In the Service of the Company - Vol 2: Letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural Company: June 1832 - March 1834

by William Edward Parry

The Australian Agricultural Company was formed in London in April 1824 to raise fine woolled sheep on a Crown Grant in the Colony of New South Wales. The labour-force was to consist mainly of assigned convicts, but the Company was to send out overseers, shepherds, mechanics and other servants, together with a supply of pure-bred Merino sheep, cattle and horses. The first Company 'Establishment' sailed from England in June 1825 on the York and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1920942114
• ISBN13: 9781920942113
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.8"