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Rare and modern books

Erskine, Charles

Twenty years before the mast : with the more thrilling scenes and incidents while circumnavigating the globe under the command of the late Admiral Charles Wilkes, 1838-1842

Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 2006

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Year of publication
2006
Place of printing
Chicago IL
Author
Erskine, Charles
Publishers
Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons
Edition
Reissue.
Keyword
UNIRED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION ADMIRAL CHARLES WILKES, VOYAGES
Cover description
No Jacket
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

Lakeside Classics Series # 104. This edition, edited by Thomas Philbrick, follows the text of the second edition published in Philadelphia by George W.Jacobs in1896. The present version corrects apparent typographical errors [and].small changes in punctuation etc. It describes an exciting and remarkable voyage taken in part to help the fast growing USA to understand better the seas that connected it to the rest of the world 390p. Illus. maps, index. The Lakeside Press Classics series was started in 1903 by Thomas E. Donnelley, [who] believed that a simple book, dignified and well designed, would be an appropriate holiday gift. Beautifully printed on fine paper in a handsome green cloth covered boards, with gilt title and decorations. Small format nice gift volume.