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According to the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature:
Adventures on a Journey to New Holland gives only a vague picture of the Australian colony. The characteristic features of Australian fauna and flora, staples in early English novels about the colony, are seldom mentioned; the colony itself appears to have been chosen solely because it provided a contrast between the natural virgin setting and its depraved convict inhabitants and was a suitable site for the confrontation between the protagonists, Rudolph, the French ex-revolutionary, and Belton, the Welsh ex-revolutionary, over the whole question of revolution itself.
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Claimed to be the first novel to have an Australian setting, written by Therese Huber in 1793.
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Abentheur auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland was apparently serialised in German woman's magazine Flora from 1793 to 1794 (unsighted).
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The Armchair Fictionists : Eurocentric Visions of the South Land (1794-1843)
1990
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criticism
— Appears in: Antipodean Encounters : Australia and the German Literary Imagination 1754-1918 1990; (p. 23-46) -
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1968
single work
review
— Appears in: Historical Studies , vol. 13 no. 1968; (p. 281-282)
— Review of Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland 1801 single work novel -
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1966
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 July 1966; (p. 17)
— Review of Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland 1801 single work novel -
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1966
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 6 August 1966; (p. 8)
— Review of Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland 1801 single work novel -
Untitled
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 September 1966; (p. 14)
— Review of Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland 1801 single work novel
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Another First [Note]
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries , vol. 1 no. 4 (2nd Series) 1966; (p. 34-35)
— Review of Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland 1801 single work novel -
Untitled
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September vol. 5 no. 11 1966; (p. 224)
— Review of Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland 1801 single work novel -
Untitled
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 September 1966; (p. 14)
— Review of Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland 1801 single work novel -
Untitled
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 6 August 1966; (p. 8)
— Review of Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland 1801 single work novel -
Untitled
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 July 1966; (p. 17)
— Review of Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland 1801 single work novel -
The Armchair Fictionists : Eurocentric Visions of the South Land (1794-1843)
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodean Encounters : Australia and the German Literary Imagination 1754-1918 1990; (p. 23-46)
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