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A Narrative Of The Expedition To Botany Bay By Watkin Tench - Page 1 of 90
In offering this little tract to the public, it is equally the writer's wish to conduce to their amusement and information.
The expedition on which he is engaged has excited much curiosity, and gi...
The Hawaiian Archipelago - Six Months Among The Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, And...
Within the last century the Hawaiian islands have been the topic of various works of merit, and some explanation of the reasons which have led me to enter upon the same subject are necessary.
I wa...
Samuel Butler's Canterbury Pieces By Samuel Butler
Butler arrived in New Zealand in October, 1859, and about the same time Charles Darwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES was published. Shortly afterwards the book came into Butler's hands. He seems to have read...
A First Year In Canterbury Settlement By Samuel Butler
If I was at all freer anywhere they cut it out before printing it; besides, I had not yet shed my Cambridge skin and its trail is everywhere, I am afraid, perceptible. I have never read the book my...
Spinifex And Sand Pioneering And Exploration In Western Australia By David W ...
A NARRATIVE OF FIVE YEARS' PIONEERING AND EXPLORATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA -
The following pages profess to be no more than a faithful narrative of five years spent on the goldfields and in the fa...