Hubert Phelps Whitmarsh, aged 21, after having spent seven years before the mast, arrived in Adelaide in the mid 1880's.

His crowded life as a "sailor, sundowner, miner, shepherd, fishmonger, barber, roustabout, officer, diver and pearler" in South Australia, New South Wales and Western Australia is described with vivid pictures of people and places of Silverton, Geraldton, Cossack, Roebourne, and the Kimberley coast.

He returned to England in 1888 and was later a journalist in the United States.

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