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A Journal, of a Young Man of Massachusetts - Late a Surgeon on Board an American Privateer, Who Was Captured at Sea by the British in May, Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen, and Was Confined First, at Melville Island, Halifax, Then at Chatham, in England, ... (Paperback)
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Title: A journal, of a young man of Massachusetts: late a surgeon
on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the
British in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined
first, at Melville island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England,
and last at Dartmoor prison: interspersed with observations,
anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and
political characters of three nations: to which is added, a correct
engraving of Dartmoor prison, representing the massacre of American
prisoners.Author: Benjamin WaterhousePublisher: Gale, Sabin
Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03653400CollectionID:
CTRG01-B2041PublicationDate: 18160101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: "A novel founded on fact."-- Cf. Alliborne, Dict. of
authors. Usually considered a work of fiction by Waterhouse -- and
so listed by Wright -- but according to H. R. Viets, it was edited
by Waterhouse from a manuscript by Amos G. Babcock. Cf. Yale
journal of biology and medicine, vol. 12 (July, 1940)Collation: 228
p., 1] fold. leaf of plates; 19 cm
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