A Facsimile of the first edition. Descriptive of soil, climate, natural productions. Hints to various classes of emigrants, letters from settlers. Stephens was employed by George Fife Angas, in about 1838, to write emigration propaganda. This, The Land of Promise, is his first notable work and is an authentic and impartial history of the rise and progress of the new British province of South Australia; including particulars descriptive of its soil, climate, natural productions, etc. and proofs of its superiority to all other British colonies. Embracing also a full account of the South Australian Company, with hints to various classes of emigrants, and numerous letters from settlers concerning wages, provisions, their satisfaction with the colony, etc.
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Stephens was employed by George Fife Angas, in about 1838, to write emigration propaganda. This, The Land of Promise, is his first notable work and is an authentic and impartial history of the rise and progress of the new British province of South Australia; including particulars descriptive of its soil, climate, natural productions, etc. and proofs of its superiority to all other British colonies. Embracing also a full account of the South Australian Company, with hints to various classes of emigrants, and numerous letters from settlers concerning wages, provisions, their satisfaction with the colony, etc.