Author: GRANT, JAMES.
Title: The Narrative Of A Voyage Of Discovery, Performed In His Majesty's Vessel the Lady Nelson, Of Sixty Tons Burthen, With Sliding Keels, In The Years 1800, 1801, And 1802, To New South Wales. Including Remarks on the Cape De Verd Islands, Cape Of Good Hope, the hitherto Unknown Parts of New Holland, discovered by him in his Passage (the first ever attempted from Europe) through the Streight separating that Island from the Land discovered by Van Dieman: Together With Various Details of his Interviews with the Natives of New South Wales; Obfervations on the Soil, Natural Productions, &c. not known or very slightly treated of by former Navigators; with his Voyage home in the Brig Anna Josepha round Cape Horn; and an Account of the Present State of Falkland Islands.
Description: Facsimile Edition; 4to; pp. (ii), (xii), v-xxvi, 195; large folding frontispiece (A Sketch of the Boats & a Cutter with Sliding Keels,.), 1 full-page colour illustrations, 4 b/w. full-page illustrations, 1 folding colour map, ( The Southern Part of New Holland), appendix; original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, light browning to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. Melbourne, Heritage Publications, n.d. Includes remarks by the Master and Lieutenant on performance of the sliding keel and the ship. Interestingly the meeting with an American whaler at the Falklands and the exchange of supplies and information on the use of potatoes to prevent scurvy. Captain Grant also took his vessel to Wilson's Promontory, Western Port bay and Churchill Island where he planted crops.

Keywords: Australian discovery exploration maritime new south wales history local Cayley Western Port Westernport Coal Governor King Hunter