LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF SAILOR LIFE,; as exemplified in fiteen years experience, including the more thrilling events of the U. S. Exploring Expedition and Reminiscences of an eventful life in the "Mountain Wave.
1848 · Boston
by CLARK, Joseph G.
Boston: Mussey, 1848. Second edn. 8vo, pp. 324. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates (not found in the first edition)Bound in brown cloth stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. Some wear at the extremities of the spine and front corner bent, a very good copy. Howes C442. Haskell 113. Soliday 1: 604. Rosove ANTARCTICA 72:. [H]is Antarctic account is found in chapters VII-VIII (pp. 99-119)." Forbes HAWAII 1631: "The Hawaii portion of the text is on pages 178-209. Clark gives an interesting description of Hilo and the preparations made for the expedition to Mauna Loa via Kilauea... He continues with a description of the trip and some of the scientific experiments attempted. He writes of a visit by the king to the ship at Lahaina... A transcription of the death sentence of Kamanawa and Lonopuakau is on pages 179-180... [The presence of plates] may indicate a later issue." HILL COLLECTION OF PACIFIC VOYAGES p. 53: "Clark was a seaman on the United States Exploring Expedition, commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes. During a stop in the Fiji Islands, Clark was nearly murdered by the islanders; two men of the expedition lost their lives in the attack. Clark gives descriptions of the Columbia River valley and of San Francisco and the surrounding areas; he praises the abundance and fertility of California's natural resources. Hawaii was visited twice. A report on the wreck of the Peacock is given. (Inventory #: 56140)