Paperback. Condition: VG+. Paperback in Very Good+ condition. 7.5 X 1 X 10.25 inches. 238 pages. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.
Language: English
Published by Ye Galleon Press, U.S.A., 1996
ISBN 10: 0877705747 ISBN 13: 9780877705741
Seller: gigabooks, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hard Cover -- Very Good -- Ex-Library -- Showing only lightest wear -- 229 pages plus index.
Paperback. Condition: Fine. New copy (purchased from the publisher's warehouse when they closed down.) Original title: Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning amond the South Sea Islanders; Giving an Account of Their Feasts, Massacres, &c. &c., With the Certificates of Wesleyan Missionaries Who Lived in the Islands; Second Edition, Enlarged. New introduction by Keith Huntress, new & extensive index.
Language: English
Published by Ye Galleon Pr January 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0877705747 ISBN 13: 9780877705741
Seller: Inquiring Minds, Saugerties, NY, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good.
Paperback. Condition: As New. Binding firm, interior clean and unmarked. Illustration on end papers. 229 pages + index.
Published by YE GALLEON PRESS, 1996
Seller: Lexington Books Inc, Idaho Falls, ID, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: New. New with no dust jacket; BRAND NEW. Multiple copies available; Softcover; Ye Galleon Press; 1996; 0.
Published by Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, WA, 1996
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
Near Fine condition.
Language: English
Published by Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, WA, 1996
ISBN 10: 0877705747 ISBN 13: 9780877705741
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 238pp, index, footnotes, few bw ills. Or card covers. A couple of tiny spots on covers, rear cover creased at one corner. Two narratives of the wreck of the Australian brig Minerva on a sperm whaling voyage in 1829. Much detail on the customs and life in Fiji. The original editions are both extremely rare. Size: 8vo.
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Published by Ye Galleon Press. Fairfield, Wa., USA. ., 1996
ISBN 10: 0877705747 ISBN 13: 9780877705741
Seller: Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books, CYGNET, TAS, Australia
Facsimile reprints of two separate books: Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning among South Sea Islands, 2nd edition of the 1850 original, and Wreck of the Minerva, 1850. 108 PP, (4), 109-229, (8 Index), 1 colophon with 8 b/w illustrations. Fp: Facsimile of title-page Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on front cover and spine. Light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise a fine copy. 26 x 18.5. The wreck in September 1829 on Nicholson's Reef. Two narratives by one of the boatsteerers and the sailing master of the Australian brig Minerva on a sperm whaling voyage. Twyning lived for 20 years in the Islands and returned to England after the death of his wife from Horn Island (Futuna). Only two copies of the original are known to be held in Australia.