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Title: Narrative of a voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic
Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, in
... 1829-31.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
GEOLOGY collection includes books from the British Library
digitised by Microsoft. The works in this collection contain a
number of maps, charts, and tables from the 16th to the 19th
centuries documenting geological features of the natural world.
Also contained are textbooks and early scientific studies that
catalogue and chronicle the human stance toward water and land use.
Readers will further enjoy early historical maps of rivers and
shorelines demonstrating the artistry of journeymen, cartographers,
and illustrators. ++++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: ++++ British Library Morrell, Abby Jane;
1833. 12 . 1045.i.19.
Abby Jane Morrell (b. 1809) was the wife of ship captain and
explorer Benjamin Morrell (1795 1839). During the nineteenth
century it became more common for women to join their husbands on
voyages, and Abby insisted on accompanying her husband on his
fourth voyage. They left America for the Pacific in 1829 on board
the Antarctic, which visited the Auckland Islands and Pacific
Islands in search of commercial gain, before returning via the
Azores in 1831. First published in 1833, this is Abby's account of
their journey. It was ghostwritten by the American author Samuel
Knapp (1783 1838) and followed the publication of Benjamin
Morrell's own account as part of A Narrative of Four Voyages (also
reissued in this series). It includes an account of the violent
conflicts with the inhabitants of some of the Pacific Islands, and
also contains Abby's comments on the 'amelioration of the condition
of American Seamen'.
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