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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Paradise Mislaid : In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay
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'Winner 1998 NSW Premier's Australian History Award. Also shortlisted in the 1998 Kibble and Dobbie Awards, and the 1997 Age Book of the Year selection. "An erudic, beautifully researched work of history which knits together the stories of Paraquay and Australian emigration as a quest for Utopia." Judges' comment - 1998 NSW Premiers Award. In the 1890s a brave band of ordinary Australians sailed out through Sydney Heads, to found a socialist Utopia in South America. Under the charismatic William Lane, over 500 settlers created a "New Australia" in the Paraguayan jungle. Their hopes soon collapsed in turmoil. many, including Mary Gilmore, returned home. Others stayed on wit their families, learning Spanish and the Indian language and becoming part of the culture of their adopted country. These descendants of socialists also endured the longest surviving right-wing dictatorship in the Western hemisphere.' (Publication summary)

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    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 1997 .
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      Extent: ix, 631p.p.
      Description: illus., map, ports., bibl.
      ISBN: 0702226513
      Series: y separately published work icon UQP Paperbacks St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1992- 15893070 1992 series - publisher
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Untapped , 2021 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922730220

Works about this Work

Paraguayan Missions Nicholas Birns , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 13 no. 2 1999; (p. 120)

— Review of Paradise Mislaid : In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay Anne Whitehead , 1997 single work biography
Paradise Mislaid : In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay Anne Whitehead , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Papers , Spring vol. 10 no. 4 1998; (p. 12-24)
Gringos in a Far-Off Utopia Ted Morrisby , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 26 December 1997; (p. 15)

— Review of Paradise Mislaid : In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay Anne Whitehead , 1997 single work biography
Gringos in a Far-Off Utopia Ted Morrisby , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 26 December 1997; (p. 15)

— Review of Paradise Mislaid : In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay Anne Whitehead , 1997 single work biography
Paraguayan Missions Nicholas Birns , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 13 no. 2 1999; (p. 120)

— Review of Paradise Mislaid : In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay Anne Whitehead , 1997 single work biography
Paradise Mislaid : In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay Anne Whitehead , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Papers , Spring vol. 10 no. 4 1998; (p. 12-24)
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