The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle, in Several Parts of the World: Intermix'd with the Story of Mrs. Villars, an English Lady with Who
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Erscheinungsdatum
01.02.2012
Verlag
Gale Ecco, Sabin AmericanaSeitenzahl
358
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24.6/18.9/1.9 cm
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640 g
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Englisch
ISBN
978-1-275-64341-3
Title: The voyages and adventures of Captain Robert Boyle, in several parts of the world: intermix'd with the story of Mrs. Villars, an English lady with whom he made his surprizing escape from Barbary, the history of an Italian captive, and the life of Don Pedro Aquilio, &c., full of various and amazing turns of fortune: to which is added The voyage, shipwreck, and miraculous preservation of Richard Castleman, gent., with a descripton of the city of Philadelphia and the country of Pensylvania.Author: W R ChetwoodPublisher: 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: SABCP00973300CollectionID: CTRG93-B346PublicationDate: 17260101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Attributed to William Chetwood.--Cf. Beasley, J.C., A check list of prose fiction published in England 1740-1749, p. 24; sometimes attributed to Benjamin Victor and Daniel Defoe--Cf. CBEL, v. 2, p. 539. "Boyle's narrative is probably fictitious, but that of Castleman bears mark of authenticity."--Rich's Bibl. americana nova. Title on added t.p.: The voyage, shipwreck, and miraculous escape of Richard Castleman.Collation: 350 p., [1] leaf of plates: ill
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