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W. B. Cramp
An early 19th-century travel writer, remembered for a vivid firsthand account of a voyage to India, a shipwreck aboard the Lady Castlereagh, and observations of New South Wales. The surviving record is thin, which gives the book an extra sense of immediacy: the author is known mainly through the journey itself.
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About the author
W. B. Cramp is known for Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales, published in 1823. The book survives through library catalogs and public-domain editions, and it presents a firsthand travel narrative from the age of long sea voyages and colonial expansion.
The account follows a journey from England toward India, includes the wreck of the Lady Castlereagh, and records the author's impressions of places and people encountered along the way. Modern listings and bookseller descriptions consistently treat it as a memoir-like travel narrative by Cramp rather than a later retelling.
Very little biographical information about the author appears to be readily documented online beyond this work. For many readers, that makes the book itself the clearest introduction to Cramp: practical, observant, and shaped by the dangers and uncertainties of travel in the early 1800s.