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- Published / Created:
- [1801]
- Call Number:
- 763 801 L722
- Image Count:
- 46
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Voyages and adventures of Henry Lanson
- Description:
- "London published July 4th 1801 by S. Fisher."--Frontispiece.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold by S. Fisher, no. 10, St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell and Also sold by T. Hurst, no. 32, Paternoster-row
- Subject (Topic):
- Adventure stories, Indians of the West Indies, and Chapbooks, English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The life and adventures of Henry Lanson, the only son of a wealthy planter in the West Indies : who, when on his voyage to England, was put on shore at an uninhabited island, where, on his perambulation up the country, he discovers the ruins of an ancient temple; and near it, the oracle of the sun, a large rude carved idol made of pure brilliant gold of a wonderful construction; which contained an immense and inestimable collection of preciouse Indian curiosoities. The manner of his converting the natives of a neighbouring island, with whom he lived several years before his departure; when he took with him an incredible quantity of riches, from the idol; and at length arrived safe in England
