Round And Round, And In The World - Softcover

James Rattray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371376998 ISBN 13: 9780371376997

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Round And Round, And In The World by James Rattray. Round And Round, And In The World is a brisk, episodic travel memoir that blends personal adventure with social observation. Written as a sequence of essays and vignettes from his voyage to Australia in the 1850s and his later wanderings across the Indian Ocean, Africa, and the Middle East, the book interleaves shipboard dangers, storms, and misadventures with frank portraits of Melbourne’s gold-field era, Geelong, Ballarat, and Adelaide, and the evolving politics and society of Victoria. Rattray recounts detentions at St. Helena and Ascension, perilous passages in steamers and cutters, and the Overland Route, all with a wry humor and a critical eye for emigration schemes, colonial administration, and the people he meets – squatters, miners, Chinamen, bushrangers, and doctors, priests, and merchants. The book also surveys the humanitarian and moral questions of empire, capital punishment, and the treatment of indigenous peoples, offering a panoramic, sometimes satirical, view of mid-19th-century Australia and the wider world. The work blends travel narrative with social critique and remains a vivid record of its era.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371376998
• ISBN 13: 9780371376997
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260