Research Catalog

Title

William Stewart : sealing captain, trader, and speculator / by John O.C. Ross.

Author

Ross, John O'C. (John O'Connell), 1916-1983

Publication

Canberra : [Roebuck Society], 1987.

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Additional Authors

Roebuck Society.

Description

xi, 220 p., 8 p. of plates : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Roebuck Society publication ; no. 37

Uniform Title

Roebuck Society publication ; no. 37.

Subject

• Stewart, William, 1776-1851
• To 1840
• Sealing > New Zealand
• Stewart Island/Rakiura (N.Z.) > History

Genre/Form

• History
• Biographies
• History.

Note

• Includes index.
• "A Roebuck book."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical notes: p. 193-208.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Stewart the sealer : Out of Port Jackson -- Bass Strait sealer -- Antipodes & Smith's Strait -- Return from exile -- Saga of the Fly -- Stewart of Stewart Island : Matter of identity -- Pacific rendezvous -- Sandalwood & Spanish dollars -- Voyage of the Pegasus -- Stewart charts -- Return of the sealer : Another matter of identity -- Colonist -- Horeke Establishment -- Darling voyage -- Emma alias Taepo -- brig Bee -- Retreat to Mercury Bay -- Illustrations, charts & maps -- Australia, New Zealand, Tasman Sea & Southern Ocean. J. Arrowsmith, 1832. -- Woolloomooloo, Port Jackson. Seat of John Palmer, Esq., 1803 -- Reproduction of the old copy of the Smith Chart of Foveaux Strait, 1804 -- Australian Colonial brig Perserverance built for R. Campbell in 1807.

ISBN

• 090943428X (corrected)
• 0909434288 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^^88211596^

OCLC

• 18367236
• SCSB-12432132

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library