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MURRAY, H. - Adventures Of British Seamen In The Southern Ocean Displaying the Striking Contrasts which the Human Character Exhibits in an Uncivilised State.

Title: Adventures Of British Seamen In The Southern Ocean Displaying the Striking Contrasts which the Human Character Exhibits in an Uncivilised State.
Description: First Edition; 12mo; pp. xi, 353; 1 full page plate; missing original stiff wrapper, has modern plain blue wrapper, previous owner's bookplate on verso front wrapper, pages browned, a good copy. Edinburgh, Constable and Co, 1827. Contains three separate stories of British maritime adventures being the Shipwreck of the Antelope, Mutiny of the Bounty and Particulars of the Destruction of a British Vessel on the Coast of New Zealand with Anecdotes of some New Zealand Chiefs.

Keywords: maritime history south pacific region British sailors Mutiny on the Bounty Shipwreck of the Antelope

Price: AUD 95.00 = appr. US$ 65.73 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 86950