Author(s): Anthony Hope

Colonial History

The story of the illegitimate son of a convict woman. Born in Parramatta in 1791, he went to sea at thirteen years of age, destined to become the first Australian born master mariner, a trader, explorer and entrepreneur. 

Moving to Hobart Town in 1814, he continued whaling and sealing adventures, including an epic circumnavigation of Van Diemen's Land in 1815/16 at twenty-five year of age in an open thirty foot, five oared whaling boat.