Voyages and travels - 1700-1800
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A narrative of the extraordinary adventures , and sufferings by shipwreck & imprisonment, of Donald Campbell, Esq. Of Barbreck: With The Singular Humours Of His Tartar Guide, Hassan Artaz; Comprising The Occurrences of Four Years and Five Days, in an overland journey to India. Faithfully abstracted from Capt. Campbell's "letters to his son.".
Campbell, Donald, 1751-1804.Date: 1797- E-books
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An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire and a small part of Chinese Tartary. Together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's Ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan in the East India Company's service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin; as well as of their return to Europe; with notices of the several places where they stopped in their way out and home; being the islands of Madeira, Teneriffe, and St. Jago; [t]he port of Rio de Janeiro in South America; the islands of St. Helena, Tristan d'Acunha, and Amsterdam; the coast of Java, and Sumatra, the Nanka Isles, Pulo-Condore, and Cochin-China. Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, Knigh of the Bath, His Majesty's embassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China; Sir Erasmus Gower, commander of the expedition, and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy. By Sir George Staunton, Baronet. Honorary Doctor of Laws of the University of Oxford, fellow of the Royal Society of London, His Majesty's secretary of embassy to the Emperor of China, and minister plenipotentiary in the absence of the embassador. In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
Staunton, George, Sir, 1737-1801.Date: 1799- E-books
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A narrative of the extraordinary adventures , and sufferings by shipwreck & imprisonment, of Donald Campbell, Esq. of Barbreck: with the singular humours of his Tartar guide, Hassan Artaz: comprising The Occurrences of Four Years and Five Days, in an overland journey to India. Faithfully abstracted from Capt. Campbell's "letters to his son.".
Campbell, Donald, 1751-1804.Date: 1796- E-books
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A history of the voyages and travels of Capt. Nathaniel Uring . With new draughts of the Bay of Honduras and the Caribee Islands; and particularly of St. Lucia, and the Harbour of Petite Carenage; into which Ships may run in bad Weather, and be safe from all Winds and Storms. Very useful for Masters of Ships that use the Leeward Island Trade, or Jamaica.
Nathaniel UringDate: MDCCXXVII. [1727]