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In the nineteenth century, only wealthy and leisured westerners could travel. Those who could afford this luxury usually went on a grand tour of Europe, with few travelling to China and Japan. Some who were lucky enough to reach these areas have left rare and fascinating journals and albums where we can see, through their eyes, the world ot the 'Far East' at that time. (See story, p. 3.)

 

July 2003 Volume XIII Number 10

FOR THE LOVE OF TRAVEL: CHINA AND JAPAN THROUGH THE EYES OF A NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCOT

Judy Cannon gains an insight into life in nineteenth-century Asia through the writings of George Robertson Nicoll

JOHNNY DEVLIN: RECOLLECTIONS OF A ROCK ICON

Barry York describes his oral history interview with singer Johnny Devlin, whose pre-eminent place in Australia’s postwar popular cultural history made him an ideal subject for the Library’s Oral History and Folklore Collection

CHARLES HARPUR: FIRST POET AND PHILOSOPHER OF COLONIAL AUSTRALIA

Tim Cornell reveals how the poetry of Charles Harpur is finally receiving the acclaim it deserves

THIS UTOPIAN LAND OF THE PACIFIC: A GLIMPSE INTO THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA'S CANADIANA COLLECTION

Amanda Laugesen describes how the nineteenth-century print culture of the Pacific Northwest helped to shape new nations

TELLING TRAVELLERS' TALES

Ann Nugent reports on the National Library’s two-day conference, Travellers' Tales: Writing about Journeys, Journeys through Writing, which was held in April

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