9781038342843 - dearest mother: letters from the australian gold rush and beyond (the poignant saga of walter bentley woodbury) von morris, muriel (4 Ergebnisse)
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I have often wished that some of you were here to see the strange things I see.' -Walter Bentley Woodbury, 1853In 1852, eighteen-year-old Walter Bentley Woodbury set sail from England to Australia in search of gold. What he found instead, through hardship and heartbreak, was himself. These intimate… letters, preserved across generations and transcribed with care, bring Walter's remarkable voice to life. From the muddy goldfields of Buninyong to Javanese jungles and a burgeoning career in photography, his correspondence reveals a restless, observant young man, desperate for his mother's approval as he grows into a pioneering inventor.Woodbury went on to revolutionize photography with the Woodburytype process and was hailed as 'the Edison of photography.' From his studio in colonial Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies), he captured striking images of temples, landscapes, and daily life. This work would earn him international acclaim. But in these letters, written with wit and surprising candour, we meet him not as a legend, but as a son, a dreamer, and a man of his time.Interwoven with narrative context and rich family history, Dearest Mother is both a vivid coming-of-age story and a rare window into life during the Australian Gold Rush and 1850s colonial Indonesia. It offers a poignant reflection on lost art forms and the enduring ache of homesickness, serving as a reminder of the power of the written word to preserve connection across time and distance.
