Book - Treasury Of Discovery Enterprise And Adventure

Maker
1. Paton & Ritchie
2. William Anderson
Production date
1857
 Description
Small sized book containing 250 pages Titled: "TREASURY OF DISCOVERY" ENTERPRISE AND ADVERTURE" by William Anderson 1857. Some of the Contents list as follows - Discoveries of Christopher Columbus, the scorpion eaters, Ferdinand De Soto, the discoverer of the Mississippi, incidents of travel in Egypt, a bathe in the dead sea, a night among the loins, Chinese jugglers, Adventures in southern Africa, Adventure in Turkey, description of a bull fight in Spain, adventure among the apache Indians, Mont Blanc at sunset, catching an alligator with bait, pearl fishing, wild bull hunting, suffering of a boat's crew, ascent of a Creek mountain, Brady the American borderer, incidents in the alps, an east Indian narrative and adventures on the Amazon.

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Production date
1857
Media/Materials
Paper and Cloth
Measurements
167 x 110 x 23 mm
Production place
Edinburgh, Scotland
Collection
Social History
Department collection type
Social History
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1983/134/17

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