19th-Century Australian Travel Writing
Sketches over 50,000 Miles is a short work by South Australian settler F. T. Chapman. Chapman narrates in an anecdotal style his travels to New Zealand, Honolulu, New Guinea, Singapore, Japan, Europe, Egypt and Australia. In Australia he briefly described his coach ride from Launceston to Hobart, the beauty of Sydney, the fruit, hotels, botanical gardens, his perceptions of Aboriginal people in Brisbane, and his journey by steamer to North Queensland before his return to Adelaide. The majority of Chapman's work was concerned with destinations other than Australia, and was included in newspaper columns under the title “Round the world notes of travel in out-of-the-way places”, appearing in the South Australian Advertiser in 1879.
