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919.4042 OCO |
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260 pages ; 26 cm |
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Previously published in Boston [Mass.] by B.B. Mussey, 1836. |
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Undated facsimile reprint. . |
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"All of which I saw, and part of which I was"--Facsimile t.p. |
| Summary |
"Left, by an inconsiderate uncle and temporary guardian, unwatched in the living wilderness of London, at about eleven years of age chance led him among the sailors about Deptford and Wapping; thence he found his way on ship-board, as cabin-boy, and went in a convict ship to Port Jackson. A two or three years' residence in New Holland,... acquainted him not only with the history of the colony....but gave him the opportunity to learn the character of the aborigines -- an opportunity repeated by his being cast away in a whaler on the north of the continent.... Shipwrecked, in a subsequent voyage, among the Caroline group, living over five years there,... marrying, and having children...."--Preface, p. vii-viii. |
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Includes an approximately four-page glossary of the language of the Carolines. |
| Local Note |
esm. |
| Subject |
O'Connell, James F., 1808-
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Adventure and adventurers -- Biography.
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Australia -- Description and travel.
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Caroline Islands -- Social life and customs.
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New South Wales -- Social life and customs.
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Also known as: Life of Ja's. O'Connell, the Pacific adventurer : containing passages of adventure and hair-breadth escapes during a residence of eleven years in New-Holland and the Caroline Islands : from his own memoranda. |
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