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O'Connell, A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland,
O'Connell, A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland,
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Author: O'Connell, James F.
Title: A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands: Being the Adventures of James O'Connell. Edited from his Verbal Narration.
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:B.B. Mussey
Date Published: 1841
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265 pp. (16mo) 16x10 cm (6¼x4") period sheep. Second Edition.



As a youth O'Connell found his way to Australia where he had contacts with convicts and aborigines. He was later cast away on the north of the continent, and in a subsequent voyage he was shipwrecked in the Caroline Islands, where he lived for five years with the natives. . "O'Connell's description is the first extensive ethnographic account of the island of Ponape" - Day. HILL 1250

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Wear and soiling to binding, front board and first few leaves nearly detached, most of spine lacking, library bookplate on front pastedown; scattered foxing; good.
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