James Bonwick, a teacher, author, historian and archivist, was born in 1817 at Lingfield, Surrey, the son of a carpenter. Having worked and travelled around the world, James has written his memories. 

The book is divided into five parts:

• His early life: at the Old Boro' Road Boys' School, his further training and teaching at Leicester, Ipswich and Hemel Hempstead, Bexley and Liverpool, his marriage in 1840 and transition from England to the Normal School in Hobart, Tasmania in 1841
• Life in Australia: Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland as a teacher, gold digger, inspector, and author
• His "retirement" in England: worked as a Labour Agent for Emigration – about this time he produced his "Resources of Queensland" as a pamphlet for the colonial government. Around 1884, after his last trip to Australia, he commenced work as an archivist, initially for Queensland. His work on the records of New South Wales till his retirement in 1902 due to ill health was the basis for an "Official History"
• World Wanderings: details his travels to various lands – Egypt, America, Moscow, India, Italy, Sumatra, France, Tristan D'Acunha, Turkey, Sandwich Isles, Scotland, and Ireland
• Family records

This ebook is a the same as the CD version from Archive Digital Books Australasia which is available from Gould Genealogy & other retailers. This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole original volume, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

Also available:

• An Octogenarian's Reminiscence - CD