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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…mehr

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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. ++++ 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 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