Author: Brassey, Mrs.
Title: A VOYAGE IN THE ‘SUNBEAM’ Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months.
Description: Longmans, Green and Co., 1878. 1st Ed. xv + 504pp. 6 maps including 2 folding maps, 9 plates, 109 ills. engraved on wood by G. Pearson chiefly after drawings by the Hon. A.Y. Bingham. Light age toning, joints glued, original gilt and black blue cloth, dampstaining? to lower board, spine chipped and faded. ¶ Toy 400. ‘... They visited Cowes, Torbay, Maceira, Teneriffe, the Cape Verde Islands, Rio de Janeiro, the River Plate, and passed through the Straits of Magellan ... they sailed north along the Chilean coast, calling at valparaiso and visiting Santiago. They then sailed westward to Tahiti and north to the Hawaiian Islands ... next they visited Yokohama and the other Japanese ports, Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, and Singapore. They returned home via Ceylon, Aden, Suez, and various Mediterranean ports. Each day Lady Brassey wrote a narrative of the events of the preceeding day for her father. This book and later ones grew out from these daily narratives. The account is fresh, readable, and interesting, with excellent descriptions of exotic peoples and places from the Victorian English viewpoint ...’

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