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History/ Voyages From Great Age/ Adventure & Discovery
Carleton Mitchell--"Beyond Horizons: Voyages Of Adventurer And Discovery." 1953 1st edition, Norton. Hardback with dust jacket, 312 pages. "True accounts from the great age of adventure: Rounding Cape Horn with Anson's squadron, beset by furious gales and the crew ravaged by scurvy; Discovering Tahiti from the deck of Wallis's ship that June morning in 1767; Pounding through ice and fog, snow, sleet, as Captain James searches for the Northwest Passage to Asia; The rescue of Alexander Selkirk (Robinso Crusoe) from Juan Fernandez; Shipwreck by a hurricane on the Devil's Isles, which turn out to be Bermuda 1609; Capture by pirates in the West Indies; Bligh's own story of the open-boat voyage after the mutiny." Dust jacket is poor; tears, pieces missing, clipped, has stains on both sides, etc. Book has heavy wear along cover edges, bumps at top & bottom of spine. Page edges are heavly toned. Defects do not affect text. Rest of book looks clean.
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