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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	QH46.5 .A85 2015		AVAILABLE

Author	Atkinson, Louisa, 1834-1872, author.
Title	Louisa Atkinson's nature notes / selection and commentary by Penny Olsen.
OCLC	883702249
ISBN	9780642278609
	0642278601
Publisher	Canberra, ACT : NLA Publishing, in association with the State Library of New South Wales, [2015]
Description	105 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Atkinson, Louisa, 1834-1872.
	Natural history illustration -- Australia.
	Natural history -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
	Natural history illustrators -- Australia.
	Plants -- Australia.
	Plants -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
	Animals -- Australia.
	Animals -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page 91; pages 104-105).
Summary	"Louisa Atkinson was a nineteenth-century naturalist, artist and journalist, and the author of the first novel published in Australia by a native-born woman. An observant explorer of the environment near her home in the lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales, she sketched and painted the plants, birds and animals of the area. At the same time, her informed, engaging, and oftern gently humorous articles appeared in Sydney newspapers. This book brings together a selection of extracts from her newspaper articles with illustrations from her sketchbooks. ... With a commentary on the life and work of Louisa Atkinson by research scientist and natural history writer Penny Olsen."--Page 4 of cover.

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