Cirrus@Austlit

'Pride Against Prejudice is a book which, I think, most people should read. The book, rather than containing a continuative story, is, as Ida West explains in her Preface, a collection of notes which she has kept "in a draw or on a shelf'. Nevertheless, her experiences at Killiecrankie and at other places in the Furneaux group of islands near Tasmania makes interesting albeit sometimes difficult reading. Some passages in her book brought flashes of nostalgia to me. Who can forget those "poultices" which were made from sugar and Velvet soap? Or the pants which were cut off at the knees and used as swimming trunks.'  (Introduction)