Giles, Edmund Douglas, b 1853? : Forty years of colonial life told with an avoidance of romance

Reminiscence of his early years in Somersetshire including details of the Giles forbears back to 1772; description of the voyage to Nelson on the `John Bunyan' in 1868; time spent in Westport where his uncle Dr Giles was the Resident Magistrate; gold mining on the West Coast; travel to Queensland via Sydney (includes descriptions of Sydney, Brisbane and Rockhampton); working as a bullock driver and later a ration carrier and drover, etc in Queensland; describes station life and his other outback experiences; Kanaka labourers in Queensland; Tasmania; return to Barcoo, Queensland; aborigines in Queensland; time spent on New Hebrides, Fiji and other islands in the Pacific; return to New Zealand; family and travel in the early 1900s.

Edmund Giles immigrated to New Zealand with his brother Edgar on the `John Bunyan' in 1868.

Quantity: 1 volume(s) (231 pages).

Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red linen)