The Australian Captive; or, An Authentic Narrative of Fifteen Years in the Life of William Jackman. in which, among Various Other Adventures, is Included a Forced Residence of a Year and a Half among the Cannibals of Nuyts' Land, on the Coast of the Grea…
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xvi, [17]-392, [4] pp. 8vo. Brown cloth, blind-stamped decorations, gilt titles. Two engraved frontispiece portraits of William Jackman from daguerreotypes, four engraved plates. An account of fifteen years in Australia, including time spent among aborigines, with reference to the Australian gold industry. The editor believes this to be the first account of a visitor to Australia who has 'returned from a forced and lengthened residence among the Anthropophagi of New Holland.'