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Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia: Gregory Wane, on Behalf of the Queenscliff Maritime Museum , 2017. 96pp. B/white halftone illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper very good+. From the rear panel. "Margaret Basset had always known about an old diary . . . After her father died and the family farm was being prepared for sale, she found the battered, soft leather-covered diary. It was the personal journal of John Clark, beginning in 1853 . . . 15-year-old John and his parents were emigrating from Scotland to Melbourne . . . Just hours away from their destination John's parents were drowned after their ship hit a reef near Ocean Grove. John survived the wreck. He wrote a detailed account of the shipwreck . . . and continued to journal his life in Victoria until he left Colac in 1883 . . . " Book weight approx. 160g. (This book will post as a small parcel and postage charge will be reduced accordingly). First Edition. Softcover. Very Good+. 8vo -… Read More