I BROUGHT four books to the Show & Tell meeting and would have brought more, had I been able to carry them. Three were: Sydney Parkinson, Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas in His Majesty’s Ship, the Endeavour, a 1972 Libraries Board of South Australia facsimile edition of the orginal, which was first published in 1773; Anne Salmond’s The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (London: Penguin Books, 2004); and Historical Sites of Jakarta by A Heuken, SJ, published by Cipta Loka Caraka, Jakarta, in 1982. The fourth was Before the First Fleet: The European Discovery of Australia 1606–1777 by my late husband, John Kenny, who died in December 1987. John Frost wrote the Foreword, and the book was published in 1995 by Kangaroo Press of Kenthurst, NSW.
Category: Helen Kenny.
Thanks for the interesting copy of Biblionews and for your note. There are a few things [in your version of my Show & Tell contribution] to correct, one being that I approached Sprod to illustrate an article!
Thanks for the interesting copy of Biblionews and for your note. There are a few things [in your version of my Show & Tell contribution] to correct, one being that I approached Sprod to illustrate an article!
The traditonal end-of-year Show & Tell meeting held at the Turramurra Uniting Church was the Society’s last meeting to be held in that venue before its move in 2007 to a central one in the premises of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, at 145 Macquarie Street, Sydney. Members present at the meeting expressed their thanks to Immediate Past President Janet Robinson and her husband Gordon (winner of last year’s Show & Tell) for making the Turramurra venue available so readily and for so long, when the venue organised by Betty and Jeff Bidgood in Ryde became, after some years, no longer available.As Acting President, Brian Taylor chaired the meeting and provided the traditional prize. Ten of the members present “showed & told”.