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Author Murphy, Dallas.

Title Rounding the Horn : being the story of williwaws and windjammers, Drake, Darwin, murdered missionaries and naked natives--a deck's-eye view of Cape Horn / Dallas Murphy.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  918.3 MUR    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  918.36 MUR    Check Shelf
Description xv, 358 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-339) and index.
Contents From Ushuaia to Puerto Williams -- Sea-struck -- Wind -- Discovering seas -- Drake -- From Puerto Williams to Caleta Martial -- A glorious failure -- Discovering people -- FitzRoy's fuegians -- "Too much Skylark!" -- Back home again -- To Cape Horn -- From Hermite to Duck -- The death and life of the British Isles -- How to round Cape Horn -- The undiscovered land -- A fjord for the naming -- The martyrs insisted -- At Wulaia -- "The wet and cold life".
Subject Horn, Cape (Chile) -- Description and travel.
Murphy, Dallas.
ISBN 0465047599
9780465047598
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