| Description |
xvi, 324 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: PART ONE The Early Years -- 1 English Background 5 -- 2 A Surveyor's Training 11 -- 3 The Cape of Good Hope 21 -- PART Two New South Wales -- 4 ANew Start 1823 35 -- 5 Through the Blue Mountains on Bell's Line of Road 41 -- 6 From the Hawkesbury to the Shoalhaven 47 -- 7 The Puzzle of Moreton Bay 55 -- 8 A Year Out West, around Bathurst and Mudgee 1825 71 -- 9 Men of the West 83 -- 10 'They thought I was humbugging them!' 91 -- 11 A Visit to Recluse 99 -- 12 Enter Major Mitchell 111 -- 13 Major Mitchell's Map 1828-1834 117 -- 14 The Families Arrive: Hoddles and Caswells 123 -- 15 News from London 127 -- 16 Concerning Susan, Mary and Sarah 131 -- 17 'En route to Kiama (Illawarra) from Bong Bong' 135 -- 18 Kangaroo Valley 141 -- 19 'Canberry' on the Limestone Plains 147 -- 20 Years on the Plains 1833-1836 157 -- 21 The Hunter Valley and the Call to Port Phillip 165 -- PART THREE Melbourne and the Port Phillip District, -- later Victoria -- 22 A Chapter on Port Phillip 171 -- 23 The Melbourne Grid 1837 181 -- 24 The First Melbourne Land Sale 1837 189 -- 25 Problems and Progress 197 -- 26 Respite at Stroud 1840 209 -- 27 Concluding Hoddle's A Chapter on Port Phillip 215 -- 28 The 1840s-Decade of Extremes 223 -- 29 The Yarra River Survey 1844 -1845 241 -- 30 Emily's Letters: Caswell Finale 253 -- 31 Separation, Gold, Surveyor General 261 -- 32 The Later Years 267 -- 33 'A fine, fat case!' 277 -- 34 Robert Hoddle, Surveyor, Artist, Diarist-His Heritage 281 |
| Summary |
Autobiography of surveyor Robert Hoddle, including substantial extracts from Hoddle's own diary and other writings; mention of Aboriginal guides; relationships with Aboriginal people; Hoddle's observations about Aboriginal people; discusses depictions of Aboriginal people in Hoddle's art; reproductions of drawings of bora rings and of ceremonial trees in one of the rings; Aboriginal figures included in some of the reproductions of Hoddle's art |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-310) and index |
| Subject |
Hoddle, Robert, 1794-1881.
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Surveyors -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
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Surveyors -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Biography.
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City planners -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2005362370 |
| ISBN |
0949600458 |
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094960044X paperback |
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