A trip around the world : on board the merchantman bark “Charles Stewart” of New York

Bangor, Maine: O.N. Furbush, 1907. Octavo, lettered wrappers, lightly marked, small chips to head and foot of spine, original photographic frontispiece of the “Charles Stewart”, pp. 100, reproduction photographs portraits, a very good copy.

A scarce account of 1883-1884 voyage of the “Charles Stewart” from New York to Hobart, written by the daughter of the Captain. It contains a description go Hobart and its inhabitants : ‘The people of Hobart are plain looking, few handsome ones, but their plainness is only skin deep, for they were handsome in acts of friendship’. Following their stay in Hobart, the sailed for Brisbane, where they ‘meet a number of Aborigines, black and wicked looking’, before sailing again across the Pacific to Valparaiso.

A single example recorded on Trove (SLNSW)