A Narrative Of The Wreck Of The Minerva Whaler Of Port Jackson On Nicholson S Shoal 24 S 179 W To Which

by Peter Bays

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First Edion. W/O FRONTIS. viii, 181, 1 pp. 12mo. Later boards and cloth spine. Very Good. Ferguson 1417; Hill 2004 84. Item #353269 The Minerva was on a voyage to Tonga and the Solomons and was lost on the Nicholson Shoal, now known as Minerva Reef, to the south of Tonga, on September 9, 1829, owing to the use of an out-of-date chart. The author gives many interesting particulars of his stay in the Tongan

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