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Rare and modern books

Kingston

PETER THE WHALER; His Early Life and Adventures in the Arctic Regions and Other Parts of the World

Crosby & Ainsworth, 1866

275.00 €

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(Newburyport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1866
Place of printing
Boston
Author
Kingston
Publishers
Crosby & Ainsworth

Description

An early reprint of the first Boston edition, essentially identical to the first issue. With an engraved frontispiece, pictorially decorated titlepage and three engraved plates, including one of a whaling scene and one of an Eskimo village. 8vo, publisher's original dark brown cloth, the covers decorated in blind with an ornate framework surrounding a sailing ship, the spine lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt. viii, 389pp. A bright copy, very skillfully rebacked preserving most of the original gilt-decorated cloth from the spine, flies renewed, inner hinges strengthened, the corners a bit worn, internally quite fresh, a few pages with minor foxing but they are by far the minority.

Edizione: a very nice copy of this fantastic work of nautical fiction. the book is especially noteworthy for its fine descriptions of arctic conditions, clearly based on contemporary explorers accounts.<br> in the 1830s peter lefroy, wild son of vicar in ireland, is sent off to sea in an emigrant ship bound for quebec. this is the start of a life of adventure which includes the fur trade, travels from canada to new orleans, being captured and escaping from pirates, joining a u. s. navy expedition to the arctic, hitting n iceberg, joining a whaling ship, another shipwreck, living with eskimos, being rescued again, and finally shipwrecked again on the coast of ireland within walking distance to where this entire journey began!