders on the 'Porpoise', which was shipwrecked off the Queensland coast. Edited with an introduction by Peter Monteath, Flinders University. (Owner's written name: Betty Mason, environmentalist, Annandale resident, Sydney Inner West.).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. 9.21x5.87x0.58 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2011. Octavo, xxii, 449 pages with numerous illustrations. Colour-pictorial card covers; spine and front cover creased; gift inscription on the first page; overall, an excellent copy. 'From Beehive Corner and Bert Flugelman's polished balls in Rundle Mall to the vineyards, churches and cemeteries of the Barossa Valley, tangible signs of South Australia's Germans are everywhere to be seen .Those who came during the colony's first decades mostly spoke a common language, but were divided by differences of country, culture and class. They were farmers from Silesia and Brandenburg, missionaries from Dresden, liberals from Berlin, merchants from Hamburg, miners from the Harz mountains or erudite graduates from some of the best universities in the world . The essays gathered here explore the multiple origins, experiences and contributions of Germans in South Australia over some 175 years' (from the rear cover blurb).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 222 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 262 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 240 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 240 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.