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The Voyage of Captain John Narbrough to the Strait of Magellan and the South Sea in His Majesty's Ship Sweepstakes, 1699-1671. (Hakluyt Society, Third Series, volume 33).
Campbell, Richard J. (EDT); Bradley, Peter T. (EDT); Lorimer, Joyce (EDT)
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2018
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. first edition 2018 hardcover with dust jacket in near fine condition. Dust jacket has some slight shelf wear, book is in near fine condition. xx, 723 pp., frontispiece color plate, large folding color map of Patagonia, 8 additional leaves of color pl…ates, printed on both sides: 6 with maps, 1 with title pages, and 1 with other illustrations; maps tables, and illustrations in text. Extensive footnotes, bibliography, and analytical index. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. In 2009, after a public appeal, the British Library purchased a manuscript, which Captain Narbrough bought in 1666 and into which he subsequently entered his journals of his voyages and correspondence relating to them. The Book contains his own fair copy of the journal of his voyage through the Strait of Magellan and north to Valdivia in the Sweepstakes, 1669-1671. This is published here for the first time, together with an incomplete and somewhat different copy of the journal, held in the Bodleian Library, which was made for him by a clerk after he returned to England, and which was partially published in 1694. Both versions of the journal together with previously unpublished records made by members of his company, as well as reproductions of the charts which Narbrough relied on and those he produced, are printed here. Narbrough's mission was to carry out a passenger who referred to himself as Don Carlos Enriques and who claimed to have expert knowledge of Peru and Chile, and contacts with disaffected colonists and indigenous peoples. Don Carlos's written proposals to King Charles II and his ministers, only recently discovered, are here translated from Spanish, and give a clear sense of the character, if not the real identity, of an adventurer, who gave the authorities in England, Chile and Peru totally different and changing stories about his status and the purpose of the voyage.
