19th-Century Australian Travel Writing
Sherman Foote Denton (1856-1937) was a naturalist and artist who later worked for the United States Fish Commission and at the Smithsonian Institute. Travelling with his talented naturalist family, Denton journeyed from America to New Zealand and Australia. Rather than staying in urban centres, Denton spent his time in the Australian bush in Victoria and Queensland, making observations on the flora, fauna, and Aboriginal populations, and while in Queensland Denton gave a series of lectures. Written in a conversational style, Denton's anecdotes are accompanied by botanical and zoological notes, with his illustrations predominantly zoological and ethnographic.
