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A voyage round the world; but more particularly to the north-west coast of America; performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon. By Captain George Dixon.
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Title:A voyage round the world; but more particularly to the north-west coast of America; performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon. By Captain George Dixon.
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Author/Creator:Beresford, William, active 1788.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Dixon, George, -1800?
Helen and Philip Akrigg Collection.
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Published/Created:London : G.Goulding, 1789.
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Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
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Call Number: FC3821.1.P6 B4 1789
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Number of Items:3
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Status:Available
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Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Portlock, Nathaniel, 1748?-1817.
Voyages around the world.
Zoology.
Fur trade--Northwest, Pacific.
Northwest Coast of North America.
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Description:xxix, [2], 360 p. incl. tables. 13 pl., 5 fold. maps (incl. front.), music ; 30 x 23 cm.
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Additional formats:Available also online.
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Local note:UBC Library has a copy in the Helen and Philip Akrigg Collection.
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Notes:With music.
A series of 49 letters signed "W.B." i.e. William Beresford, supercargo on board the Queen Charlotte; edited, with introduction and two appendices, by George Dixon. cf. Introd., p.xxii-xxiii;p. 3; Portlock, Voyage round the world, 1789; Dict. nat. biog., v.15, p. 124, note.
"Appendix no. I. Natural history": p.353-360.
"Appendix no. II. Tables of the route of the King George and Queen Charlotte": 47 p. at end.