Digging, Squatting and Pioneering Life in The Northern Territory of South Australia
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887. First edition. Octavo, original yellow cloth boards with gilt-stamped lettering and floral decoration, dec endpapers, colour folding map, pp xi, 368. Previous owner's inscription halftitle page and title page (both dated Darwin 1912). Several small spots of ink pp 152, 153. Very occasional pencil line in margin. The backstrip has been professionally restored, with the original decorated cloth relaid over matching new cloth. Some foxing. Very good condition.
Harriet Daly (nee Douglas) accompanied her father William Bloomfield Douglas when he was appointed Government Resident of the Northern Territory in 1870: she would have been about sixteen at the time. Her book is an engaging account of her time there and the history of the settlement, recounting her own experiences and concluding with research from newspaper articles and official reports. (She later became a London correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald.) The book includes the original folding colour map of "South Australia", which of course encompassed the Northern Territory at the time. An important book, uncommon and collectable. Item #106382
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