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Issue Details: First known date: 1841... 1841 Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government
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Notes

  • The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal (20 August 1842): 3 reprints a letter, originally published in the Times (London) by W. A. B. dated 'Stockton-on -Tees, Dec 29, 1841' in which Grey's remarks on the Glenelg River are discussed. This letter also refers to the 'editorial remarks of the 24th [December 1841], on Capt. Grey's travels...' published in the Times (London).

Affiliation Notes

  • 19th-Century Australian Travel Writing

    George Grey, Esq. (1812-1898) was Governor of South Australia and Late Captain of the Eighty-Third Regiment, explorer, governor and politician, and author of Vocabulary of the Dialects spoken by the Aboriginal Races of South-Western Australia (1839). He dedicated his two volume Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery to Lord Glenelg (Baron Charles Grant). The journals were the result of Grey's travels and his residence in the western parts of Australia between 1837 and 1840. The work was prefaced with the statement that the areas traversed were previously "unknown to the European traveller, and probably never before trodden by the foot of civilized man" (v). Beginning in England, Grey chronicled his journey to Australia via the Cape of Good Hope. Once in Australia, he focused on natural history, Aboriginal peoples, and his travels through Southern and Western Australia in a day to day diary format. He also included scientific, geographical, ethnographic and zoological information and concluded with an appendix of botanical and zoological drawings and information.

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The Nineteenth-Century Australian Inland Exploration Journal and Pleasurable Instruction Kerry Heckenberg , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia Bulletin , vol. 28 no. 1-2 2004; (p. 93-110)
Origins of Modernism in the Great Western Desert David Brooks , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Identity, Ethos & Ethnicity : Australia and India 2010; (p. 16-26)
Governor Grey's Expeditions 1842 single work criticism
— Appears in: The South Australian Magazine , September vol. 1 no. 12 1842; (p. 441-448)
Comments on the first volume of Grey's Journals. The article includes lengthy quotes from the work.
Colonial Adventure Novels Ken Gelder , Rachael Weaver , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023;
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