ISBN: 9781741756142
Blackgum Item Code: AU84
Title: Stamp of Australia
Author: Kelly Burke
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
RRP: $26.95
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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.