A Voyage to the North Pacific (Classic Reprint): And a Journey Through Siberia More Than Half a Century Ago: And a Journey Through Siberia More Than Half a Century Ago (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from A Voyage to the North Pacific: And a Journey Through Siberia More Than Half a Century Ago

Gone over the same route before any of these claimantswere born. I have often regretted that I did not make any note of what I saw, and that I had not the requisite qualifications to write an extended account of it; but business called my thoughts in other directions. I must now be content to give this imperfect sketch, the materials of which are drawn principally from.

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Excerpt from A Voyage to the North Pacific: And a Journey Through Siberia More Than Half a Century Ago

My only object in combining the reminiscences and memorandum of my first voyage as shipmaster into a connected narrative, is to leave some slight record of that voyage in my family. Although I am not one of those who regard everything beyond the smoke of their own chimneys as marvellous, I think my expedition to the Northwest Coast was made a little remarkable from the circumstance that I met at Norfolk Sound his Excellency Baron von Resanoff, to Whom I sold my vessel, and then crossed the North Pacific in a little craft of twenty-five tons burden, and after an overland journey of fifty-five hundred miles returned home by the Way of St Petersburg. This was a voyage and travels more than half a century ago, and I was probably the first American who passed through Siberia.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.