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A Voyage Round the World in 1740
Baron George Anson
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Our next employment was wooding and watering our squadron, caulking our ships' sides and decks, overhauling our rigging, and securing our masts against the tempestuous weather we were, in all probability, to meet with in our passage round Cape Horn in so advanced and inconvenient a season. But before I engage in the particulars of these transactions, it will not be improper to give some account of the present state of this island of St. Catherine's, and of the neighbouring country, both as the circumstances of this place are now greatly changed from what they were in the time of former writers, and as these changes laid us under many more difficulties and perplexities than we had reason to expect, or than other British ships, hereafter bound to the South Seas, may perhaps think it prudent to struggle with.
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Compared to other accounts of the expedition, this one is the driest yet.After reading Glyn Williams’s “Prize of All the Oceans” I really did not seem to discover anything new. However, my edition was amazing: great introduction, maps and pictures, which actually helped me a lot. Plus, it is still f
Anson's own POV on the circumnavigation thing. A dry read, but it filled a few gaps in my understanding of the affair. A very few, but still. I needed to read it and I'm glad I did.
A fantastic account of an incredible journey. This book is filled with detailed descriptions about sea travel in the 18th Century as well as an accurate accounts intended to inform future travellers to those parts.
Once I had got into the rhythm of the text and got my head around the olde language i