Voyages Round the World

Title: Voyages round the world: from the death of Captain Cook to the present time, including remarks on the social condition of the inhabitants in the recently-discovered countries, their progress in the arts, and more especially their advancement in religious knowledge.Author: Andrew KippisPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01828700CollectionID: CTRG96-B34PublicationDate: 18440101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: "This volume may in some respects be considered a continuation of No. XXI of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library, in which is given a history of the various voyages round the world prior to the death of the celebrated Captain Cook."--Pref. Dated: November, 1843. Erroneously attributed to Andrew Kippis in NUC pre-1956. Added illustrated title page. Based on the latest date of the individual volumes, this edition of the School district library was probably issued in 1852. Includes index.Collation: 401 p.; 16 cm