A trip to sea from 1810 to 1815

Long Sutton : Printed and Published by John Swain, 1854. Small octavo, original green cloth boards with gilt lettering to upper board (boards a little rubbed), contemporary owner’s name to front free endpaper dated 1855, vi, 92 pp, internally sound, the pages with occasional fingermarks and some sparse foxing and fingermarks. Ferguson, 12598.

Autobiographical account of young Englishman George Miller’s years at sea during the Napoleonic era. He left his home in Lincolnshire at the age of 17, and in his eventful maritime experiences he travelled to Hobart Town in Van Diemen’s Land; joined a whaling expedition to New Zealand; visited Sydney; was shipwrecked of the coast of New Guinea, press-ganged in Batavia, and drafted in Penang; visited India; and served in the navy in Ireland, Spain, Holland, France and America.

Copies are recorded in five Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of South Australia; State Library of New South Wales, Libraries Tasmania, State Library of Victoria).

Ferguson, 12598.