Title The new Australia / Edmond Marin la Meslee ; translated and edited with a critical introduction by Russel Ward

Published London ; Melbourne : Heinemann, 1973

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Description xxvii, 222 pages : plates ; 23 cm Contents From Melbourne to Brisbane -- A journey to the Cobar Cooper Mines to the Darling River -- Geographical, political and statistical description Summary Record of a voyage through Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland in Australia by Edmond Marie Marin la Meslée (died 1893), member of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Meslée emigrated to Australia from France in 1876 and joined the New South Wales Department of Lands and the Surveyor-General's Office in 1878. In 1883 he founded the Geographical Society of Australia. During his journey Marin la Meslée visited amongst others the copper mines at Cobar and the coal mines at Lithgow Notes Australia. Description & travel. Early works, 1883 (ANB/PRECIS SIN 600156133) Australia. Social life. Early works, 1883 (ANB/PRECIS SIN 600156141) SUBJECT Australia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009579 Australia -- Description and travel http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009579 -- 1883 Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- 1851-1891 Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- 1851-1901 Author Ward, Russel, 1914-1995, translator ISBN 0435328956

Other Titles Australie nouvelle. English

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