Peter Beveridge (1829-1885): Newspaper correspondence and select publications by Ian D Clark (Second Hand Book)

SECOND-HAND BOOK

This book publishes the newspaper articles and letters and select publications of Peter Beveridge (1829-1885), renowned Victorian squatter and author, who was born on the 14th of June 1829 in Dunferline, Fife, Scotland. In 1839, he emigrated with his parents, Andrew and Margaret Beveridge (nee Spratt), and his siblings to the Port Philip district (now Victoria), Australia. He was based at Tyntynder Station, near Swan Hill, from 1845 until 1868, when he moved to Green Hills, French Island. He died on the 4th of October 1885 at his mother’s residence, Woodburn, near Kilmore.

Peter Beveridge gained an extensive knowledge of the Watti Watti and other Aboriginal peoples of the Murray, Murrumbidgee and Darling districts and publishes extensively on their languages and lifeways. HE also published articles and letters using pseudonyms like ‘Talko’ and ‘Boorongie’- two Watti Watti words meaning ‘good’ and ‘malee scrub’ respectively. He published three journal articles (1861, 1869 and 1883) and a major work was published posthumously (1889) and he contributed to Watti Watti and Ladji Ladji vocabulary to Smyth’s two-volume ethnography published in 1878. His article ‘Aboriginal Ovens’, which is reproduced in this work, was read to the London Anthropological Society in May 1869- Beveridge noted that it was based on his observations that extended some 28 years.

Specifications

Condition: Very good. Clean pages, no dog-ears or damage.

Publisher: Self-published

Year: 2022

Format: Paperback

Pages: 178

ISBN: 9798448029387

$20.00

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