A description of Patagonia and the adjoining parts of South America
Subtitle: containing an account of the soil, produce, animals, vales, mountains, rivers, lakes, &c. of those countries; the religion, government, policy, customs, dress, arms, and language of the Indian inhabitants; and some particulars relating to Falkland Islands.
By: By Thomas Falkner, who resided near forty years in those parts.  Illustrated with a new map of the southern parts of America, engraved by Mr. Kitchin ...
Contributors: Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by C. Pugh; T. Lewis
Published: 1774
Place of publication: Hereford; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Patagonia -- Early works to 1800; Moluche dialect; Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Falkland Islands
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Sabin 23734
Imperfect: map wanting.
Compiled from the author's papers, by William Combe.  cf. Dict. Nat. Biog.  Thomas Pennant published another account under the title "Of the Patagonians.  Formed from the relation of Father Falkener, a Jesuit ..." printed at the private press of George Allan of Darlington in 1788 (40 copies) and reprinted in the appendix to "The literary life of the late Thomas Pennant.  By himself," London, 1793.