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Giving a particular account of the climate, soil, minerals, animals, vegetables, manufactures, trade, commerce and languages, together with the religion, government, genius, character, manners and customs of the Indians and other inhabitants.…

As more people began settling in America and coming more in contact with Native Americans a new genre of fiction sprang up, the captivity narrative. These were accounts of people, often women and children, who were taken captive after violent…

Being the narrative of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Santa Maria de Belem do Grao Para in the Brazils, and thence 2,000 miles along the forests of the Amazon and Madeira rivers to the San Antonio falls …

This is a reprint of…

A particular account of his escape, accompanied by an Indian female; the extraordinary hardships they encountered in their flight; and their safe arrival in London, December the 6th, 1799. Written by himself.

This is a second edition of a…

Translated from the German, and Illustrated with Engravings.

During a four months' residence in a valley of the Marquesas.


This is the first American edition of Melville's novel set in the Marquesas Islands.

This is Hans Staden's account of his captivity among the Tupinamba from 1547 until 1555.