Commandant of Solitude. The Journals of Captain Collet Barker, 1828-1831
Carlton, Melbourne University Press at the Miegunya Press, 1992.
Large octavo, xviii, 431 pages with 8 maps plus 36 plates (13 in colour).
Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.
The journals cover Barker's period of command of 'the isolated settlement at Raffles Bay (near modern Darwin) for just over a year and ... King George Sound (Albany)', ending with his untimely death at the mouth of the Murray River. Provenance: the anthropologist Peter Sutton, with his contemporary ownership signature. Number 8 in the Miegunya Press Series.
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