Four travel journals. The Americas, Antarctica, an Africa, 1775-1874
London: Hakluyt Society, 2007. Large 8vo, pp. x, 404; 2 figures in the text and 8 maps; corrigenda leaf laid in, as issued; a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Issued as no. 18 in the Hakluyt Society's Third Series. Corrigenda sheet laid in. This volume offers annotated texts with biographical and historical introductions of four previously unpublished travel journals: the Journal of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (1775); the Journal of Commander Pringle Stokes on HMS Beagle in the Strait of Magellan (1827); the Journal of Midshipman Joseph Henry Kay on HMS Chanticleer, 1828-31; and Jacob Wainwright's Diary of the Transportation of Dr Livingstone's Body to the Coast (1873-4). Item #64170
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