George Colman Green. The thirty-sixth voyage of the Afric (White Star liner) to Australia, 21 December 1912-09 February 1913

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Bound typescript volume with watercolours and added manuscript notes.

The typescript comprises the diary (53pp.) of his voyage on the Afric from Liverpool to Melbourne, 26 December 1912 - 9 February 1913, with some later manuscript annotations, and a few sketches and newspaper cuttings. The entries refer to the weather, the seas, sightings of other ships, fellow-passengers, sightings of whales and albatrosses, reading, concerts, theatrical productions, a lecture by one of the passengers, the journalist Henry Stead, visits to Cape Town and an ascent of Table Mountain, the formation of a labour exchange and information bureau on the ship, huge seas and a hurricane in the Indian Ocean, landings at Albany and Adelaide, and the arrival at Melbourne (2 February 1913), and Green's search for employment. There are sketches of the lighthouse at Breaksea Island, Albany, a black swan, Port Phillip Bay and the centre of Melbourne.

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