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Título: An affecting narrative of the unfortunate voyage and catastrophe of his majesty's ship Wager, One of Commodore Anson’s Squadron in the South Sea Expedition

Subtítulo: Containing a full account of its being cast away on a desolate island, and of the strange proceedings of the officers and private men, after that unhappy event: more especially, of those important incidents, the shooting of Mr. Henry Cosins, and the imprisoning of Capt. C—p for that action. The whole compiled from authentic journals, and transmitted, by letter, to a merchant in London, from a person who was an eye witness of all the affair

Escritor(a): John Young

Dados sobre a obra

  • Tipo: Obra Literária
  • Título alternativo: exhibiting a complete view of the perils and terrible disasters which the crew underwent; the wonderful adventure of near a hundred of them, in their boat, along the vast southern coast of Patagonia, and through the Straits of Magellan, for above a thousand leagues, during which the greatest part of them perished by cold and famine; the arrival of those few that survived in the miserablest condition at Rio Grand; their hospitable reception and entertainment at that place; their passage from thence to Rio Ja
  • Classificação: Literatura informativa e de viagens
  • Ano de publicação: 1751
  • Editora: John Norwood, Londres, Inglaterra
  • Idiomas: Inglês
  • Meio: Impresso

Fonte(s)

  • MORAES, Rubens Borba de. Bibliographia Brasiliana. Los Angeles: UCLA; Rio de Janeiro: Kosmos, 1983. 2 v.
  • INTERNET ARCHIVE. Biblioteca Digital, sem fins lucrativos, de livros, filmes, música, softwares etc.

Descrição

Continuação do subtítulo: exhibiting a complete view of the perils and terrible disasters which the crew underwent; the wonderful adventure of near a hundred of them, in their boat, along the vast southern coast of Patagonia, and through the Straits of Magellan, for above a thousand leagues, during which the greatest part of them perished by cold and famine; the arrival of those few that survived in the miserablest condition at Rio Grand; their hospitable reception and entertainment at that place; their passage from thence to Rio Janeiro, next to Lisbon, and finally to England, intermixed with several entertaining passages and remarks.

Referência

YOUNG, John. An affecting narrative of the unfortunate voyage and catastrophe of his majesty's ship Wager, One of Commodore Anson’s Squadron in the South Sea Expedition: Containing a full account of its being cast away on a desolate island, and of the strange proceedings of the officers and private men, after that unhappy event: more especially, of those important incidents, the shooting of Mr. Henry Cosins, and the imprisoning of Capt. C—p for that action. The whole compiled from authentic journals, and transmitted, by letter, to a merchant in London, from a person who was an eye witness of all the affair. Londres, Inglaterra: John Norwood, 1751.

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