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Originally published in Parramatta, N.S.W. : J.J. Beukers, ca. 1860. These editions are reproduced from the original in the John Oxley Library' Edition in limited numbers
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Adventures of a Native of Australia When Astray from His Ship, the Barque "Lynx' (a Whaler), and His Consequent Cruise in a Boat on the Ocean : A True Narrative
Adventures
Mervyn Cobcroft
(editor),
St Lucia
:
Amphion Press
,
1988
Z1712707
1988
single work
prose
travel
"This narrative, described by Bradley as an 'abstract from my old Logs, with some little additions for [sic] memory, but all Facts', comprises descriptions of two separate voyages made 1831-32, off the coast of north-eastern Australia. On both of these, Bradley, a mariner on the whaling ship, the Lynx, became separated from the main vessel during whaling operations." (Walsh and Hooton 25).
On the second expedition, his crew "picked up two white men, escaped convicts from the Moreton Bay Settlement who had been living among the Aborigines for two or three years. Bradley quotes the stories of the convicts directly as told to him, relating the circumstances of their escapes and their lives with the Aborigines with much colourful detail and individuality of expression" (25-6).
Source
Walsh, Kay and Joy Hooton. Australian Autobiographical Narratives : An Annotated Bibliography. Canberra : Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, University College, ADFA and National Library of Australia, 1993.
St Lucia : Amphion Press , 1988 -
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A Nine Month's Cruise in the 'Ariel' Schooner From San Francisco in Company with the 'Wanderer' of the Royal Yaght [sic] Squadron, Belonging to Benjamin Boyd, Esq.
Cruise of the 'Ariel'.
Mervyn Cobcroft
(editor),
St Lucia
:
Amphion Press
,
1991
Z1712715
1991
single work
prose
travel
St Lucia
:
Amphion Press
,
1991
