| Title: | Wilkins, Peter. |
| Alternate title: | The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish man : relating particularly his shipwreck near the South Pole; his wonderful passage through a subterraneous cavern into a kind of new world; his there meeting with a gawrey or flying woman, whose life he preserved, and afterwards married her; his extraordinary conveyance to the country of glumms and gawreys, or men and women that fly. Likewise, a description of this strange country, with the laws, customs, and manners of its inhabitants, and the author's remarkable transactions among them. Taken from his own mouth, in his passage to England, from off Cape Horn in America, in the ship Hector. With an introduction, giving an account of the surprising manner of his coming on board that vessel, and his death on his landing at Plymouth in the year 1739 |
| Author: | Paltock, Robert, 1697-1767 |
| Note: | s.n., 1800 |
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| Subject: | Voyages, Imaginary |
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