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The Stamp Of Australia by Burke Kelly - Book - Hard Cover - Australian History
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- Condition
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- 1st Edition
- Book Title
- The Stamp Of Australia
- ISBN
- 9781741756456
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- The Stamp of Australia: the Story of Our Mail- from Second Fleet to Twenty-First Century
- Item Height
- 240mm
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Item Width
- 157mm
- Subject
- Business
- Item Weight
- 514g
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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The story of Australia's postal services now two hundred years old is the story of Australia itself. At first, a small huddle of colonists awaited letters from England, which most of them regarded as home'. Later, as settlers dispersed, letters kept people in touch with each other over vast distances and difficult terrain. Over the years soldiers wrote back reassuringly from battlefields abroad; lovers shared intimacies; and new waves of immigrants urged those they had left behind to follow them in making a home in a strange land. Australia Post's history mirrors the story of evolving transportation of the earliest sailing ships carrying their precious packages of letters, of steamers, of Cobb + Co coaches, of the expansion of the railways and the great aviation pioneers. It is a story of evolving technology too from the creation of the great Overland Telegraph to modern mail sorting, from posties on horseback to present-day motor-cycled deliverers and Express Post whisked across the country by jet. Australia's first postmaster, the ex convict Isaac Nichols, operated out of a private house on the corner of Sydney's George Street and Circular Quay. His first batch of mail com
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Allen & Unwin
ISBN-13
9781741756456
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
The Stamp of Australia: the Story of Our Mail- from Second Fleet to Twenty-First Century
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Business
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
240mm
Item Width
157mm
Item Weight
514g
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Australia
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