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Boit, John

Log of the Union. John Boit's Remarkable Voyage to the Northwest Coast & Around the World 1794-1796.

(n.p.) Oregon Historical Society 1981, First edition. Oblong quarto. xxxvii, 136, [2]pp. Edited by Edmund Hayes. 49 maps, plans, drawings and watercolors (1 in color) by Hewitt R. Jackson as well as Boit's own drawings. Extensive notes. Printed in red and black. White cloth. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket slightly foxed). John Boit was the nineteen year old master of the sloop Union, whose circumnavigation of the globe was preparatory to a well-financed New England fur-trading expedition to the Pacific Northwest and China. His journal of that voyage forms the basis of this attractively printed and designed book.

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