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W. B. Cramp

An early 19th-century traveler and memoirist, remembered for a vivid firsthand account of a voyage to India, a shipwreck aboard the Lady Castlereagh, and observations of New South Wales. His surviving work has the pull of real experience, mixing adventure, danger, and travel writing in one compact narrative.

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Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales

Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales

by W. B. Cramp

About the author

Very little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm, but his published work shows him as a firsthand observer of long-distance sea travel in the early 1800s.

He is known for Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales, a travel memoir that combines seafaring adventure with eyewitness description. The book’s title alone suggests the wide range of his experience: a journey to India, the drama of shipwreck, and impressions of colonial Australia.

For modern listeners, his appeal lies in that direct, lived quality. Rather than polished fiction, his writing offers a historical voice from an age of ocean voyages and uncertain travel, making it interesting both as an adventure story and as a document of its time.