NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD Naval Operations in China 1843 in Two Vol.

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NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD Naval Operations in China 1843 in Two Vol.:
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Narrative of a Voyage Around the World, Performed in Her Majesty\'s Ship Sulphur, during the years 1836-1842, including details of the Naval Operations in China, from Dec 1840, to Nov 1841. Published under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. by Captain Sir Edward Belcher Commander of the Expedition in Two Volumes. Published by Henry Colburn, London 1843 1st Edition, Two Volumes 1/4 Leather and Marbled paper hard cover bindings are in very good condition. Volume I with 387 pages, 3 maps, 8 Engravings and 11 Vignettes. Volume II with 474 pages, 11 Engravings, 9 Vignettes. Some of the plates in in Volume I are water stained. Plates in Volume II are foxed.Texts in both Volumes are clean and tight. The purpose of this expedition was to explore and survey the Pacific Coast of North and South America, from Valapraiso, Chile to Alaska. Among the harbors and ports visited and surveyed were Port Etches, in King William\'s Sound, Point Riou and Port Mulgrave, Kodiak Island, Sitka, San Francisco, Monterey, the Columbia River, Bodega (the Russian possession near San Francisco), Santa Barbara, San Pedro, San Juan and San Diego. At Sitka , the officers were greeted by the Russian governor, Captain Koupreanoff. At San Francisco, they took a month long journey in open boats up the Sacramento River. Their ship, the Sulphur, also stopped at the Hawaiian Islands, the Marquessas, Society and Tonga Islands, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Sumatra and Malacca. When they reached Singapore in 1840, Belcher was sent to China, where war had broken out, and was there actively involved in military campaigns on the Canton River.

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