Author: Villiers, Alan,
Title: Vanished Fleets: sea stories from Old Van Diemens Land.
Description: NY, Scribner, (1974). VG in VG DJ. Men who built a faraway colony. Maritime history of colorful land known as Tasmania. Slight tanning to page fore-edges,. Colony for the British Crown - girl ships which carried free females from Britain to the Colony. The first shipload was worse than women convicts, who could be locked up. The free females demoralized the sailors. Owner inscription top front endpaper.

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