The Victorian Colonial Romance With The Antipodes PDF Download

Excerpt from A Romance at the Antipodes After succumbing for three days to uncomfor table sensations while rolling around in the Bay of Biscay, I venture on deck one fine morning and find a pleasing group of young people near the wheel. My deck-chair is happily placed in their vicinity, where I may be cheered by the sound of their merry voices. At times the thought of being on the bosom of this desert of blue for an indefinite period is simply distracting. One longs for something nobler and broader than a purely animal existence, which, though beneficial physically to me to day, may occasion utter vacuity of brain. The loss of accustomed occupations and pleasures depresses one's spirits but on the other hand, the air 18 deliciously stimulating, and we are treated to most lovely, evanescent, ever-chan ging seascapes, while there is a delightful sense of freedom from responsibility. We are neither here nor there, and amenable to no laws, save those of the aquatic gods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.