Settlers And Convicts: Recollections Of Sixteen Years' Labour In The Australian Backwoods
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Book: Good
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Pages: Good
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A vivid and candid work of colonial memoir, Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods chronicles the firsthand experiences of a working-class emigrant who spent over a decade and a half navigating the rugged realities of early Australian frontier life. Written under the pseudonym An Emigrant Mechanic, the narrative presents an unvarnished account of the convict transportation system, the brutal demands of bush labor, and the social hierarchies that defined colonial society in the early nineteenth century. The author illustrates the daily struggles of free settlers and assigned convicts alike, offering a ground-level perspective rarely found in the official records or gentlemanly travel accounts of the era. Written with plain-spoken honesty and a working man's sharp eye for injustice, the recollections uncover the tensions between ambition and hardship that shaped the lives of those who built Australia from the ground up. This remarkable primary source remains an invaluable document for anyone seeking to understand the human texture of Australia's colonial past.
Author: An Emigrant Mechanic
Format: Hardback
Published: 1953, Melbourne University Press
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A vivid and candid work of colonial memoir, Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods chronicles the firsthand experiences of a working-class emigrant who spent over a decade and a half navigating the rugged realities of early Australian frontier life. Written under the pseudonym An Emigrant Mechanic, the narrative presents an unvarnished account of the convict transportation system, the brutal demands of bush labor, and the social hierarchies that defined colonial society in the early nineteenth century. The author illustrates the daily struggles of free settlers and assigned convicts alike, offering a ground-level perspective rarely found in the official records or gentlemanly travel accounts of the era. Written with plain-spoken honesty and a working man's sharp eye for injustice, the recollections uncover the tensions between ambition and hardship that shaped the lives of those who built Australia from the ground up. This remarkable primary source remains an invaluable document for anyone seeking to understand the human texture of Australia's colonial past.