Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas, and the Shipwreck of the Princess of Wales Cutter, with an account of Two Years Residence on An Uninhabited Island.

Exeter: W.C. Featherstone and sold by the author, 1843.

Price: $300.00


About the item

Fifth Edition. Frontispiece and 2 plates. 1 vols. Sm 8vo. Bound in three quarters modern mottled calf and marbled boards, red title label. Fine. Hill, I, p. 126; Huntress 297E.

Item #317169

In May 1820 the author, an experienced seaman, embarked on a sealing expedition aboard the Princess of Wales, landing at Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands, and the Crozet Islands, where the ship was wrecked. Subsisting on sea elephants, penguins and sea birds, the surviviors were rescued by the American ship Philo and subsequently requested to be put ashore on St. Paul Island, from which they were picked up after three months and taken to Tasmania. The author lived there for many years, and the book's addenda concerns this settlement.