Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of Samuel Patterson; Who Made Three Voyages to the North West Coast of America, and Who Sailed to the Sandwich Islands, and to Many Other Parts of this World before being Shipwrecked on the Feegee Islands
Fairfield [Washington]: Ye Galleon Press, 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. (6), 144. Introduction by Glen Adams, proprietor of Ye Galleon Press. Decorated endpapers. Bound in full gray cloth with gilt lettering on spine, and a gilt ship on front cover. Of an edition limited to 481 copies, this is copy number 112. Very Good+. Item #1717
Adams provides a fine introduction to the narrative, which was a mendicant designed to illustrate redemption of a sinner. Patterson sailed with Commander William Bainbridge on the first US ship into Constantinople. The Sultan was intrigued by news of a new country called the United States of America, and allowed him safe travel through Islamic waters. Patterson references a slave ship, John Jewitt and his ordeal at Nootka, and the customs of Fijians.
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