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Old-Time Ships of Salem

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Salem, Massachusetts, Essex Institute: 1917

Seller ID: 2303556

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Fair

Binder's copy. Wrappers loose but included. 1917 Large Softcover. 70 pp. A history of ships in Salem, Massachusetts. Includes color illustrations.
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Sea Breezes: The P.S.N.C. Magazine, February, 1934, No. 171, Starts Vol. XVIII

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: ., 1934

Seller ID: 2309444

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Spine faintly toned, front board slightly cocked. 1934 Hard Cover. 320 pp. Vol. XVIII, Nos. 171-180, February - November, 1934, with index. A collection of articles on sailing.
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

By: Alexander, Caroline

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2003

Seller ID: 2208326

ISBN: 067003133X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. Near Fine. 2003 Hard Cover. 491 pp. An account of the actual events surrounding the legendary conflict aboard theHMS Bountyfocuses on the court-martial of its ten mutineers, citing the breakdown and exile of Master's Mate Fletcher Christian and Lieutenant Bligh's navigation talents.
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

By: Alexander, Caroline

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2003

Seller ID: 2281307

ISBN: 067003133X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Bottom edge lightly bumped. 2003 Hard Cover. 491 pp. An account of the actual events surrounding the legendary conflict aboard theHMS Bountyfocuses on the court-martial of its ten mutineers, citing the breakdown and exile of Master's Mate Fletcher Christian and Lieutenant Bligh's navigation talents.
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

By: Alexander, Caroline

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2003

Seller ID: 2281308

ISBN: 067003133X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Corners pushed, jacket corners lightly rubbed. 2003 Hard Cover. 491 pp. An account of the actual events surrounding the legendary conflict aboard theHMS Bountyfocuses on the court-martial of its ten mutineers, citing the breakdown and exile of Master's Mate Fletcher Christian and Lieutenant Bligh's navigation talents.
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By the Wind (A Van Nostrand Sporting Book)

By: Baum, Richard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.: 1962

Seller ID: 2309442

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket clipped, jacket rubbed, jacket reverse reinforced with tape. Top page ridge lightly foxed, ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1962 Hard Cover. xiii, 200 pp. A cruising man's book of truly skillful seamanship over thousands of miles of open ocean in a small sailboat.
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Image for The Arcturus Adventure: An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition, with 77 Illustrations from Colored Plates, Photographs and Maps

The Arcturus Adventure: An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition, with 77 Illustrations from Colored Plates, Photographs and Maps

By: Beebe, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press: 1926

Seller ID: 2278347

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Lacks jacket. Rear board edge a bit soiled, front hinge beginning to weaken, ink gift note on front flyleaf, front and end matter and plates lightly foxed. 1926 Hard Cover. xix, [1], 439, [1] pp. 8vo. Original forest green cloth, blind-stamped borders, gilt titles. Color illustrated endpapers, color plates, black & white photographs, maps. Recounts the first oceanographic expedition of the New York Zoological society, an attempt to investigate the Sargasso Sea and the Humboldt Current. Beebe was also known for his deep sea dives in the Bathysphere designed for him by Otis Barton...
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Image for Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N.

Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N.

By: Beechey, F.W.

Price: $1,350.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Carey & Lea: 1832

Seller ID: 1958570

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First American edition. Boards rubbed with some loss from spine label and light spots to boards, foxed throughout, Oxford bookstore bookplate on front endpaper. 1832 Hard Cover. xi, 493 pp. 8vo. 24-page publisher catalog bound in following text. Originally published in England in 1831. Sabin 4347: Captain Beechey and Sir John Franklin had arrived within fifty leagues of each other, when the latter was compelled by the weather to return. One of the most valuable of modern voyages, containing a most interesting visit to Pitcairn's Island, the coast of California, etc. Howes B-309: Interesting ac...
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The Dragon's Triangle

By: Berlitz, Charles

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Wynwood Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2296325

ISBN: 0922066191

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped. 1989 Hard Cover. 208 pp. The Devil's Sea, also known as the Dragon's Triangle, the Formosa Triangle and the Pacific Bermuda Triangle, is a region of the Pacific around Miyake Island, about 100 km south of Tokyo. The size and area varies with the report (the only reports stem from the 1950s), with various reports placing it 70 miles from an unspecified part of Japan's east coast, 300 miles from the coast, and even near Iwo Jima, 750 miles from the coast. The story is apparently based on a few articles published in Japanese newspapers in January 1955 o...
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Image for Voyage Fait par Ordre de l'Imperatrice de Russie Catherine II, Dans le Nord de la Russia Asiatique, Dans la Mer Glaciale, Dans la Mer d'Anadyr, et sur les Cotes de l'Amerique, Depuis 1785 Jusqu'en 1794, in Two Volumes.

