D. Y. Gilbert

Napoleon'S History of Australia (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A foray into historical faction starting with a real-life English emigrant, Napoleon Gilbert, ancestor of Ms Gilbert, born in 1799 who immigrated with his family to Tasmania in the late 1820s.This family saga spans five generations, rags to riches and back again, farming and convict labour in Tasmania, butchering meat for Victorian goldminers, Darling Downs squattocracy, Ballarat and Melbourne Architect, genteel Melbourne society, the 1890 crash, Prussian farmers in Ipswich, the First World War, death and poverty in Port Pirie and scandalous unwed motherhood in Adelaide. The connecting thread is the fact that all the Gilbert sons had Napoleon as their middle name, ending the authors father, Melbourne Napoleon Gilbert. It is an entertaining and novel way of writing history, proving that fact is stranger than fiction. ***

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris AU
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514446829
• Artikelnr.: 52544341

Autorenporträt

Ms Gilbert was born in January 1950 in Adelaide, South Australia, youngest daughter of Melbourne Napoleon Gilbert and inheritor of 5 generations of 'Napoleons'. Educated at Black Forest and Glenelg Primary Schools and Woodlands CEGGS, she matriculated in 1967. In 1968 she was a Rotary Exchange student to El Paso, Texas and in 1969 attended the SA School of Art in Adelaide. After a failed marriage she studied Secondary Art Teaching at Underdale CAE and in 1980 married Kevin, a marriage which has lasted 36 years. She has three sons, Stephen, Jamie and Paul and several grandchildren. Ms Gilbert has been an educator for 27 years and has a Masters degree in Special Education. She has recently retired and is now working on several novels. Her hobbies are in property investment and travelling.