- Bib ID:
- 1411560
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lutwyche, Alfred, 1810-1880
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. SR 910.452 L974 copy
- Description:
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- Sydney : Waugh and Cox, 1854
- 48 p. ; 17 cm.
- Summary:
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Lutwyche sailed to Australia in June 1853 on board the Meridian which was wrecked off Amsterdam Island on 24 August. Three of 108 passengers lost their lives. The survivors were rescued by Captain Isaac Ludlow of the American whaler Monmouth and taken to Mauritius where the government found them passages to Sydney. Lutwyche arrived on board the Colvin on 30 December. He wrote an account of the wreck and their rescue which appeared in the Morning chronicle in Dec. 1853. The following year it was reprinted in London and a French language ed. was also published. This scarce Sydney printing was a revised and expanded version of the Narrative. This unrecorded edition not known to Ferguson may have been published for limited distribution within Lutwyche's family.
- Notes:
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- National Library of Australia's copy inscribed in ink by the author, "Edgar Lutwyche from his affectionate brother".
- SR 910.452 L974 copy also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-52793640
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Lutwyche, Edgar, 1811-1866, former owner
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