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Title: The life and adventures of Peter Willkins, a Cornish man: relating particularly, his shipwreck near the South Pole, his wonderful passage thro' a subterraneous cavern into a kind of new world, his there meeting with a gawry or flying woman, whose life he preserv'd, and afterwards married her, his extraordinary conveyance to the country of glums and gawrys, or men and women that fly: likewise a description of this strange country, with the laws, customs, and manners of its inhabitants, and the author's remarkable transactions among them: taken from his own mouth, in his passage to England, from off Cape Horn in America, in the ship Hector: with an introduction, giving an account of the surprizing manner of his coming on board that vessel, and his death on his landing at Plymouth in the year 1739: illustrated with several cuts, clearly and distinctly representing the structure and mechanism of the wings of the glums and gawrys, and the manner in which they use them either to swim or fly.Author: Robert PaltockPublisher: 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.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02512201CollectionID: CTRG98-B1375PublicationDate: 17510101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Dedication signed on p. [ii] and introduction signed on p. xiii: R.P. [i.e. Robert Paltock, the author]Collation: 2 v.: ill.; 27 cm
