The voyage of the Racoon
Subtitle: a "secret" journal of a visit to Oregon, California, and Hawaii, 1813-1814.
By: Edited with and introd. and notes by John A. Hussey. Drawings by Henry Rusk.
Contributors: Hussey, John A., ed.; Racoon (Sloop of war)
Publisher: Book Club of California
Published: 1958
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Pacific Coast -- Description and travel; Hawaii -- Description and travel; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Naval operations
Description: During the War of 1812, Great Britain sent the warship Racoon to seize the fur trading post at Astoria but found that the Americans had already sold to the Canadians. Damaged trying to sail out the bar of the Columbia River, the Racoon went to San Francisco for repairs, to Monterey, and then to Hawaii before returning to England.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Edited from a manuscript in the Bancroft Library of the University of California.
Errata slip inserted.