A Journal of the Shipwreck and Sufferings of Daniel Foss: A Native of Elkton, Maryland, Who Was the Only Person Saved from on Board the Brig ... on the 26th Nov. 1809, and Who Lived Five... - Softcover

Foss, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1275653154 ISBN 13: 9781275653153

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012

Synopsis

Title: A journal of the shipwreck and sufferings of Daniel Foss : a native of Elkton, Maryland, who was the only person saved from on board the brig Negociator, of Philadelphia, which foundered in the Pacific Ocean, on the 26th Nov. 1809, and who lived five years on a small barren island, during which time he subsisted on seals and never saw the face of any human creature.

Author: Daniel Foss

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.

Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.

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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP01197300

CollectionID: CTRG93-B4253

PublicationDate: 18160101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

Notes: "The public may rely on the truth of the proceeding narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of D. Foss, who is now living with his relatives in Elkton, Maryland, and has deposited in the Philadelphia Museum, the oar, which he so highly prized, and on which he kept a reckoning of the number of days he passed on the dreary island."

Collation: 24 p

About this edition

• Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1275653154
• ISBN 13: 9781275653153
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 26