Item #28082 Captain Gray in the Pacific Northwest: Captian Gray's Voyages of Discovery 1787-1793. Francis E. Cross, Charles M. Parkin Jr.

Captain Gray in the Pacific Northwest: Captian Gray's Voyages of Discovery 1787-1793.

Bend: Maverick Publications, 1987. Stated 2nd Edition. First Maverick Printing. A Near Fine copy with spots of foxing to the fore-edge in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight rubbing to the extremities. This copy is inscribed by co-author Charles Parkin. Gray was the first to name the Columbia River (after his own ship) and is the namesake for Gray's Harbor on the Washington Coast. Captain Gray was a merchant ship captain, who circumnavigated the globe between 1787 and 1790 on Columbia Rediviva, a trading voyage out of Boston, Massachusetts. He traveled first to the north Pacific coast of North America, to trade for furs, and then to China, to trade the pelts for tea and other Chinese goods.After his return from that expedition, Gray set sail for the northwest coast again on September 28, 1790, reaching his destination in 1792. In the evening of May 11, 1792, Gray's men found a safe channel, and so ship and crew sailed into the estuary of the Columbia River. Once there they sailed upriver and Gray named this large river Columbia after his ship. Item #28082
ISBN: 0892881534

Price: $95.00