Download or read book Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia written by James Bell and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide, an infant colony half a world away and not yet two years old. He left behind family, good friends and the mysterious C.P., a young woman with whom he hoped one day to be reunited."