Voyage Fait par Ordre de l'Imperatrice de Russie Catherine II, Dans le Nord de la Russia Asiatique, Dans la Mer Glaciale, Dans la Mer d'Anadyr, et sur les Cotes de l'Amerique, Depuis 1785 Jusqu'en 1794, in Two Volumes.

By: Billings, Commodore [Joseph]; Sauer, M. [Martin]; Castera, J.

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire: 1802

Seller ID: 2289768

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First French translation of the work published in English the same year. Lacks the large atlas volume. Rebound with new end sheets. Bottom corner torn from last text page in first volume (no loss of text), faintly foxed throughout. 1802 Hard Cover. xxiv, 385, [1]; 418 pp. 8vo. French text. An account of Commodore Joseph Billings's expedition in search of a northeast passage on behalf of Catherine the Great (1785-1794), which resulted in significant advances in maps of Siberia, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Prince William Sound, etc.
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First Across the Continent: The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1803-4-5

By: Brooks, Noah; Elder, Karen; Luke, John A.; Bridges, Jeff

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1901

Seller ID: 2290971

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Includes folding map following text. Faint stain to top marginal corner of some pages, front free endpaper removed, some tiny white spotting on rear board (paint spatter?). 1901 Hard Cover. xii, [2], 365, [3] pp. 8vo. Olive cloth, gilt and black titles, buffalo head vignette and braided border on front board, tepee vignette on spine. An account of one of the most important exploring expeditions in American history, the Lewis and Clark Expedition (A.K.A. the Corps of Discovery Expedition). Brooks details the progress of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from Pittsburgh, Pennsylv...
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Reconquest of Mexico: An Amiable Journey in Pursuit of Cortes [Cortez]

By: Bruccoli, Matthew J.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Vanguard Press: 1974

Seller ID: 2309731

ISBN: 0814907423

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket spine faded, jacket clipped, front jacket flap creased. Ink price on front free endpaper. 1974 Hard Cover. 252 pp. Not being a Spanish explorer by birth or profession, he [Matthew J. Bruccoli] read what he could of Cortes in Mexico and, shod in a pair of ersatz-suede shoes, themselves easily conquered, proceeded in the Conqueror's footsteps.--jacket
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Stories of Whales and Other Sea Creatures

By: Bullen, Frank T.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, The Boy's Own Paper Office:

Seller ID: 2302777

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No publisher date. Jacket edges lightly rubbed with a few very minor chips, front jacket flap clipped with price intact. 148 pp. Frontispiece and 14 plates by Thomas Carreras. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frank Thomas Bullen (18571915), British author and novelist, was born of poor parents in Paddington, London, on 5 April 1857, and was educated for a few years at a dame school and Westbourne school, Paddington. At the age of 9 he left school and took up work as an errand boy. In 1869 he went to sea and travelled to all parts of the world in various capacities including that of second mate of the Harbing...
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The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World after Sperm Whales

By: Bullen, Frank T. [Thomas]

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1926

Seller ID: 2291163

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First thus. Front hinge beginning to weaken, gilt spine titles partially rubbed away. 1926 Hard Cover. xix, [1], 301, [3] pp. 4to. Original black cloth, blind-stamped borders, gilt titles and decorations. Color plates by Mead Schaeffer, map of Cachalot's course precedes text, illustrated endpapers. A travelogue based partially on the author's personal experience of ten years at sea. It was popular enough that Rudyard Kipling's correspondence includes mention of him reading it to his children, and Bullen's life and writing career has been compared to that of Joseph Conrad.
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The Western Country in the 17th Century: The Memoirs of Lamothe Cadillac and Pierre Liette (The Lakeside Classics, Vol. 45)

By: Cadillac, Lamothe; Liette, Pierre; Quaife, Milo Milton

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Lakeside Press: 1947

Seller ID: 2306220

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Spine head and spine base lightly rubbed. 1947 Hard Cover. xxx, 181 pp. Maroon cloth boards. Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (/?kd?lk/, French: [kadijak]; March 5, 1658 October 16, 1730), born Antoine Laumet, was a French explorer and adventurer in New France which stretched from Eastern Canada to Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico. He rose from a modest beginning in Acadia in 1683 as an explorer, trapper, and a trader of alcohol and furs, and he achieved various positions of political importance in the colony. He was the commander of Fort de Buade in St. Ignace, Michigan, in ...
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Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West

