Byron, John

The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, Commander in a Late Expedition Round the World. Containing an Account of the Great Distresses Suffered by Himself and His Companions on the Coast of Patagonia, from the Year 1740, Till Their Arrival in England, 1746, with a Description of St. Jago de Chili, and the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, Also a Relation of the Loss of the Wager Man of War, One of Admiral Anson's Squadron

London Printed for S. Baker and G. Leigh 1768, 1st edition. Hardcover Very good, no dust jacket.1768, 1st edition. (Hardcover) viii,257pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Octavo. Engraved frontipiece by Grignion from a painting by S. Wale. Bound in 1/2 calf and marbled boards with gilt ruled raised bands and gilt lettered red leather spine label. Hill p.41-2. Narrative of the shipwreck of the 'Wager,' part of Anson's sqaudron, on an island of the coast of Chile. Byron, a midshipman, describes the privations endured by the survivors who remained with Captain David Cheap, taken prisoners by the Indians and later turned over to the Spanish authorities. The work was used by his grandson Lord Byron, the poet, in Canto II of his work 'Don Juan'. Byron would later go on to become governor of Newfoundland and promoted to admiral in 1775.

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