The Australian Abroad. Branches from the Main Routes Around the World. [Together with] Series II. Ceylon, India, and Egypt. 2 volumes

Ferguson 10438 and 10439. Hingston arrived in Victoria in 1852 to try his luck, unsuccessfully, on the Mount Alexander goldfields. He had considerable success as a property investor on `Marvellous Melbourne’, and lived the life of a rich eccentric and well regarded travel writer. `Hingston’s witty and allusive meditation on travel and the human condition was an immediate success and remained a remarkable record of Asian travel’ (ADB)