A selection of extracts drawn predominantly from autobiographies, diaries and newspaper articles. The selected authors include Matthew Flinders, John Batman, Jane Franklin, Georgiana Huntly McCrae, Celeste de Chabrillan, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke, Anthony Trollope, Francis William Lauderdale Adams, Hume Nisbet and Rudyard Kipling. Also represented are some Aboriginal voices and the words of Chinese migrants.