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Narrative of a Voyage to Patagonia and Terra del Fuego - John MacDouall

Narrative of a Voyage to Patagonia and Terra del Fuego

Through the Straits of Magellan, in HMS Adventure and Beagle, in 1826 and 1827

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Buch | Softcover
332 Seiten
2013
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-06098-1 (ISBN)
CHF 54,10 inkl. MwSt
Originally published in 1833, this is a first-hand account of nineteen months aboard HMS Beagle on her maiden voyage. The author writes amusingly, if at times caustically, preferring anecdotes and observations about the peoples encountered en route to 'the trouble of detailing the monotonous course of a long sea voyage'.
On 22 May 1826, HMS Beagle left Plymouth Sound on her maiden voyage, accompanying HMS Adventure to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego to survey the Strait of Magellan. Years later, Royal Naval officer John Macdouall (fl.1820–30) proclaimed himself 'one whose visit to Port Famine, and sometime residence on that inhospitable coast, have left no wish of re-visiting it, really or metaphorically'. Nevertheless, his first-hand account of the first nineteen months of the Beagle's voyage, originally published in 1833, is a highly entertaining read. With an amusing combination of self-deprecation and caustic observation, and in preference to 'the trouble of detailing the monotonous course of a long sea voyage', Macdouall relates anecdotes about life aboard ship and the peoples and places encountered. While unforgiving of 'absurd' Spanish customs and 'national indolence', and Rio de Janeiro's 'bowing hypocritical Portuguese', he offers a generally kinder portrait of Fuegian and Patagonian 'savages'.

Preface; Narrative of a voyage.

Reihe/Serie Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration
Zusatzinfo 1 Plates, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 420 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Südamerika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte
ISBN-10 1-108-06098-6 / 1108060986
ISBN-13 978-1-108-06098-1 / 9781108060981
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