Australia: The Making of a Nation

by John Foster Fraser

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299 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1910

About the author

Sir John Foster Fraser was a Scottish travel author. In July 1896, he and two friends, Samuel Edward Lunn and Francis Herbert Lowe, took a bicycle trip around the world riding Rover safety bicycles. They covered 19,237 miles in two years and two months, travelling through 17 countries and across three continents. He documented the trip in the book Round the World on a Wheel.

Between books he was a journalist. In 1901 while working for The Yorkshire Post he wrote, among other things, a 16-page description of Queen Victoria's funeral. In the UK in 1916 he lectured on What I Saw in Russia.

Reviews

[Henri Moreaux · Rating 1 out of 5]

Contrary to what the title would have you believe this book is in fact not about the making of Australia, and if you're after that you will be sorely disappointed in what this book has to offer.

On the other hand, if you've ever woken up in the morning and thought what was missing from your life was a 299 page rant from a racist British guy who thinks Australia will be invaded by the "yellow races" lest we populate the interior then this 105 year old book is for you!

Overall, it had a few interesting tidbits of historical note, but some sections such as the fear of a "yellow race" invasion or that we need "black" workers in the tropics as it's not suitable for "white" workers as well as an opinion from the Presbyterian Church that white people need to breed more or the lower races will take over the country was a bit to Mein Kampfy for my taste.

If one was to make a snarky four word review it would be: British Hitler writes book.