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Issue Details: First known date: 1850... 1850 Recollections of Sydney, The Capital of New South Wales
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Notes

  • Epigraph: Bring me those days / That rest in Memory's fabric, beautiful / And calm! - come with a tone of magic sweetness, / And make them into life. - E. F. Roberts

Affiliation Notes

  • Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing

    B. C. Peck’s Recollections of Sydney were provided as "an imaginary voyage... a ramble through the streets" of Sydney for those who were not able to there. In order to fulfill his illusion, the work was written in second-person diary form. Peck's narrative detailed his voyage to Sydney, mapping the urban space and its architecture to the reader, while also providing a sketch of the rise and progress of the colony and the Aboriginal community. Although the work gave an imagined tour of Sydney, its conclusion returned the narrative to a more concrete reality in a format that was similar to the emigrant guides written by Peck's contemporaries. It included a detailed and coloured map of Sydney's city centre.

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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      John Mortimer ,
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      Link: U10851Full text document Sighted: 25/03/2021
      Extent: vi, 153p.p.
      Description: tables

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      Held at: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies AIATSIS Library
      Local Id: RB P366.24/R1

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      Held at: National Library of Australia
      Location: Special Collections Reading Room
      Count: 3
      Local Id: FC F5478

      Holdings

      Held at: Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Library
      Local Id: rga 919.441042 P366

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      Held at: State Library of Victoria
      Local Id: CC 919.44 P33

      Holdings

      Held at: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
      Count: 3
      Local Id: 981.1/23A1

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Sydney The University of Sydney Library
      Location: General Ferguson
      Local Id: 5478

Works about this Work

Recollections of Sydney 1850 single work review
— Appears in: The Colonial Magazine and East India Review , August vol. 19 no. 2 1850; (p. 136-142)

— Review of Recollections of Sydney, The Capital of New South Wales B. C. Peck , 1850 single work prose
Recollections of Sydney 1850 single work review
— Appears in: The Colonial Magazine and East India Review , August vol. 19 no. 2 1850; (p. 136-142)

— Review of Recollections of Sydney, The Capital of New South Wales B. C. Peck , 1850 single work prose
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