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Issue Details: First known date: 1892... 1892 Round the Compass in Australia
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Comprises articles published principally in Harper's Weekly and the Sydney Morning Herald as well as some pieces from other English periodicals. Author's preface states: 'The first part of the book is a review of Australian affairs brought up to 1891; the second part is an account of my travels and inquiry not carried beyond the time of their occurrence, and a record of impressions received during the period between 1888 and 1891.'

Notes

  • Dedication: I dedicate this book of travel and inquiry to those who will read it most and think best of it - to my father and mother.

Affiliation Notes

  • Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing

    Gilbert Parker's (Gilbert Horatio George Parker) (1862-1932) was a Canadian novelist, British politician, educator and newspaper editor. His travel narrative of Australia was presented in Round the Compass in Australia. The work is divided into two sections: the first of which, “Glimpses of Australian Life,” presented how Australian was seen by different types of travelers; this section was originally published in Harper's Weekly, The Sydney Morning Herald, and St James's Gazette. The second part is an account of Parker's travels and inquiry, a detailed record of his impressions of all of the Australian colonies excluding Tasmania. This travel narrative was written in an entertaining manner. Parker also wrote numerous fictional works.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Hutchinson ,       1892 .
      Extent: x, 447pp.
      Description: illus., port.
      Note/s:
      • Frontispiece is a portrait of Sir Henry Parkes.
      • Publishers advertisements at back of book.
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: E. W. Cole , 1892 .
      image of person or book cover 4862664480648951217.png
      Link: 21280357Full text document Sighted: 10/03/2021
      Extent: x, 447p.p.
      Description: illus., port.

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Tasmania Morris Miller Library
      Local Id: DU 102. P3 1892

      Holdings

      Held at: Flinders University of South Australia Central Library
      Local Id: 919.4 P239r

      Holdings

      Held at: Monash University Monash University Library Sir Louis Matheson Library
      Location: Special Collections Reading Room
      Local Id: 919.4 P239R

      Holdings

      Held at: Murdoch University Murdoch Campus Library
      Local Id: QX 919.4043 P239 1

      Holdings

      Held at: National Library of Australia
      Location: Main Reading Room
      Local Id: NL 919.4 PAR

      Holdings

      Held at: State Library of Victoria
      Local Id: MC 919.4 P22R

      Holdings

      Held at: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
      Local Id: 980.1/33B1
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— Appears in: Victorian Readers : Sixth Book 1929; (p. 116)
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Works about this Work

'My Head Cook...Appeared in an Evening Dress of Black Net and Silver' : (Re)Viewing Colonial Western Australians through Travellers' Imaginings Cindy Lane , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Melbourne Historical Journal , no. 39 2011; (p. 175-196) 'Did travel writers who observed the white European population in Western Australia in the latter half of the nineteenth century feel that they 'stood [a]mong them but not of them', and to what extent were their ideas preconceived? This article examines how contemporary thought and ideology influenced travellers' attitudes towards white Western Australian society between 1850 and 1914. In witting about the colonists, travellers' observations shaped, and were shaped by, the assumptions, ambitions, and ideologies of the institutions they represented, and those already existing in Western Australian society.' (p. 175)
'My Head Cook...Appeared in an Evening Dress of Black Net and Silver' : (Re)Viewing Colonial Western Australians through Travellers' Imaginings Cindy Lane , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Melbourne Historical Journal , no. 39 2011; (p. 175-196) 'Did travel writers who observed the white European population in Western Australia in the latter half of the nineteenth century feel that they 'stood [a]mong them but not of them', and to what extent were their ideas preconceived? This article examines how contemporary thought and ideology influenced travellers' attitudes towards white Western Australian society between 1850 and 1914. In witting about the colonists, travellers' observations shaped, and were shaped by, the assumptions, ambitions, and ideologies of the institutions they represented, and those already existing in Western Australian society.' (p. 175)
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  • 1888-1891
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