Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand by George... - 9781108039062

Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New ZealandBeing an Artist's Impressions of Countries and People at the Antipodes\nAuthor(s): George French Angas\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108039062, 978-1108039062\nSynopsis\nGeorge French Angas [tel] gave up a career in business to become an artist, and his interest in natural history and ethnology is apparent throughout his work. In the early 1840s he travelled to Australia and New Zealand. His paintings from this period were later exhibited and formed the basis of two important large-format books of lithographs that appeared in 1849, having been announced in this two-volume 1847 account of his travels. Volume 1 documents Angas' expeditions in South Australia, a colony his father helped to found. Angas accompanied William Giles into the Murray basin and George Grey along the south-east coast, and his observations include detailed descriptions .