The Captive in Patagonia or, Life Among the Giants.

Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1853.. Bourne was captured enroute to the California gold fields. His sprightly narrative deals mostly with South America and its natives, but he did ship out on various craft, one of which was a whaler, "the ship Hudson, Captain Clift, of Mystic, Connecticut - a whaling vessel, just from the Falkland Islands."Imagine my surprise at discovering there actually was a whaler of this name with Clift as captain, homeported in Mystic and bound for the Falkland Islands, 1848-1852! See Lund, 6828. I've had copies of this book before, but I think this is an unusual configuration, in that it contains 28 pages of product advertisements by publisher Gould and Lincoln. Bound as issued in blindstamped brown cloth with gold spine lettering. Top of backstrip repaired, else a very good copy.. 11.5 x 19 cm. (16 publisher's ads), xxiv-233, (12 publisher's ads) pp. b/w frontispiece and plates