Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia

Collins, Sydney, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 214 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen. After their military defeat in 1745 the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout of another people, the Kurnai of Gippsland in south-eastern Australia. And prominent among those who did the routing were emigrant Highlanders like the explorer Angus McMillan. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Australian History; Australia; 19th century; ISBN: 0002173220. ISBN/EAN: 9780002173223. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8487. . 9780002173223