Robert Dawson

The Present State of Australia; a Description of the Country, Its Advantages and Prospects, with Reference to Emigration: and a Particular Account of the Robert Dawson

Publisher Marketing: Title: The Present State of Australia; a description of the country, its advantages and prospects, with reference to emigration: and a particular account of the manners, customs and condition of its aboriginal inhabitants. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & the PACIFIC collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection offers titles providing historical context for modern day Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Pacific Islands (collectively, Oceania). It includes studies of their relationship to British colonial heritage, Trans-Tasman history, resistance to colonization, and histories of sailors, traders, missionaries, and adventurers. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Dawson, Robert; 1831. xix. 464 p.; 8 . 10491.e.3. Contributor Bio:  Dawson, Robert Robert MacGregor Dawson was a Canadian political scientist and academic. He is best known as the author of the 1947 textbook, The Government of Canada.