The Australian Abroad on Branches From the Main Routes Round the World by James Hingston Second Edition 1885.Original Edition published in two volumes, this being the first in a single volume. Octavo, slightly age toned red cloth covered boards with black and gold illustration along spine and on upper board, advertisements on front and rear endpapers, 75 black and white full page and text illustrations, some slight age toning to prelims and foredges otherwise internally very good.

James Hingston, was a  well-known writer of Melbourne, born at London in 1830, he went to Melbourne in 1852 and worked for a year on the diggings in Victoria. Since 1853 he had been in practice as a public notary and patent agent in Melbourne, and was a prolific contributor to local newspapers. His best-known productions are the series of articles entitled "Travel Talk" which appeared in the Melbourne Argus under the signature "J. H." Two volumes of selections from these articles were published in London by Sampson Low & Co. in 1879 and 1880 under the title of "The Australian Abroad," and a colonial edition in one volume was published in Melbourne in 1885.  Places visited and reported on include Japan, China, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and New Zealand, Ceylon, India, and Egypt. Overal a very nice copy