PORT OF MANY PROWS by WILSON P.EVANS (Second Hand Book)

SECOND HAND BOOK

Dr Wilson P. Evans was born in Williamstown, where members of his family have resided since European settlement. He was official historian to the city until his retirement in 1984. His first journalistic efforts were published in The World’s News and then he has written extensively and had poetry, fiction and non-fiction published. Wilson studied at the Merchant Service School of Seamanship. During World War Two, he served with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Navy. He is a member of the International Circle of Officers and hold many foreign awards and honours. Wilson has held honorary diplomatic appointments for foreign governments, and acted for overseas veterans’ organisations. He lectured for many years in the history of colonial architecture, and he still resides in Williamstown where he continues to write. He was elected a Member of the Royal Society of Victoria in1964, and has an active interest in geology and zoology.

Port of Many Prows is broader than a history. It portrays the eternal cycle regeneration of a community in accordance with the vital force responsible for its creation – the sea. Coupled with the struggles of generations of seamen, Williamstown’s story is a universal one.

This book is the biography of a people and their customs, loves, joys, disasters and hatreds. It tells a myriad of individual stories; of Chinese of emigrants, of convicts and overseers, of epidemics, rogues and thieves. These stories contribute to a full and fascinating picture of life in one of Australia’s last ‘frontier’ town.

Specifications:

Condition: Good , Ex-Library – spine has the library sticker, inside front and back has the library stamps

Publisher: Victoria Press in association with Quest Publishing

Year: 1993

Format: Paperback

Pages: 200 pp

ISBN: 0724184643

$12.00

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