Publisher:
Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books, 1985. First Edition.:
Octavo, orange cloth (hardcover), illus. endpapers, 160 pp. Fine, in a Very Good+, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: How much more can one say about a man who was an engineer, botanist, surveyor, seaman, explorer, linguist, cartographer, writer, poet, artist and engraver -- and a highly controversial military figure in the early days of the Revolution? Obviously, a lot. YUet, it may come as a surprise to learn that this is the first full-length biography of the life of Bernard Romans -- preeminent colonial explorer/cartographer, who sacrificed a Crown pension to throw in his ...
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