Russell, W Clark — The Emigrant Ship

Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1894 a new edition. Cloth, G+. 400pp, endpapers heavily foxed & margins of the pages less so, gathers a little shaken, a good reading copy, cloth just a little rubbed at the edges. Seafaring fiction from the Anglo American maritime author William Russell Clark [ 1844 - 1911 ]. This story concerns a emmigrant ship full of women enroute to Australia with the hope of finding husbands & fortune. The ships crew decide to steer a new course to a remote South Sea island & start a colony. Adventures ensue when a new navigator decides to steer the ship back to Australia, with the women as the crew.