The Foundation Series
The Grimwade bequest enabled MUP to publish eighteen Miegunyah Press titles between 1967 and 1994. The list is strong in Australian history, maritime history, natural history and biography, and individual titles have won many Awards.
Titles listed below without a catalogue link are out of print. In some cases, a catalogue link will provide further information about paperback editions that are still available.
| 1.1 | Russell Grimwade J. R. Poynter |
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| 1.2 | Return to Tahiti: Bligh's Second Breadfruit Voyage Douglas Oliver William Bligh's first expedition, aboard HMS Bounty, to obtain Tahitian breadfruit for the plantation workers of the West Indies ended in a celebrated mutiny. A year after his return to England Bligh embarked again upon the same mission, which ended this time with surpassing success. |
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| 1.3 | The Contented Botanist: Letters of W. H. Harvey about Australia and the Pacific Edited by Sophie C. Ducker William Henry Harvey (1811-1866), a Professor of Botany from Dublin, was a prolific letter writer, and engaged in friendly correspondence with outstanding scientists of his time. The letters selected for this book are of national and international significance, not only to the scientific community, but also for their Australian and Pacific historical content. |
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1.4 | Mariners Are Warned!: John Lort Stokes and HMS Beagle in Australia 1837-1843 Marsden Hordern Winner of the 1989 Age Book of the Year Award and the A. A. Phillips Award for Australian Studies Also available in paperback The third and last of the great British voyages of hydrographic survey was undertaken by John Lort Stokes in HMS Beagle from 1837 to 1843. Free to probe Australia's unknown coast, he discovered the Fitzroy, Albert and Flinders rivers and Port Darwin, and his most notable achievement was the charting of that graveyard of sailing ships - Bass Strait. |
| 1.5 | Gipps-La Trobe Correspondence: 1839-1846 Edited by A. G. L. Shaw Here, published for the first time, are the private letters between Sir George Gipps and his subordinate, C. J. La Trobe from La Trobe's arrival in 1839 to Gipps's departure in 1846. Collected and edited by Professor Shaw, the letters provide a commentary on the development of the Port Phillip District (the modern state of Victoria) in the early 1840s. |
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| 1.6 | Walers: Australian Horses Abroad A. T. Yarwood In Calcutta of 1846 the term 'Waler' was coined to describe a horse from New South Wales. A. T. Yarwood tells the story of these part-Thoroughbred horses and of the men and women who rode, bought, sold and shipped Walers across the hemisphere. A lively and fascinating history. |
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1.7 | Australian Children's Books: A Bibliography Volume 1, 1774-1972 Marcie Muir Volume 2, 1973-1988 Kerry White Volume 3, 1989-2000 Kerry White An essential reference for all those who have come to appreciate the extraordinary richness of Australian writing for children. Librarians, book collectors, specialist and antiquarian booksellers, and others with an interest in this important aspect of Australian cultural history, now have an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive source. |
| 1.8 | Commandant of Solitude: The Journals of Captain Collet Barker 1828-1831 John Mulvaney and Neville Green These journals cover the period when Captain Collet Barker, led expeditions and settlement parties to Raffles Bay in what is now the Northern Territory, and to King George's Sound, Western Australia. Barker emerges as an excellent administrator, kind-hearted, zealous and firm. His untimely death is movingly recounted in Chapter 1. |
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1.9 | Grevillea: Proteaceae: A Taxonomic Revision D. J. McGillivray assisted by R. O. Makinson Foreword by J. R. Poynter A. O. The first definitive scientific survey of the third largest Australian flowering plant genus. Characteristics of all species are listed in detail; 53 new species and 34 new subspecies fully treated for the first time. Notes on distribution and ecology. |
| 1.10 | Imagining the Pacific: In the Wake of the Cook Voyages Bernard Smith Now available in paperback With its breadth of vision and attention to detail, its exploration of the complex relationship between the pursuit of knowledge and the exercise of power, Imagining the Pacific takes its place alongside Bernard Smith's earlier work as a milestone in historical scholarship. |
