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A new voyage & description of the isthmus of America : surgeon on buccaneering expeditions in Darien, the West Indies, and the Pacific, from 1680 to 1688. With Wafer's secret report (1698) and Davis's expedition to the gold mines (1704) / by Lionel Wafer ;edited by L. E. Elliott Joyce.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wafer, Lionel, 1660?-1705?.
- Series:
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 73.
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 73
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of Central America--Panama.
- Indians of Central America.
- Natural history--Panama.
- Natural history.
- Panama--Description and travel.
- Panama.
- Physical Description:
- lxxi, 221, [1] p. : ill., maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Surrey : Ashgate, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The text of the 1699 edition, with slight changes, and additional material, edited with introduction, notes and appendices. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1934.
- Contents:
- chapter WAFER’S VOYAGES
- chapter I Wafer’s Secret Report (from Sloane MSS. 28,079)
- chapter II Expedition to the Gold Mines (from Wafer’s Second Edition, 1704)
- chapter III The Cuna Folk of Darien
- chapter IV Early Spanish Colonies in Darien.
- Notes:
- "[Lionel Wafer] Surgeon on Buccaneering expeditions in Darien, the West Indies, and the Pacific, from 1680 to 1688.
- First published by Ashgate Publishing.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-317-18720-2
- 1-317-18721-0
- 1-315-56504-8
- 1-283-08999-8
- 9786613089991
- 1-4094-1679-8
- 9781315565040
- OCLC:
- 824103246
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