AustLit

“This is the latest volume of selections from the work of John Stanley James, alias ‘Julian Thomas’, better known as ‘The Vagabond’. Under those guises, he roamed the 19th-century world, contributing many vivid reports and exposes to a variety of publications in Britain, America and Australia. This collection deals mainly with his travels in a Western world undergoing revolutionary changes in transport, industrial techniques, and social mobility. New introductory chapters written by family connections reveal for the first time much of the peculiar nature of the Vagabond’s family life and personal characteristics. As the reader will soon discover, this was no conventional author and journalist.”--Back cover.