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Replica of the HM Bark Endeavour, Darling Harbour, Sydney, 1995
Photograph by Loui Seselja
From the Pictorial Collection

 

December 1996 Volume VII Number 3

DIGGING INTO HISTORY

Australia’s Timeless Gardens, a book just published by the National Library, grew from author Judy Baskin’s conviction that the documentary records of the Library’s specialist collections would yield a wealth of material on the history of Australia’s domestic gardens. Kate Fortune reports

AN OCEAN OF INSTRUCTION AND ENJOYMENT

C.C. Macknight introduces us to the Hakluyt Society and its collection of published volumes chronicling voyages, travels and other geographical material of the past

CHARTING THE VOYAGE OF THE ENDEAVOUR JOURNAL

he sale of the Endeavour journal in 1923 attracted buyers from around the world. Annette Healy charts the unusual course of this precious manuscript from the hands of Captain James Cook to the National Library’s strongroom

THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES?

In October, librarians and information specialists gathered in Melbourne to mark 100 years of professional achievement and solidarity at the 1996 biennial conference of the Australian Library and Information Association. John Thompson reports

THE CAPTAIN’s WIFE STOWS AWAY

A Woman of Courage, recently published by the National Library, presents the first complete English translation of the journal of Rose de Freycinet, a 22-year-old French woman who stowed away on a dangerous three-year sea voyage in the early 1800s. Professor Serge Rivière , who translated the work, describes a courageous woman and her remarkable story

FRIENDS

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

NLA SHOP

Calendars and diaries are just some of the great Australian products the National Library Shop has to offer this Christmas

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