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| 1.11 | A World That Was: The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia Ronald M. Berndt and Catherine J. Berndt, with John E. Stanton This extraordinary book, written from material gathered over fifty years ago, will almost certainly be the last fine-grained account of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia. It encompasses relations between and among individuals and clan groups, land tenure, kinship, the subsistence economy, trade, ceremony, councils, fighting and warfare, rites of passage from conception to death, myths, and beliefs and practices concerning healing and the supernatural. Encyclopaedic and engrossing. |
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| 1.12 | Life after Gold: Twentieth-century Ballarat Weston Bate Lucky City, Weston Bate's history of nineteenth-century Ballarat received the Ernest Scott Prize for the best work in Australian history, 1978-79. In the second volume of his two-volume study, Bate explores twentieth-century Ballarat. The book examines the effects on the city as mining petered out, the two most important factories closed, the forest disappeared and many young men were slaughtered in World War I. He shows how, although the city was decimated, much remained to help sustain the city during its population decline and underpinned its expansion during and after the war. |
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1.13 | A Journey to Cooper's Creek Hermann Beckler Edited and with an Introduction by Stephen JeffriesTranslated by Stephen Jeffries and Michael Kertesz First-hand accounts of the myth-laden Burke and Wills expedition are remarkably few, in contrast to the reams of subsequent commentary and conjecture. Hermann Beckler, botanical collector and doctor to the expedition, wrote one of the two substantial accounts, in his native German. The manuscript is now translated and published for the first time. |
| 1.14 | Lyrebird Rising: Louise Hanson-Dyer of l'Oiseau-Lyre, 1884-1962 Jim Davidson Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award (Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction) 1993 Lyrebird Rising is a study of the extraordinary life of Louise Hanson-Dyer (1884-1962), which began in the Melbourne and ended in Monaco. In 1932, in Paris, Louise established Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre (Lyrebird Press), and as a music publisher, set about reviving baroque and medieval music in rare editions notable both for their scholarship and sumptuousness. By the time she died L'Oiseau-Lyre was a famous label. |
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| 1.15 | Victoria's Colonial Governors: 1839-1900 Davis McCaughey, Naomi Perkins and Angus Trumble A lively and authoritative account of the demanding and changing roles of the nineteenth-century colonial governors of the State of Victoria. This book pieces together the elaborate story of the hopes and fears, trials and achievements, friends and adversaries, changing role and expectations, imagery and daily life of each of the governors of Victoria from 1839 to 1900. |
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| 1.16 | An Officer of the Blue: Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne, South Seas Explorer 1724-1772 Edward Duyker Foreword by Frank Horner The first full account of French explorer Marion Dufresne - the man who reached Tasmania before the English. His expedition was the first to encounter the Tasmanian Aborigines and was a precursor of the great voyages of La P'rouse, d'Entrecasteaux, Baudin and d'Urville. |
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| 1.17 | New Holland Journal: November 1833-October 1834 Baron Charles von H'gel Translated and edited by Dymphna Clark H'gel was an Austrian diplomat, army officer and courtier, and was celebrated across Europe, during the mid-nineteenth century, for his magnificent gardens and his cultivation of exotic plants. He spent most of 1834 in the young Australian colonies, observing the flora and collecting the seeds for his gardens. This is his journal of his travels on this continent. |
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1.18 | Georgiana: A biography of Georgiana McCrae, painter, diarist, pioneer Brenda Niall With a Catalogue of the Plates by Caroline Clemente Winner of the Fellowship of Australian Writers Australian Unity Award, 1994; Winner of the 1995 Victorian Premier's Literary Award (Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction) Now available in paperback The award-winning biography of Georgiana Huntly McCrae, illegitimate daughter of a Scottish duke, a professional portrait painter in 1820s Edinburgh, and a settler's wife in early Melbourne. By allowing Georgiana's own voice to be heard through her letters and journals Brenda Niall has brought a legendary colonial figure into authentic vibrant life. |
