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The Remarkable Captain James Kelly Of Van Diemen's LandStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionThe story of the illegitimate son of a convict woman. Born in Parramatta in 1791, he went to sea at thirteen years of age, destined to become the first Australian born master mariner, a trader, explorer and entrepreneur. Moving to Hobart Town in 1814, he continued whaling and sealing adventures, including an epic circumnavigation of Van Diemen's Land in 1815/16 at twenty-five year of age in an open thirty foot, five oared whaling boat. |