(TRAVEL) Smith Thomas W A Narrative of the Life Travels and

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(TRAVEL.) Smith, Thomas W. A Narrative of the Life, Travels and Sufferings. 240 pages. 8vo, publisher's calf, needs binding; dampstaining, musty odor, edge wear to a few leaves; 1847 library inscription from Prairie Ronde, MI on front free endpaper. Boston, 1844

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The author was an English sailor who relocated to New Bedford as a whaler, with a few adventures in between. The subtitle explains better than we could: "Comprising an account of his early life, adoption by the Gipsys; his travels during eighteen voyages to various parts of the world, during which he was five times shipwrecked; thrice on a desolate island near the South Pole, once on the coast of England, and once on the coast of Africa. He took part in several battles on the coast of Spain and Peru and witnessed several others; was once taken by pirates, from whom he was providentially delivered, placed in a small boat and set adrift at a great distance from land, without the means for conducting her to the shore. He afterwards took part in four minor engagements with savages near New Guinea." Borba de Moraes, page II:817; Forster, South Sea Whaler 86; Howes S679 ("aa"); Sabin 84420.