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Notes

  • Includes some poetry supposedly by the author. (See Warren Fahey's note on 'The Settler's Lament' for a further opinion on authorship.)
  • The reviewer in the The Colonial Magazine and East India Review is of the opinion that John Henderson is writing (in the first edition) of a time 10-12 years prior to the date of publication.

Affiliation Notes

  • 19th-Century Australian Travel Writing

    John Henderson Esquire (1819-1894), was a Lieutenant in her Majesty's Ceylon Rifle Regiment. His two-volume travel narrative, Excursions and Adventures in New South Wales, began with the statement that a distinct account of the experiences of a settler would enable the intending emigrant to estimate the discomforts, annoyances and dangers to which the settler was exposed, but also what they had to look forward to. Henderson warned: "let no one who can live at home be too eager to seek his fortune in a distant land." This emigrant guide described the climate, the irritation of insects, the beauty of landscape, costs of goods and labour, and other information useful to those intending to travel to Australia.

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Alternative title: Excursions and Adventures in New South Wales : With Pictures of Squatting and of Life in the Bush : An Account of the Climate, Productions, and Natural History of the Colony, and of the Manners and Customs of the Natives : with Advice to Emigrants, etc. : Together with a Prefatory Chapter on the Gold Fields, Comprising All the Information Received up to the Autumn of 1854 : Accompanied by Plates, and a Coloured Map of the Gold Regions
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Untitled 1851 single work review
— Appears in: The Colonial Magazine and East India Review , September vol. [22] no. 3 1851; (p. 259-263)
— Review of Excursions and Adventures in New South Wales : With Pictures of Squatting and of Life in the Bush : An Account of the Climate, Productions, and Natural History of the Colony, and of the Manners and Customs of the Natives, with Advice to Emigrants, Etc John Henderson , 1851 single work prose
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  • New South Wales,
  • Bush,
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
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