Their Chastity Was Not Too Rigid: Leisure Times in Early Australia by J W C Cumes

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Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamps and borrower card remnants on inside pages. Wear to book corners and edges. Mark on tail endpage. Small mark on tail foredge.Pages have sunned. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine. Small tear to spine tail now protected with book tape. Please see images for more information.

In the years immediately after the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay, the primary concern of the colonist, both free and convict, was to establish a foothold on what was to them an inhospitable continent.

The colonist soon established recreational activities which reflected the British society from which they came. These activities were often violent, brutal and crude. But gradually, a minority established gentler, more cultured pursuits such as those associated with music and the theatre. (book flap)