Backhouse and Walker
Subtitle: a Quaker view of the Australian colonies, 1832-1838
By: William Nicolle Oats.
Publisher: Blubber Head Press in association with the Australian Yearly Meeting Religious Society of Friends
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Sandy Bay, Tasmania
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Backhouse, James, 1794-1869.; Walker, George Washington, 1800-1859.; Quakers -- Australia -- Biography.; Missionaries -- Australia -- Biography.; Missionaries -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Society of Friends -- Missions -- Australia.; Missions -- Australia.; Australia -- Social conditions.
Description: James Backhouse and George Washington Walker, "sent to the Australian colonies by the London Society of Friends, the pair travelled to all major centres and many isolated settlements between 1832 and 1838, everywhere pursuing their objectives of investigating and reporting to authorities on the penal system and on the treatment of aborigines, promoting the cause of temperance and preaching to the scattered settlers both bond and free.".
Notes: Bibliography: p. 71-73.
Limited edition of 300 copies.
Includes index.