
Language
en
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, Paul Fernandez and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2011-12-25
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1816–1874
A 19th-century sailor turned memoirist, he is best remembered for a dramatic captivity narrative set in Patagonia. His surviving work offers a vivid glimpse of seafaring life, frontier danger, and the style of adventure writing that fascinated American readers of the time.
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