Journal of a Voyage of Discovery in the Pacific and Beering's Straits : on board H.M.S. Blossom / by James Wolfe, 1825-1828.

264 p. : plans, charts, illus., tables ; 28 cm.

English

Original binding.

Formerly the property of W. H. V. Bythway, the journal was sold at Sotheby's, London. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe.

James Wolfe (1807-1848), admiralty mate.

The journal describes the 1825-28 voyage of the ship Blossom from Spithead, Isle of Wright to Cape Horn, Chile, the Society and Hawaiian islands, then Kamchatka and the Bering Sea. The ship went back by way of California, Hawaii, the Philipines, and China. The ship continues through Awats Bay, Bering Strait, to San Francisco, Mexico, Chile, around Cape Horn to Brazil, the Azores,and Spithead. Appendices include notes of Blossom's other voyages, an Esquimaux vocabulary, and star and weather readings.

Available on microfilm.

June 01, 2002

James Wolfe, Journal of a Voyage on Discovery in the Pacific. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Diaries.

Seamen Great Britain.