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A voyage to the South Sea, and round the world: perform'd in the years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711: containing a journal of all memorable transactions
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Title: A voyage to the South Sea, and round the world: perform'd in the years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711: containing a journal of all memorable transactions during the said voyage ... the taking of the towns of Puna and Guayaquil, and several prizes ... a description of the American coasts, from Tierra del Fuego in the south, to California in the north ... an historical account of all those countries from the best authors ... wherein an account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk ... during the four years and four months he liv'd upon the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandes.
Author: Cooke, Edward, Captain
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
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The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP00982901
CollectionID: CTRG93-B379
PublicationDate: 17120101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: Title on added t.p. (Vol. 2): A voyage to the South Sea ... by the ships Duke and Duchess of Bristol ... the description of all the American coasts along the South Sea, with above 300 bearings of the land, the principal harbours, and three large charts, all taken from the Spanish original draughts, never before printed: with a table of the latitudes and longitudes ... Includes index. An account of the voyage under command of Woodes Rogers.
Collation: 2 v.: ill., maps; 20 cm
Title: A voyage to the South Sea, and round the world: perform'd in the years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711: containing a journal of all memorable transactions during the said voyage ... the taking of the towns of Puna and Guayaquil, and several prizes ... a description of the American coasts, from Tierra del Fuego in the south, to California in the north ... an historical account of all those countries from the best authors ... wherein an account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk ... during the four years and four months he liv'd upon the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandes.
Author: Cooke, Edward, Captain
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
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The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP00982901
CollectionID: CTRG93-B379
PublicationDate: 17120101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: Title on added t.p. (Vol. 2): A voyage to the South Sea ... by the ships Duke and Duchess of Bristol ... the description of all the American coasts along the South Sea, with above 300 bearings of the land, the principal harbours, and three large charts, all taken from the Spanish original draughts, never before printed: with a table of the latitudes and longitudes ... Includes index. An account of the voyage under command of Woodes Rogers.
Collation: 2 v.: ill., maps; 20 cm
Paperback
$27.95