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Contemporary Accounts (to 1900)

Australia

Sydney Gazette & New South Wales Advertiser. [1803-1822]
Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter. [1816-1818]

Personal Accounts: NSW

ATKINSON, James. An Account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in New South Wales. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1975 [facsimile edition]. First published London: J. Cross, 1826.

BELLINGSHAUSEN, Faddei Faddeevich. The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas, 1819-1821. (ed.) Frank Debenham. [Nendeln/Liechtenstein]: Kraus Reprint, c1967.
[Reprint of the Hakluyt Society's original 1945 ed.]

The Evidence to the Bigge Reports; New South Wales under Governor Macquarie. Selected and edited by John Ritchie. Melbourne: Heinemann, 1971. [2 vols].

FIELD, Barron. Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales: by various hands ... together with other papers on the aborigines, the geology, the botany, the timber, the astronomy and the meteorology of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. London: J. Murray, 1825.

FREYCINET, Louis de. Voyage Autour du Monde. English. Selections. Reflections on New South Wales, 1788-1839. Potts Point, N.S.W.: Hordern House, 2001.
[Translated into English for the first time from the original publication of Freycinet's Voyage Autour du Monde (Paris, 1824-1844) by Thomas Cullity, assisted by Katharine Pratt and Jean and Bernice Pasquier].

FREYCINET, Rose Marie de. Campagne de l'Uranie (1817-1820). English. A Woman of Courage: the journal of Rose de Freycinet on her voyage around the world 1817-1820. Translated and edited by Marc Serge Rivieire. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1996.

LANG, John Dunmore. An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales: both as a penal settlement and as a British colony. London: A.J. Valpy, 1837.

OXLEY, John. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales undertaken by order of the British Government in the years 1817-18. London: Murray, 1820.

SLATER, John. A Description of Sydney, Parramatta, Newcastle, &c. Settlements in New South Wales with Some Account of the Manners and Employment of the Convicts in a Letter from John Slater, To his Wife in Nottingham, Published for the Benefit of his Wife and Four Children. Bridlesmith-Gate: Sutton and Son, 1819.

WENTWORTH, William Charles. Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales, and its dependent settlements in Van Diemen's Land ... Adelaide: Griffin Press, 1979. [orig. publ. in 1819].

Personal Accounts: Van Diemen's Land

EVANS, George William. A Geographical, Historical, and Topographical Description of Van Diemen's Land: with important hints to emigrants, and useful information respecting the application for grants of land ; together with a list of the most necessary articles for persons to take out, embellished by a correct view of Hobart Town by George William Evans; to which are added, an abstract from the general muster-books for the years 1819 and 1820, and a list of the civil establishment. London: J. Souter, 1822.

DIXON, James. Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land in the ship 'Skelton', during the year 1820: with observations on the state of these colonies and a variety of information calculated to be useful to emigrants by James Dixon. With an appendix containing Governor McQuarie's report regarding Van Dieman's Land, tables of the population, list of articles suitable for exportation, &c. &c. Edinburgh: John Anderson, 1822.

JEFFREYS Charles. Van Dieman's Land: geographical and descriptive delineations of the island of Van Dieman's Land by Ch. Jeffreys. London: J.M. Richardson, 1820.

KNOPWOOD, Robert. The Diary of the Reverend Robert Knopwood, 1803-1838: first chaplain of Van Diemen's Land. [ed]. Mary Nicholls. Launceston: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1977.

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