Author: Samuel PurchasPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Purchas His Pilgrimage; Or, Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages ... in Foure Parts. This First Containeth a ... Historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the Ilands Adjacent ... With Briefe Descriptions, Etc
Author: Samuel PurchasPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: John Russell BartlettPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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A Bibliography of the Anthropology of Peru
Author: George Amos DorseyPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Publication
Author: Edward Herbert ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publication
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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A Bibliography of the State of Maine from the Earliest Period to 1891
Author: Joseph WilliamsonPublisher:
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
First Invaders
Author: Alan TwiggPublisher: Literary Origins of British Company
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This unprecedented volume about British Columbia's earliest authors and first explorers (prior to 1800) provides a fascinating range of characters, events and intrigues. The names Cook and Quadra ring a bell for most of us, as do Bering and Vancouver, but what about the first year-round European resident of B.C., the Irish drunkard John Mackay? He voluntarily wintered at Nootka Sound in 1786 well before the more famous John Jewitt became the so-called "white slave" of Chief Maquinna in 1803. A year later the first European woman to visit and write about British Columbia was the eighteen-year-old bride Frances Barkley. She circumnavigated the globe with her husband after making a lasting impression with her long red hair at Friendly Cove in 1787. And how much do we know about the Greek-born navigator Juan de Fuca? Or the Machiavelli of the maritime fur trade, John Meares? More than 50 pre-nineteenth-century characters are presented - each with his or her own entry and bibliography. Alan Twigg has researched and skilfully introduced the first people to write about the west coast of Canada, provided extracts, gathered images, taken photographs and let the composite story unravel like a mini-series. First Invaders concludes with Alexander Mackenzie and his over-land trek to the Pacific in 1793, after providing ample coverage of the many lesser-known Spaniards and Americans who arrived in the wake of Captain James Cook in 1778 - and Captain Juan Pérez, the "discoverer" of British Columbia, in 1774.
