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James Inglis
1845–1908
A Scottish-born writer who turned years in India and Australasia into lively books on travel, sport, and colonial life. His work mixes firsthand adventure with the outlook of the late 19th century, making it both vivid and historically revealing.
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About the author
Born in Scotland on November 24, 1845, he spent much of his early adult life in India, where he worked as an indigo planter and later became involved in the tea trade. Those experiences gave him material for books about travel and hunting, including accounts drawn from the Nepaul frontier.
He later settled in colonial New South Wales, Australia, where he worked as a merchant and also entered public life as a politician. Alongside that career, he continued to write, publishing travel writing, poetry, and works that reflected his years moving between India, New Zealand, and Australia.
Today he is remembered less for politics than for the way his books capture the ambitions, attitudes, and everyday details of the British colonial world in the late 1800s. For modern listeners, his writing offers both adventure and a window into the era that shaped it.