Days of My Youth, Charles Napier Hemy RA, ARA, RWS

Description

Days of My Youth is the personal memoirs of the artist and Royal Academian Charles Napier Hem, as a ten year old boy travelling to and from Australia and of his adventures in the Victorian gold fields in 1851 recorded in later life on his yacht, Van der Meer, in Plymouth Harbour commencing on 28 June, 1904/ The writings are one of the few first hand accounts of life in early Melbourne and on he Victorian goldfields by a child.