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The giants of Patagonia / Captain Bourne's account of his captivity amongst the extra-ordinary savages of Patagonia ; with six fine engravings ; to which is added, the painfully interesting narrative of the fate of the Patagonian Society's mission in Terra del Fuego.

Accession number
PML 142733
Creator
Bourne, Benjamin Franklin, 1816-1874.
Published
London : Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Contains the first nine chapters of the author's Captive in Patagonia, published the same year, together with an account of Capt. Francis Gardiner's mission to Patagonia in 1850-51.
Illustrated with 6 wood engravings after C. Keene, 3 engraved by Smyth, 3 unsigned.
"Savill & Edwards, printers, Chandos-street, Covent-garden."--Colophon.
Publisher's advertisements printed on endpapers.
Description
160 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 17 cm.
Provenance
Signature of Forrest Reid on front flyleaf; from the library of J.N. Hart and Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's yellow printed boards backed in green cloth.
Classification
Department