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From the mountains to the bush : Italian migrants write home from Australia, 1860-1962 / Jacqueline Templeton ; edited by John Lack assisted by Gioconda di Lorenzo

Record no:

62367

Call no:

305.851094 TEM

Author:

Templeton, Jacqueline ; Lack, John

Publisher:

Crawley, W.A.: University of Western Australia Press

Year:

2003

Description:

xv, 367 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Italians - Australia - Correspondence;
Immigrants - Australia - Correspondence;
Australia - Emigration and immigration - Social aspects;
Italian Australians;
Italy - Emigration and immigration;

Isbn:

1920694013

Type:

Book

Abstract:

This study explores the experience of Valtellinese migrants to Australia between 1860 and 1953. It employs the letters exchanged between the Italian migrants and their families to trace the story of these sojourners who journeyed from the mountains to

the bush.

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Contents:

Pt. I. The Valtellina - Australia migrations -- Ch. 1. Behind the salt-water curtain -- Ch. 2. Sojourners -- Ch. 3. The home front -- Ch. 4. 'What sort of a life is this!' -- Pt. II. The Migrants and their letters -- Antonio Crameri, 1861-65 -- Bombardieri-Molinari,

1882-96 -- Pozzi-Beccaria, 1875-76 -- Battista Cabassi, 1883 -- Lorenzo Bonadeo, 1893-1904 -- The A. and L. families, 1900-40 -- Nazzari, 1912-30 -- Salandi-De Campo, 1912-18 -- The G. family, 1934-62 -- Romedietti, 1931-55 -- Agostino Candiani, 1937-60 -- The O. and S. families, 1949-52 -- Tarcisio Crapella, 1952-53.

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