SHATTUCK, George Burbank.
The Bahama Islands.
New York: The Macmillan Company , 1905.
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First Edition of George Burbank Shattuck's The Bahama Islands
First edition. Thick quarto, original dark blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Includes 93 plates, many of which are in color.
The Bahamas extends 760 miles from the coast of Florida on the north-west almost to Haiti on the south-east. The group consists of 700 islands, of which 30 are inhabited, and about 2,400 cays (coral reefs). When Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492 on San Salvador, The Islands Of The Bahamas were inhabited by Lucayans, a subgroup of Arawak indians. Slavery, disease and other hardships wiped out the entire tribe within 25 years of Columbus' arrival. British settlement in The Bahamas was established in 1647 by a group of English settlers in search for religious freedom, the Company of Eleutheran Adventurers, who organized a community on what is now the island of Eleuthera; in 1783 the Islands Of The Bahamas became a British colony. During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, piracy flourished in the islands because of their proximity to important shipping lanes.
The Bahama Islands.
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