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RARE WHALING PAMPHLET CLARKE, CYRENE M. Glances at Life upon the Sea; or, Journal of a Voyage to the Antarctic Ocean in the Brig Parana of Sag
RARE WHALING PAMPHLET CLARKE, CYRENE M. Glances at Life upon the Sea; or, Journal of a Voyage to the Antarctic Ocean in the Brig Parana of Sag Harbor, L.I. in the Years '53 '54. 84 pages. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers, bottom portion of backstrip missing, front cover detached, with corners chipped and institutional bookplate on verso. Middletown: Charles H. Pelton, 1854 [front wrapper dated 1855]
- Notes: rare first edition of pamphlet devoted largely to the author's experiences during a year-long voyage to the South Shetland Islands via the Azores, Cape Verde Islands, Patagonia, and the Falklands. Departing Sag Harbor in June 1853, the Parana reached the Shetlands by November and remained through early February to hunt sea elephants, returning to Long Island in June 1854. Also included are shorter narratives of earlier voyages by Clarke, the first in 1834 on the New-England out of Poughkeepsie, sailing around Cape Horn to the Galápagos Islands, and the second in 1850 on the Bengal bound for the Arctic, stopping in the Kingsmill (now Gilbert) Islands and Tasmania. Unable to go beyond Kamchatka because of ice, the ship proceeded to Hong Kong, where Clarke obtained a discharge and joined another whaler that successfully passed through the Bering Straits to a latitude of 72°. He returned to New Bedford in 1853 on another ship from Hawaii. Forster, The South Sea Whaler 23; not in Spence or OCLC; RLIN locates only the AAS copy; no copy has ever been listed in ABPC.
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