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Cruise of the 'Alert'

Name: Cruise of the 'Alert'
Author: R. W. (Richard William) Coppinger

by R. W. (Richard William) Coppinger

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Cruise of the 'Alert' Four Years in Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene Waters (1878-82)

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Greg Bergquist, Stephen Blundell 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

2013-08-16

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- Description and travel Polynesia -- Description and travel Natural history -- Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)Alert (Sloop : 1856-1895)Natural history -- Polynesia Natural history -- Mascarene Islands Mascarene Islands -- Description and travel

About the author

R. W. (Richard William) Coppinger

Best known for his voyage on HMS Alert, this British naval surgeon and naturalist turned years of travel into vivid writing about wildlife, landscapes, and life at sea. His work blends careful observation with the curiosity of a field scientist.

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