Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound

Includes: A New Vancouver's Journal on the Discovery of Puget Sound, by a member of the Chatham's crew.

All the fascinating details of the discovery and exploration of Puget Sound are told by a master historian, whose source material was drawn from old and rare journals located in public libraries of England and Spain.

A section of Vancouver's journals is reproduced verbatim. This covers the period in 1792 from the time he strikes the shores of the present State of Washington, below Point Grenville, on into Puget Sound, around Vancover Island, and finally though the Nootka negotiations.

Professor Meany has inserted valuable portraits and biographies of the men honored in many regional place names of the Pacific Northwest.

Full biographies of Captain George Vancouver and Bodega y Quadra are given, and summarizing of events revolving around historic Nootka Sound.

Included in this 1957 edition is the manuscript journal kept by a member of the crew on the Chatham—the armed tender, which, with the sloop Discovery, comprised the squadron under Vancouver's command. This journal was edited by Professor Meany in 1915.

Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound is an invaluable book, not only for historians, but for all those interested in the beginnings of our country, more particularly, the Pacific Northwest.