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Issue Details: First known date: 1854... 1854 A Year in Tasmania : Including Some Months' Residence in the Capital with a Descriptive Tour through the Island, from Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head and a Short Notice of the Colony in 1853
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Affiliation Notes

  • Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing

    Captain Henry Butler Stoney (1816-1894) was a British army officer with the 99th Regiment. Published anonymously in 1854, A Year in Tasmania was revised and published under his name in 1856, titled A Residence in Tasmania: With a Descriptive Tour Through the Island, from Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head, with the cover title Travels in Tasmania: Showing the Advantages Offered by this Colony as a Field for Emigration. This later edition saw Stoney's move to his residence in Tasmania, and was characterised by its numerous illustrations and improved printing quality. In both prefaces Stoney noted that Tasmania was saddled with a "bad name" in the Mother Country, and his words an attempt to remedy this vogue against Van Diemen's Land and combat the lack of knowledge in England about the colony. Stoney described Tasmania as the most lovely island in the world, illustrating the colony in extensive detail and with romantic, picturesque language, including particular reference to the cities and towns of the island, including Port Arthur, Maria Island, New Norfolk, Launceston and Circular Head. Describing the utopic beauty of Hobart and its harbour, the work was a pure statement of the attractiveness of the colony, as opposed to a more practical or political text. Stoney also wrote Victoria: With a Description of its Principal Cities (1856) and Taranaki: A Tale of the War (1861).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,: W. Fletcher , 1854 .
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      Link: 21962166Full text document Sighted: 03/06/2021
      Extent: iv, 326,[1]leaf of platep.
      Description: illus., map
      Note/s:
      • Ferguson no. 16294

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Tasmania Morris Miller Library
      Local Id: DU 187 .S76 1854

      Holdings

      Held at: Adelaide University Barr Smith Library
      Location: Rare Books & Manuscripts
      Local Id: 919.46 S88 1854

      Holdings

      Held at: State Library of Tasmania State Library of Tasmania Launceston Reference Library
      Local Id: LSC.PLR 919.46 STO

      Holdings

      Held at: Monash University Monash University Library Sir Louis Matheson Library
      Location: Rare General Collection: Special Collections Reading Room, Matheson
      Local Id: 919.46 S881Y

      Holdings

      Held at: National Library of Australia
      Location: Main Reading Room
      Local Id: NL 919.46 STO

      Holdings

      Held at: Newcastle Region Libraries Newcastle Library
      Location: Information & Research Centre
      Local Id: RS919.46/YEA/1.1A

      Holdings

      Held at: Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Library
      Local Id: rg 994.6 T a

      Holdings

      Held at: State Library of Victoria
      Local Id: CC 919.46 ST7Y

      Holdings

      Held at: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
      Local Id: DSM/986/39A1
Alternative title: A Residence in Tasmania : With a Descriptive Tour Through the Island from Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Smith, Elder ,
      1856 .
      Extent: 311,[10]leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus., map
      Note/s:
      • Author's Preface. Cork, July 1856. (v-vi).
      • Ferguson no. 16295.
      • Dedication: To the Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, M.P., Secretary of State for the Colonies, whose extensive acquirements and devotion to his country's welfare have been conspicuously shewn in his earnest efforts to promote the advancement of the British colonies, now rising into greatness; this work is (with permission) respectfully dedicated, by his obliged and humble servant, the Author.
      • This edition has had statistics and factual information updated to 1856. For example it indicates that Sir H. Fox Young was Governor in 1855 and a new constitution proclaimed (8, 143).
Last amended 3 Jun 2021 13:41:00
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