Cirrus@Austlit

Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing

Arthur Nicols' travel narrative is fictionalized in Wild Life an Adventure in the Australian Bush: Four Years' Personal Experience. His personal experience of Australia is written through the character of Harold Bertram; through this device, Nicols described daily station life, the countryside, Aboriginal populations, and the flora and fauna, often in a humourous light. This publication is the Australian edition, and Nicols prefaced the work by stating it would serve to draw attention to the noble territory of Queensland. The book was illustrated by John T. Nettleship.