Relating the adventurous life of Cornishman Captain Edward Primrose Tregurtha, beginning with Royal Navy service in the Napoleonic Wars at the age of nine. This was followed by ten years on East Indiamen and country ships on the China run and in the East; South Seas whaling as captain of the Caroline out of Hobart Town in the 1830s; and employment as inter-colonial trader and shipmaster based at George Town and Launceston, Van Diemen's Land.
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Hardcover book with dustjacket
Signed, limited edition #579 of 600
Published by Blubber Head Press, 1980
165-pages, indexed
Approximate size 19.5cm wide x 31.5cm tall |
