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Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing

Alexander Marjoribanks wrote this travel narrative based on his experience of New South Wales. It was interspersed with a description of the colony and its history, a history that Marjoribanks argued lacked any battles or glorious victories. Marjoribanks described his experience of the colony in this text, juxtaposing divergent information into one narrative: history is presented alongside descriptions of poisonous snakes, bushrangers, the beauty of Sydney, literature, suffrage, strikes, emigrant information. The narrative concluded with the present state and future prospects of the colony.