By: Carvalho, Solomon Nunes; Korn, Bertram W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America: 1954

Seller ID: 2266166

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1954 reissue of 1857 edition, with portraits and paintings by Carvalho added for this edition. Endpapers illustrated with the route of Fremont's fifth exploratory expedition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips, front jacket flap price-clipped. 328 pp. ...Solomon Nunes Carvalho was closely associated with Jewish life. He was able to pass on to the new communities of the Far West the benefit of his own Jewish experience and knowledge. Dr. Korn also traces Carvalho's artistic career, his political activities in behalf of Fremont when the latter was the first national candidate of the new ...
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Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah

By: Chaffin, Tom

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Hill and Wang: 2007

Seller ID: 2304710

ISBN: 0809085046

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Water damage. 2007 Trade Paperback. x, 432 pp. The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamerThe Sea Kingleft Londonon October, 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, as the ship was rechristened and outfitted for war. With new gun ports cut to accommodate additional cannon, theCSS Shenandoahcommenced the last, most quixotic sea story of the Civil War, the 58,000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacysthird most successful merchant raider. Before its voyage was over, thirty-two Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would b...
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Captains Outrageous: The Amazing Voyage of the Glory Be

By: Clark, Morton Gill

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company: 1938

Seller ID: 2008315

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Very good in good jacket. Jacket heavily rubbed, reverse of jacket spine lightly stained, jacket flap corners trimmed (list price still present). 1938 Hard Cover. viii, 295 pp. 8vo. A nautical adventure in the South Pacific aboard the schooner Glory Be. From the jacket: The hilarious (and incredible) story of four young men in a boat - their voyage from Tahiti to Cannes with a madcap company and crew.
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The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson

By: Coleman, Terry

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 2202419

ISBN: 0195147413

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Top page ridge very lightly foxed. Jacket very faintly toned. 2002 Hard Cover. xix, 424 pp. Admiral Horatio Nelson captures our imaginations like few other military figures. A mixture of tactical originality, raw courage, cruelty, and romantic passion, Nelson in action was daring and direct, a paramount naval genius and a natural born predator. Now, inThe Nelson Touch: The Life andLegend of Horatio Nelson, novelist Terry Coleman provides a superb portrait of Britain's most revered naval figure. Here is a vivid account of Nelson's life, from his childhood and early career at sea-...
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The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson

By: Coleman, Terry

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 2202821

ISBN: 0195147413

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Top page ridge very lightly foxed. Near Fine. 2002 Hard Cover. xix, 424 pp. Includes color and black-and-white illustrations. Admiral Horatio Nelson captures our imaginations like few other military figures. A mixture of tactical originality, raw courage, cruelty, and romantic passion, Nelson in action was daring and direct, a paramount naval genius and a natural born predator. Now, in The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson, novelist Terry Coleman provides a superb portrait of Britain's most revered naval figure. Here is a vivid account of Nelson's life, from hi...
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Sailing Years: An Autobiography

By: Coles, K. Adlard

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, John De Graff: 1981

Seller ID: 2306693

ISBN: 0828600899

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. Slightly musty. 1981 Hard Cover. xi, 212 pp. Born at the beginning of the century, Adlard Coles started sailing in 1920, and his experience in cruising and racing since then has made him a world authority on heavy weather sailing. He is equally well known for his pilot books of the Channel Islands and French waters. In this interesting autobiography he tells us something of how he acquired that skill and knowledge, picking up victory in the 1950 Transatlantic race, RORC points championships in 1947, 1957 and 1963, a Royal Institute of Navigation Gold Med...
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Antarctic Odyssey: In the Footsteps of the South Polar Explorers

By: Collier, Graham and Patricia Graham

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf: 1999

Seller ID: 2306445

ISBN: 0786706538

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Tear along bottom edge of jacket previously mended with tape, jacket spine head rubbed. 1999 Large Hardcover. xiv, 194 pp. Both a journey in the footsteps of others and an account of the author's own experiences with the spectacular wildlife: from Emperor penguins to skuas, which prey on their chicks, to leopard seals and the Orcas. Through his reflections and observations upon the waste of iridescent ice and snow, the book captures the spirit of this place, now the only uninhabited continent and the last place on earth to be explored. He recounts the famous stories of the early...
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Doctor Kane of the Arctic Seas

