Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837) (1904). This book, "Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland", by Constance Campbell Petrie, Tom Petrie, is a replication of a book originally published before 1904. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837) (1904). This book, "Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland", by Constance Campbell Petrie, Tom Petrie, is a replication of a book originally published before 1904. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. xvi, 323 pp. frontis portrait +15 bw plates, folding plan at rear. Original green cloth in jacket. Jacket toned, darkened on spine, 3cm tear at bottom of rear flap fold endpapers toned, some minor foxing. Very scarce with jacket. Important early source book for Queensland history with much on aborigines and vividly describing life in the Moreton Bay penal colony from the 1830s. Petrie (1831-1910) arrived in Queensland in 1837. Later he accompanied, or acted as messenger, for many early explorations and was intimately acquainted with the local aborigines, on whom he was considered an expert.
