Driven by the spirit of adventure, Edward Landor sailed to the young Swan River Colony in the 1840s. His account takes in the voyage, a mutiny and a stop at the Cape Verde islands, then settles into colonial life: Perth and its juries, boating upriver, the farms, the governor’s levees, hunting in the bush and his encounters with the Aboriginal people.
A witty settler’s portrait of Western Australia in its first decades, written with the assumptions of 1847. Download the free EPUB.