CALEDONIA AUSTRALIS: Scottish highlanders on the frontier of Australia.
Pp. [viii]+214, text illustrations, references, index; small cr. 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, fore-corners worn; Collins, Sydney, 1984. First edition. *After their military defeat at Culloden, the Highlanders of Scotland were displaced from their ancestral lands. 'Emigration was the answer, and increasingly it was to Australia they went... [where] another race was being dispossessed. The Australian Aborigines were becoming objects of pity or contempt. Like the Highlanders, their culture was bound to the land. In the frontier province of Gippsland in south-eastern Australia, it was the Highlanders who broke that bond. Caledonia Australis is the story of the meeting of these two cultures, told largely through the life of the explorer from Skye, Angus McMillan' [wrapper blurb]. Item #172310
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