Venus in Transit: Australia’s Women Travellers, 1788-1930

AUSTRALIANA

AS NEW! First Edition, pp. 363 illusts. In this marvelous collection Douglas Sellick brings to life the true stories of twenty women who, during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, traveled to and around Australia. From Mary Ann Parker who embarked with her husband on a voyage to the coast of New Holland, to Marian Ellis Rowan who traveled the colonial wilds dressed in the height of Victorian fashion, to Amy Johnson who flew solo from London to Darwin in 1930, these tales of hardship, adventure and romance will seduce and enthrall. #0218/0518/0121/190923

• Women travelers — Australia
• Women travelers — New Zealand
• Australia — Description and travel
• New Zealand — Description and travel

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