Few Englishmen, Twopeny complains, realise that Australia has real cities. He takes the reader on a walk round Melbourne, then Sydney and Adelaide, and describes colonial houses and furniture, the servant problem, food and drink, dress, society, sport, religion, the press and the Australian Sunday as he saw them in the early 1880s.
A lively social portrait of colonial city life, prized by Australian historians. Download the free EPUB.