South of Cape Horn : production material.

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South of Cape Horn : production material.

Typescript, front matter. "A fictionalized biography of the New England seaman, Nathaniel Brown Palmer, believed to be the first to discover the Antarctic continent."

4 folders.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7813443

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Palmer, Nathaniel Brown, 1799-1877

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Nathaniel Brown Palmer was born on 8 August 1799 in Stonington, Connecticut. He went to sea in 1813, and was first employed in the coasting trade from Maine to New York. At the age of eighteen, he was given his first command of the schooner Gleaner, and in the following year, sailed as second mate aboard the sealing brig Hersilia on the United States Sealing Voyage (from Stonington), 1819-1820 (leader James Sheffield), in a search for new sealing grounds. The expedition searched for...

Sperry, Armstrong, 1897-1976

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Armstrong Sperry was born in New Haven, Conn. in 1897. This Newbery Medal-winning author produced historical fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults. From the description of Armstrong Sperry papers, ca. 1955. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 48693548 American author and illustrator of children's and young adult fiction and non-fiction. From the description of Great river, wide land : production material. (Uni...