num_pages: 1162
description: "Robinson's diary record of his travels across Van Diemen's Land interacting with the Indigenous peoples and persuading them to be relocated to offshore islands."--Provided by publisher."This edition of Friendly Mission, co-published by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and Quintus Publishing, incorporates the corrections and additions that appeared in the 1971 supplement, together with additional corrections collated by Plomley over subsequent years. Further, this edition includes Plomley's revised version of "The Bruny Island mission, 1829" which corrects previous omissions and adds extra material such as the journal of Robinson's clerk, Charles Sterling. There is also a comprehensive new index."--Foreword.
language: English
title: Friendly Mission: the Tasmanian journals and papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829-1834
publisher: Quintus Publishing