Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing
English born Matthew Henry Marsh (1810-1881) was a barrister, pastoralist and parliamentarian. In Overland from Southampton to Queensland Marsh chronicled his global tour from England to Australia. Written in the style of a travel journal, the work presented information about the places he visited, including an account of the French countryside, improvements in Egypt, travel through the Indian Ocean, and Ceylon. Once in Australia Marsh spent most of his time in New South Wales and Queensland, where he detailed the landscape, flora and fauna, the indigenous population, the beauty of Sydney, as well as industrial concerns that existed in relation to squatting and coal-mining. The work contained two maps illustrating Marsh's route.
