# Thirty Years in Australia

Author: Cambridge, Ada, 1844-1926

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37825

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Thirty+Years+in+Australia+Cambridge&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I knew nothing whatever of Australia when I rashly consented to marry a young man who had irrevocably bound himself to go and live there, and, moreover, to go within three months of the day on which the wild idea occurred to me. During the seven weeks or thereabouts of a bewildering engagement, the while I got together my modest trousseau, we hunted for information in local libraries, and from more or less instructed friends. The books were mostly old ones, the tales the same. _Geoffrey Hamlyn_ was my sheet anchor, but did not seem to be supported by the scraps of prosaic history obtainable; we could not verify those charming homes and social customs. On the other hand, cannibal blacks an...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thirty-years-in-australia-37825/chapters/20/index.md)