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Description:Lansdown Media is delighted to announce the publication of "The First Celebrity: Anthony Trollope’s Australasian Odyssey," by the distinguished Australian academic and author Dr. Nigel Starck. Anthony Trollope -- prolific novelist and inveterate traveller -- explored Australia and New Zealand in the 1870s. In completing this odyssey, he became the first celebrity in popular culture to visit the Australasian colonies. His memoir inspired by those travels (Australia and New Zealand) was described by The Times as "the best account" of those lands "yet published."Now, to mark the 1815 bicentenary of Trollope's birth, the Australian author Nigel Starck reveals the full story: the mix of acclamation and condemnation that Anthony Trollope provoked; his encounters with gold prospectors, the Aborigines of Australia and the Maori of New Zealand, pioneers, and convicts; his constant battles with the colonial press; the son whose life as a sheep farmer inspired a novel; and the ancient baronetcy inherited by Trollope's Australian descendants after misadventure and misfortune elsewhere in the extended family.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The First Celebrity: Anthony Trollope's Australasian Odyssey. To get started finding The First Celebrity: Anthony Trollope's Australasian Odyssey, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 192

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Lansdown Media

Release: 2014

ISBN: 095735701X

Description: Lansdown Media is delighted to announce the publication of "The First Celebrity: Anthony Trollope’s Australasian Odyssey," by the distinguished Australian academic and author Dr. Nigel Starck. Anthony Trollope -- prolific novelist and inveterate traveller -- explored Australia and New Zealand in the 1870s. In completing this odyssey, he became the first celebrity in popular culture to visit the Australasian colonies. His memoir inspired by those travels (Australia and New Zealand) was described by The Times as "the best account" of those lands "yet published."Now, to mark the 1815 bicentenary of Trollope's birth, the Australian author Nigel Starck reveals the full story: the mix of acclamation and condemnation that Anthony Trollope provoked; his encounters with gold prospectors, the Aborigines of Australia and the Maori of New Zealand, pioneers, and convicts; his constant battles with the colonial press; the son whose life as a sheep farmer inspired a novel; and the ancient baronetcy inherited by Trollope's Australian descendants after misadventure and misfortune elsewhere in the extended family.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The First Celebrity: Anthony Trollope's Australasian Odyssey. To get started finding The First Celebrity: Anthony Trollope's Australasian Odyssey, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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