Colonial Sketches: or, Five Years in South Australia, with Hints to Capitalists and Emigrants
London, Hall, Virtue, 1862.
Octavo, viii, 167 pages.
Original blind-stamped brown cloth lightly marked and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities, with slight wear to the corners; expert restoration to minor wear to the head and foot of the spine; trifling surface damage to the gutter of the rear endpaper; an excellent copy.
'I was offered some time before leaving South Australia, strong inducements to write a history of that virtuous territory which should be palatable to certain classes of a small community; but as I had no high opinion of either the colony or the principles on which it was founded, or its subsequent career, I could not be the partisan, at any price, of a locality which I could not conscientiously recommend as a suitable field of emigration for any class of my fellow-country-men.' Nothing is sacred; it is perhaps hardly surprising to learn that 'every copy available was purchased and destroyed by the Angas family' (Ferguson 10265, citing the Petherick copy in the National Library copy).
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