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Issue Details: First known date: 1898... 1898 A Flower-Hunter in Queensland and New Zealand
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Notes

  • Dedication: To My Sisters, / Whose interest and sympathy / have never failed to help me in my work / I dedicate / this volume of letters.
  • Based on letters Rowan wrote to her husband and friends.

Affiliation Notes

  • Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing

    Marian Ellis Rowan (1848-1922) was an artist, naturalist and explorer. In A Flower-Hunter in Queensland & New Zealand she presents an illustrated travel narrative that chronicles her journey through Queensland and New Zealand, and was dedicated to her sister. As a botanist, Rowan’s text was constructed around her love of flora; it was this interest that transformed Rowan from a flower collector into an explorer, and carried her "into the depths of jungles, to distant lands, to wild mountain districts." Rowan sketched flora and fauna, with many of the wildflowers, birds, insects and butterflies painted by Rowan being recorded for the first time, and many of them were classified and named by the government botanist Sir Ferdinand Mueller. Rowan's exploratory was is reinforced through the illustrations that depict her in adventurous and dangerous settings. Through her engaging narrative, she describes her encounters with the Aboriginal communities, her journey through Queensland and to New Zealand, the excitement and danger of travelling through the Australian colonies. It also included advice to emigrants, and was constructed through epistolary devices.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1898 .
      Link: 21953472Full text document Sighted: 02/06/2021
      Extent: xiii, 272p., [19] leaves of plates (1 folded)p.
      Description: illus. (some col.), map
      Written as: Mrs Rowan.
      Note/s:
      • For circulation in Australia and New Zealand only (appears on title page).
      • Includes preface and index.
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      John Murray ,
      1898 .
      image of person or book cover 8746277409864851125.jpg
      Extent: xiii, 272p.p.
      Written as: Mrs Rowan.
      Note/s:
      • Second Impression (appears on title page); copy sighted at Fryer Library, University of Queensland.
      • Preface by the author (pp. [vii]-viii).
      • Includes index.
      • E. Rowan (appears on spine).

      Holdings

      Held at: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies AIATSIS Library
      Local Id: RB R877.48/F1

      Holdings

      Held at: Australian National University Australian National University Library
      Local Id: QK453.R6

      Holdings

      Held at: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Conservation Resource Centre and Library
      Location: The Mint
      Local Id: Clough RB 919.43 ROW

      Holdings

      Held at: Murdoch University Murdoch Campus Library
      Local Id: QX 581.9943 R877 1

      Holdings

      Held at: National Library of Australia
      Location: Main Reading Room
      Local Id: N 919.4 ROW

      Holdings

      Held at: Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Library
      Local Id: rga 919.43 R877

      Holdings

      Held at: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
      Local Id: 984/39

      Holdings

      Held at: State Library of Queensland State Library of QLD
      Local Id: NAT 919.43 row

      Holdings

      Held at: State Library of South Australia State Library of SA
      Local Id: 994.3 R877

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Newcastle Auchmuty Library
      Local Id: 919.43/22

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Local Id: QK453 .R6 1898

      Holdings

      Held at: University of the Sunshine Coast University of the Sunshine Coast Library
      Local Id: QK453 .R6 1898
    • North Ryde, Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1991 .
      Alternative title: The Flower Hunter : The Adventures in Northern Australia and New Zealand, of Flower Painter Ellis Rowan
      Extent: vii, 216p.p.
      Description: illus. (some col.), map, port.
      ISBN: 9780207170508, 0207170509

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.
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