The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish man : relating particularly, his shipwreck near the South Pole, his wonderful passage thro' a subterraneous cavern into a kind of new world, his there meeting with a gawry or flying woman, whose life he preserv'd and afterwards married her, his extraordinary conveyance to the country of glums and gawrys, or men that fly : likewise a description of this strange country, with the laws, customs, and manners of its inhabitants, and the author's remarkable transactions among them : taken from his own mouth, in his passage to England, from off Cape Horn in America, in the ship Hector : with an introduction, giving an account of the surprizing manner of his coming on board that vessel, and his death on his landing at Plymouth in the year 1739 : illustrated with several cuts, clearly and distinctly representing the structure and mechanism of the wings of the glums and gawrys, and the manner in which they use th.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paltock, Robert, 1697-1767.

Contributor:

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages, Imaginary.

Genre:

Voyages, Imaginary.

Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- 18th century.

Imaginary voyages -- England -- 18th century.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

H. M.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Robinson ... and R. Dodsley ..., 1751.

Notes:

Novel.

Dedication signed: R.P. [i.e. Robert Paltock, the author]. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.)

Advertisements on last 5 pages of v. 2.

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN) T92780

OCLC:

249044271