Murry, Hugh (ed.): Adventures of British Seamen in the Southern Ocean, Displaying the Striking Contrasts Which the Human Character Exhibits in an Uncivilized State

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Murry, Hugh (ed.): : Adventures of British Seamen in the Southern Ocean, Displaying the Striking Contrasts Which the Human Character Exhibits in an Uncivilized State

8vo. pp. xi, [i], 353, [i] including half title, + engraved portrait frontis. (‘Tippahee, a New Zealand Chief’) and addtional steel-engraved title with vignette. Publisher’s cloth, somehwat rubbed, worn at headcaps, with original paper-label.

Volume IV in the Constable’s Miscellany series, the collection includes accounts of the wreck of the Antelope off the ‘Pelews’ (and anecdotes of Prince Lee Boo); the mutiny on the Bounty, Bligh’s subsequent voyage in an open boat, the wreck of the Pandora and the rediscovery of the mutineers on Pitcairn; the wreck of the Boyd off New Zealand (hence the frontispiece).

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