Ordered abroad by his doctor, the Birmingham engineering manufacturer Richard Tangye set off by sea and kept notes on everything: shipboard companions, burials at sea and sharks, then the colonial cities of Australia, its rabbit plagues, the United States and finally Egypt, all recorded with a businessman’s curiosity and a fondness for anecdote.
Cheerful Victorian travel writing from a self-made industrialist who enjoyed people as much as places. Download the free EPUB.