'Companion book to Castle to Colony by the same author. Adventures and achievements of an Irish Engineer who traveled the world in the second half of the 1800s, during which time he played a significant role in the Japanese Meiji Restoration. Bridges, buildings, tea processing and sugar mill machinery, mining engineering - all were part of the amazingly productive life of Thomas Waters. ' (Publication summary)
Castle to Colony : The Remarkable Life and Times of Lucy Sarah Gray (1840-1879)
Armidale
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Meg Vivers
,
2011
Z1822371
2011
single work
biography
'Castle to Colony tells the story of a nineteenth-century European who saw the Australian landscape and its inhabitants, Black and White, with remarkably fresh eyes. There was liveliness in everything Lucy did, and the people and things she records are lively too. It's a liveliness nicely mirrored in Meg's Vivers' prose.
'But also this is also a woman's story. Of all the depictions of colonial Australia which survive from a woman's point of view, Lucy Gray's is among the richest and best. For that reason alone this book is an enormously valuable addition to out understanding of Australian history.' (Source: Back cover)
