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Issue Details: First known date: 1888... 1888 Antipodean Notes Collected on a Nine Months' Tour Round the World
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Affiliation Notes

  • 19th-Century Australian Travel Writing

    French-British civil engineer and writer Elim Henry D'Avigdor (1841-1895) wrote Antipodean Notes Collected on a Nine Months' Tour Round the World pseudonym "the Wanderer". It is a travel narrative with prose that is novelistic in form and written in the first person. Although he writes of his experiences in Adelaide and Melbourne, the majority of his Antipodean Notes are set in New Zealand. D'Avigdor commented on the cost and quality of fruit and vegetables, the weather, the streets, and also presented his opinion on James Froude and his Oceana (1886). D'Avigdor suggests that Froude's status as an eminent and popular historian, with connections to colonial elites, heavily influenced the vision of the colonies he received and then published, and is particularly critical of Froude's negative comments about New Zealand. D'Avigdor wrote for the Pall Mall Gazette (often under his pseudonym) and published many works including Fair Diana (1884), Notes on the Caucasus (1883), and A Loose Rein (1887).

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      England,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington ,
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      Held at: Adelaide University Barr Smith Library
      Local Id: 919.4 D258

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      Held at: Flinders University of South Australia
      Local Id: 919.4 D258a

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      Held at: State Library of Tasmania State Library of Tasmania
      Local Id: TL 919.403 WAN

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      Held at: National Library of Australia
      Local Id: NL 919.31 DAV

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      Held at: Newcastle Region Libraries Newcastle Library
      Local Id: S919.31/DAV/1.1A

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      Held at: Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Library
      Local Id: rg 910.4 a 1888

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      Held at: State Library of Victoria
      Local Id: SLT 919.4 D2897A

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      Held at: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
      Local Id: DSM/987/D

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      Held at: State Library of Queensland State Library of QLD
      Local Id: RB 993.1 1888

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      Held at: State Library of South Australia State Library of SA
      Local Id: 994.7T

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      Held at: University of Melbourne The University Library
      Local Id: 919.31 D258

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      Held at: University of Sydney The University of Sydney Library
      Local Id: General 919.403 8
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