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Promotion: Towards Mrs Keefe's Farm New Book — NSW & Monaro history Towards Mrs Keefe’s Farm — A title of destination. 424 Pages complete with maps, illustrations, and references. A book of NSW and Monaro history — available only as a commercially produced CD-ROM colour PDF. The book commences with Lieutenant Cook’s charting of the east coast of New Holland in 1770, and outlining decisions behind sending the First Fleet in 1788 to a continent considered terra nullius. It then moves to the arrival in New South Wales of the central character, a 1793 convicted English felon Joseph Wild — first imprisoned in Chester Castle, England, and sentenced to death; a sentence commuted to transportation for life, which brought him to Governor Hunter’s Sydney in 1797. Backgrounds of Joseph Wild’s English Counties of Lancashire and Cheshire are contrasted with that of early European settlement in New South Wales. Much more than a biography, the book journeys through times and events of the Colony to 1850, introducing expeditions and surveys related to the opening up of the country south-west of early Sydney beyond the Nepean River, the discovery of the Monaro, its squatting background, and European movement into these areas of New South Wales. Twelve Appendixes, plus two Glossaries of old and new place names. Joseph Wild’s “life in Australia” is woven through historical events, discoveries, turbulence, and significant persons of his lifetime. Becoming a respected, yet somewhat invisible historical figure, Joseph Wild’s assistance in the emergence of the Colony of New South Wales during its early period of European settlement, is told in detail for the first time. Available from: John S. Trengove, 78 Botha Avenue, Reservoir, Victoria, 3073 (03) 9469 2990 Single copies $26 plus $4 packing and postage within Australia Multiple and Wholesale prices on application 15022015.
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