A journal of Captain Cook's last voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in quest of a North-West passage, between Asia and America; performed in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779 / by John Ledyard
- Bib ID:
- 873596
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ledyard, John, 1751-1789
- Edition:
- [Facsimile ed.]
- Description:
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- Chicago : Quadrangle Books, 1963
- 208 p. ; 21 cm.
- Series:
- Americana classics ; no.10.
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- 1963
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