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Publicado por Adelaide; The Pioneers Association of South Australia Inc.; 2001., 2001
Librería: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xiv, 258; illustrated endpapers, coloured frontispiece, text with numerous coloured and b/w. illustrations, index, bound in original blue papered boards, title lettered in white on spine and upper board, dustjacket, fine copy. The book is an edited collection of articles published by the Pioneers Association of South Australia over the past 70 years. The articles cover the early years of exploration, leading to the decision to form the colony of South Australia. It then looks at the reasons why people emigrated, together with the hardships they faced on the long voyages of the pioneering ships. The later chapters cover early impressions of Adelaide and the development of the town, as well as the spread of settlement into rural South Australia.