The north Pacific surveying and exploring expedition, or, My last cruise : where we went and what we saw, being an account of visits to the Malay and Loo-Choo Islands, the coasts of China, Formosa, Japan, Kamtschatka, Siberia, and the mouth of the Amoor River /
Year: 1858
Type: book
Abstract: States sent out the North Pacific Surveying andExploring Expedition; and the following pages are simply intended to show where it was that we went, and what it was that we saw, while engaged in the attainment of these objects.And now, in presenting them to the public, I ad- vance but one claim to its approbation : i.e. their contents, though limited, and confined mostly to personal observation while serving successively on board of several vessels of the squadron, are strictb/ matter-of-fact, and, though slightly coloured by the excitement of feeling consequent upon my having participated in most of the scenes of peril and ad- venture which they will be found to contain, yet is the colouring honest, and not at all calculated to impart incorrect impressions.
Source: J.B. Lippincott eBooks
Author: Alexander Wylly Habersham
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W575682796