A Life On The Ocean Wave: The Journals of Captain George Bayly, 1824-1844: Introduced and edited by Pamela Statham and Rica Erickson

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Dust jacket is in protective cover. Interior and binding are still excellent.

The journal Captain Bayly kept of his travels is notable for the historical significance of his voyages and the writer's eye for a good story. It contains eyewitness accounts of the transportation of male and female convicts to Australia, the voyage of British immigrants to the ill-fated settlement attempted by Thomas Peel near Perth, hostilities between Maoris and Europeans, and trading voyages to and from China.

Captain Bayly's stories of typhoons, floods, heroic rescues, shipboard quarrels and deaths give the book appeal to a wide audience.

The journal's depiction of the infant Australian settlements as part of a widely flung network of British colonial outposts in the nineteenth century also provides insight into the nation's economic development.

Encounters with cannibals, convicts and pirates were just some highlights of eleven long journeys under sail that Captain George Bayly made around the world in the early nineteenth century.