Author: COLLIS, Louise
Title: Soldier in Paradise: The Life of Captain John Stedman, 1744-1797
Description: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Terra cotta cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 231pp. Illustrations, map, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Slight jacket edgewear; nonauthorial gift inscription on inner flyleaf. Handsome first U.S. edition of this biography of an 18th century Dutch/Scottish soldier and soldier who went to Dutch Giana to help fight a slave revolt and ended up marrying a slave girl. .

Keywords: Colonial Americana


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