Author: SHANKLAND, Peter
Title: Byron of the Wager
Description: New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 288pp. Maps, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. First American edition. Exciting account (mostly based on the journals of Midshipman John Byron, future grandfather to poet Lord Byron) of the wreck of the "Wager," an 18th century English supply ship, and the remaining crew's struggle to survive. .

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