| Wanderings in Patagonia Contributor(s): Beerbohm, Julius (Author) |
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ISBN: 1544735723 ISBN-13: 9781544735726 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | South America - General - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) - History | Latin America - South America |
| Dewey: 918.270 |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.50 lbs) 164 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: And not out of harmony with the gloomy spirit of solitude which broods over St. Julian, are the tragic memories connected with the three famous nautical expeditions which have visited its inhospitable shores. We were anchored between two islands-Justice and Execution Islands. These names were given to them by Sir Francis Drake, who visited St. Julian in 1578. On the former he caused one of his party, a Master Doughty, to be put to death for alleged insubordination. Sir Francis found a gibbet already erected on one of these islands, which had been left there by Magellan, who passed the winter of 1520 at St. |