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Originally Posted by ClareK
Years ago I borrowed a copy of this book of letters written by an Englishwoman in mid-19th century Australia. I was so enthralled that as soon as I'd finished the book I went out and bought my own copy. Now I have it on my ereader as well, free from the University of Adelaide. http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/henn...achel-henning/ |
Thanks for the lead, it looks to be an interesting read. As a narrow-minded male
I would not normally consider looking at a book of a woman's letters but having enjoyed Shute's Australian fiction (often having strong women characters) I download it and took a peek.
So from a male's and non Australian's perspective (although I have visited Australia a lot): On just the first page I looked at I learnt something as I didn't realise that the ss Great Britain (famous in her time, unique when launched and now preserved) spent time on the Australian immigrant run. And the rest looks very interesting and of wide interest.
I grabbed the adelaide.edu copy too, but I see it also on Kobo where it would work out at a few dollars if one uses one of their frequent 50% or 75% discount voucher offers; I don't know how well it is presented there though as there is a Kindle version free on Amazon but it turns out that one is just the Gutenberg text version with a cover slapped on.