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Yankee surveyors in the Shogun's seas : records of the United States Surveying Expedition to the North Pacific Ocean, 1853-1856 / edited by Allan B. Cole.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Princeton legacy library.
- Princeton Legacy Library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pacific Ocean.
- Japan--Description and travel.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (170 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, [New Jersey] : Princeton University Press, 1947.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When Commodore Perry opened Japan to the West, the U.S. Navy sent a surveying expedition to the North Pacific. The officers of that expedition, 1853-1856, recounted their experiences, and especially their dealings with the Japanese, in vivid and outspoken letters which are here reproduced for the first time. Entertaining reading, as well as important naval and diplomatic history.Originally published in 1947.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Background of the Surveying Expedition
- Letters of the Surveying Expedition to Japan and the North Pacific Ocean 1853-1856
- Notes:
- "The principal reports which compose our story were written by the four commanders, John Rodgers, Henry Stevens, William Gibson, and John Brooke."
- Bibliographical footnotes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-65356-9
- 1-4008-7952-3
- OCLC:
- 966846003
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