After twenty-four days at sea on the Edinburgh Castle, Lady Barker lands at Cape Town in October 1875 and travels on by Algoa Bay and Durban to Maritzburg in Natal, where her husband had a colonial post. Her letters home describe landscapes, servants, prices, travel by cart, and the comic trials of entertaining with a doll’s house and a dozen teacups.
Witty, observant letters by the author of Station Life in New Zealand, written with the colonial assumptions of her time. Download the free EPUB.