TRAVELS IN
WESTERN AUSTRALIA

TRAVELS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Some Press Opinions of the First Edition

The Daily Chronicle: “This book is a pleasantand interesting one; it tells what somebody reallysaw and felt, not what somebody thought theproper thing to say. The average man will findMay Vivienne a delightful and exhilarating guideto the still only half-understood pleasures andresources of Western Australia.”

The Empire Review: “It contains much first-handinformation, clearly given, concerning thecities, goldfields, and agricultural districts ofWestern Australia. It is well illustrated, and willbe found a most useful work of reference.”

The Financial Times: “Among the severalbooks published dealing with Western Australia,we know of few, if any, which are at once soentertaining and so instructive as this volume.Any one who desires to obtain in a most pleasantway a good general knowledge of this distantcolony could scarcely do better than purchase thisbook. As a mere record of travel, apart from itsspecial interest as dealing with a gold-producingcolony, it is well worth reading, and it contains aprofusion of interesting illustrations.”

The Pall Mall Gazette: “Miss Vivienne knowsher Westralia up and down; she takes us to farmsand timber estates; she has visited the goldfieldsmore than once, inspected all the chief mines,pegged a claim with her own hand, and pluckilytraversed the pioneer fringe of civilisation. Herdelightful journeys, which (with admirable illustrations)take us over the whole country, reveal itsastounding promise, which has already largelybecome performance.”