Sophy Under Sail

In a slim red leather note book discovered among old family possessions, Irene Taylor found a year's diary of her Great-Aunt Sophy who set out for Australia in 1851 in the sailing ship Candahar to join her future husband in Adelaide.

From this very human and personal document comes a picturesque and interesting story of a young woman of twenty-five from a sheltered Victorian Background, leaving her home and family in England and braving the hazardous voyage of 14, 000 miles to anew country at the other end of the world.