By: Corner, George W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Temple University Press: 1972

Seller ID: 2269161

ISBN: 0877220220

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine faintly toned. 1972 Hard Cover. xiii, 306 pp. Elisha Kent Kane (February 28, 1820 February 16, 1857) was an American explorer, and a medical officer in the United States Navy during the first half of the 19th century. He was a member of two Arctic expeditions to rescue the explorer Sir John Franklin. He was present at the discovery of Franklin's first winter camp, but he did not find out what had happened to the fatal expedition.
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Hernando Cortes: Five Letters, 1519-1526 (The Broadway Travellers Series)

By: Cortes, Hernando; Morris, J. Bayard; Ross, E. Denison; Power, Eileen

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.: 1928

Seller ID: 2293319

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Edges, endpapers, and a few text pages lightly foxed, spine faded. 1928 Hard Cover. xlvii, [1], 388, [10] pp. 8vo. Five letters by the Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that ultimately caused the collapse of the Aztec Empire. These were written during and immediately after his conquest of what is now Mexico. Translated, with an introduction, by J. Bayard Morris.
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The Climax of a World Quest: The Story of Puget Sound, the Modern Mediterranean of the Pacific

By: Cotterill, George F.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Seattle, Washington, Olypmic Publishing Company: 1927

Seller ID: 2305230

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Top page ridge lightly foxed, light stain on bottom page ridge, pages faintly toned. 1927 Hard Cover. 226 pp. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine and on front board. Decorated endpapers. Includes two maps. Puget Sound (/?pju?d??t/) is a sound of the Pacific Northwest, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. It is located along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine[3] system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with one major and two minor connections to the open Pacific Ocean via the Strait of Juan de F...
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The Ultimate Book of Lighthouses

By: Crompton, Samuel Willard; Rhein, Michael J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: San Diego, CA, Thunder Bay Press: 2003

Seller ID: 2264665

ISBN: 1592231020

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. 2003 Large Hardcover. 352 pp. The sheer beauty of the elegant, lonely lighthouses along our shores - and their unspoiled, scenic natural settings - has captivated our collective imagination. More than simply picturesque, the lighthouse has become an enduring symbol of salvation, fortitude, and heroic folklore. The Ultimate Book of Lighthouses is a panoramic, lavishly illustrated history of these legendary buildings and celebrates the rich heritage of our ancestors' courageous efforts to grade manners through treacherous seas and storms.
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The City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo

By: d'Ancona, Jacob; Selbourne, David

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Citadel Press: 2000

Seller ID: 2294989

ISBN: 1559725230

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket reverse lightly foxed, remainder mark on page base. 2000 Hard Cover. xv, [5], 538 pp. In 1270 a scholarly Jewish merchant called Jacob d'Ancona set out on a voyage from Italy. A year later, he arrived in China at the coastal metropolis of Zaitun, the City of Light (now known as Quanzhou), four years before Marco Polo arrived at Xanadu in 1275. Nothing was known of this epochal journey until 1990, when David Selbourne was shown d'Ancona's account of his travels, a remarkable manuscript that had been hidden from public view for more than seven centuries. Eventually translat...
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Two Years Before The Mast [A Personal Narrative of Life At Sea] (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, The Franklin Library: 1977

Seller ID: 2307034

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1977 Full-Leather. xv, 554, [1] pp. 8vo. Printed on laid paper. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Ronald Keller. Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 and published in 1840. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946....Two Years Before the Mast is a 1946 adventure film based on Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s travel book of the same name. It starred Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, ...
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One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest

By: Davis, Wade

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks: 1996

Seller ID: 2305788

ISBN: 0684834960

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Address label on front flyleaf. 1996 Trade Paperback. 537 pp. The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South AmericaRichard Evans Schultes and his protg Wade Davisan epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history. In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorio...
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The Odyssey of the Essex: The Dramatic Account of One of the Epic Voyages of the American Navy

By: Donovan, Frank

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc.: 1969

Seller ID: 2203091

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. Half-inch tear to top edge of jacket, jacket edges lightly rubbed, jacket spine toned. 1969 Hard Cover. v, 215 pp. The voyage of the heavily armed little frigate Essex setting out under Captain David Dixon Porter in late 1812 was destined to become one of the most dramatic cruises in the annals of the U.S. Navy.
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