Given command of HMS Roebuck, the old buccaneer sails from the Downs by way of Tenerife, the Cape Verde Islands and Bahia in Brazil to the western coast of New Holland. He records harbours, winds, wines, birds, fish and plants with a naturalist’s eye, and describes the land and people of the Australian shore.
A key early account of Australia by one of the great English navigators and observers. Download the free EPUB.