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Issue Details: First known date: 1891... 1891 A Colonial Tramp : Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea
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Notes

  • Dedication: To the agents-general of the different Australasian colonies and all the numerous colonial friends who have kindly assisted me with this book of travels I now beg to dedicate it with thanks and regards.

Affiliation Notes

  • Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing

    Hume Nisbet (James Hume Nisbet 1849-1923) was a Scottish-born travel writer, prolific novelist and artist. A lengthy narrative, Nisbet’s A Colonial Tramp Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea chronicled his travels from London to Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand and Tasmania in a conversational, first-person style. Nisbet constructed himself as an experienced traveller and travel writer, who traveled for the sole purpose of "grasp[ing] the world ... with my note-book" (2). He described the landscape, trials of the colonial settler, and praised Melbourne for its youth and beauty, though professes to say less about New South Wales as it is fully settled and therefore has less advantages for the potential emigrant. Nisbet also illustrated his work.

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      Link: 21279775Full text document Sighted: 10/03/2021
      Extent: 2 v.p.
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      • Ferguson 13396.
      • Also available on microfilm.

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      Held at: Monash University Monash University Library Sir Louis Matheson Library
      Location: Special Collections Reading Room
      Local Id: 919.4 N723C

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      Held at: National Library of Australia
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      Held at: Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Library
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      Held at: State Library of Victoria
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      Held at: State Library of Queensland State Library of QLD
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      Held at: Adelaide University Barr Smith Library
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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Ward and Downey ,
      1896 .
      Extent: xxii, 467 p., [42] platesp.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Ferguson 13397.

Works about this Work

'My Head Cook...Appeared in an Evening Dress of Black Net and Silver' : (Re)Viewing Colonial Western Australians through Travellers' Imaginings Cindy Lane , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Melbourne Historical Journal , no. 39 2011; (p. 175-196)
'Did travel writers who observed the white European population in Western Australia in the latter half of the nineteenth century feel that they 'stood [a]mong them but not of them', and to what extent were their ideas preconceived? This article examines how contemporary thought and ideology influenced travellers' attitudes towards white Western Australian society between 1850 and 1914. In witting about the colonists, travellers' observations shaped, and were shaped by, the assumptions, ambitions, and ideologies of the institutions they represented, and those already existing in Western Australian society.' (p. 175)
'My Head Cook...Appeared in an Evening Dress of Black Net and Silver' : (Re)Viewing Colonial Western Australians through Travellers' Imaginings Cindy Lane , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Melbourne Historical Journal , no. 39 2011; (p. 175-196)
'Did travel writers who observed the white European population in Western Australia in the latter half of the nineteenth century feel that they 'stood [a]mong them but not of them', and to what extent were their ideas preconceived? This article examines how contemporary thought and ideology influenced travellers' attitudes towards white Western Australian society between 1850 and 1914. In witting about the colonists, travellers' observations shaped, and were shaped by, the assumptions, ambitions, and ideologies of the institutions they represented, and those already existing in Western Australian society.' (p. 175)
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