A Journey Over Land to India, Partly by a Route Never Gone Before by Any European: In a Series of Letters to His Son. Comprehending His Shipwreck and Imprisonment with Hyder Alli, and His Subsequent Negociations and Transactions in the East |
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| Title | A Journey Over Land to India, Partly by a Route Never Gone Before by Any European: In a Series of Letters to His Son. Comprehending His Shipwreck and Imprisonment with Hyder Alli, and His Subsequent Negociations and Transactions in the East |
| Author | Donald Campbell |
| Publisher | Bartram and Reynolds, 1807 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Dec 16, 2005 |
| Length | 438 pages |
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