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Author Name
Godwin, George.
Title VANCOUVER: A LIFE, 1757-1798.
Binding Hard Cover
Book Condition Good
Edition First Edition
Publisher London Philip Allan 1930
Seller ID 28346
308 pp, 9 1/8" H. Pale lilac/gray cloth with dark blue lettering/banding on spine. B&w reproductions, charts - all present, including large folded map in pocket at rear. Contents: Preface; Early Days; With Cook to Hawaii; With Rodney and Gardner; The Nootka Affair; Start of the Great Voyages; Otahiti; The Fabled Coast; Quadra and Vancouver; The Spanish Settlements; The Lawgiver; Northward Again; The Southern Track; King George Men; Alaska; Homeward Bound; Work and Worry; The Last Year; Appendix; Bibliography; Index. Tiny scuffs to fore-edge of pages 277 to 298, rear map has one tiny tear archivally taped and one or two wrinkles, very light browning to edges of text block, a few tiny foxing marks and faint small stains on boards, light fading to spine color.
Explorers,
Exploration,
Captain
George
Vancouver,
North-west
Coast,
America,
Joseph
Baker,
Sir
Joseph
Banks,
Robert
Barrie,
William
R.
Broughton,
Cape
Decision,
Cape
Horn,
Chatham,
Charles
Clerke,
James
Cook,
Cook's
River,
Dadalus,
Transports,
Juan
De
Fuca,
Straits,
Deptford,
Discipline,
Discovery,
Repairs,
Victualling,
Sailing
Ships,
18th
Century,
Falmouth,
Mr.
Gooch,
Cape
Good
Hope,
Lord
Renville,
Lieutenant
Hergest,
James
Johnstone,
James
King,
King's
Lynn,
Livestock,
Thomas
Manby,
John
Meares,
Mexico,
Monterrey,
Evan
Nepean,
New
Albion,
Nootka,
North-west
Passage,
Owhyhee,
Oahu,
Thomas
Pitt,
Port
Jackson,
Peter
Puget,
Juan
Francisco
De
La
Quadra,
Rendezvous,
Resolution,
St.
Blas,
St.
Helena,
Sandwich
Islands,
Society
Islands,
Spithead,
Philip
Stephens,
Spelman
Swaine,
James
Kykes,
King
Tamaahmaah,
Valparaiso,
Van
Diemen's
Land,
Joseph
Whidbey.
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