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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 October 2014
    04 July 2013
    ISBN:
    9781139794930
    9781108060981
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139794930
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.42kg, 332 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, Latin American Studies, British History after 1450, Historical Geography, History, Global History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Latin American Studies, British History after 1450, Historical Geography, History, Global History
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration
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    On 22 May 1826, HMS Beagle left Plymouth Sound on her maiden voyage, accompanying HMS Adventure to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego to survey the Strait of Magellan. Years later, Royal Naval officer John Macdouall (fl.1820–30) proclaimed himself 'one whose visit to Port Famine, and sometime residence on that inhospitable coast, have left no wish of re-visiting it, really or metaphorically'. Nevertheless, his first-hand account of the first nineteen months of the Beagle's voyage, originally published in 1833, is a highly entertaining read. With an amusing combination of self-deprecation and caustic observation, and in preference to 'the trouble of detailing the monotonous course of a long sea voyage', Macdouall relates anecdotes about life aboard ship and the peoples and places encountered. While unforgiving of 'absurd' Spanish customs and 'national indolence', and Rio de Janeiro's 'bowing hypocritical Portuguese', he offers a generally kinder portrait of Fuegian and Patagonian 'savages'.

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