
Luke Batterham
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"Beechey's book is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands, the Mangareva (Gambier islands), and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California" (Hill). It provides important accounts of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest, the Eskimos of the north and Beechey's meeting with John Adams, the last survivor of the mutiny on the Bounty.