The Bedside Book of Colonial Doings - A Marvellous Australian Miscellany of Fascinating Events, Facts and Figures

First published in 1879 as `A Dictionary of Dates', this book is a facsimile edition of the original, slightly abridged to allow for the inclusion of copious illustration, making this fascinating and useful reference available to a new audience. The book is a source of amazing, arcane, amusing and accurately detailed information, from the first game of football placed in Australia to the prize winners in a poetry competition. From the discovery and exploration of the country to the first marriage ceremony in Melbourne. From art exhibitions and aquatic sports, mining and meteorology, to railways and rebellions, swindlers and shipwrecks. All the fascinating detail of social, political, cultural, industrial and historical life is painstakingly recorded...