Author: Braydon, Simon and Rober Songhurst:
Title: The Diary of Joseph Sams: An Emigrant in the "Northumberland" 1874.
Description: London, HMSO, 1982. 1st Ed., part of the National Maritime Museum's Recollections series, H/B navy cloth bds, gold lettering on spine, Mint in Mint unclipped d/w, contents also Mint with map and b/w photographic plates. This is the diary kept by Joseph Sams during his 8 week passage on the 'Northumberland' destined for Melbourne, Australia. It has been supplemented with useful information on 19th Century emigration to Australia by Captain Simon Braydon and his friend Robert Songhurst.

Keywords: emigration, Australia, diary, history, travel, Melbourne, ship, migration, voyage, migrant. 011290341X