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Sixty Miles from Contentment: Traveling the 19th Century American Interior Hardback - 1995

by M. H. Dunlop

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A witty and irreverent look at the wild Midwest in its heyday, as seen through the eyes of travelers to whom the American interior was the most interesting and exotic place on earth.

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  • Title Sixty Miles from Contentment: Traveling the 19th Century American Interior
  • Author M. H. Dunlop
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Publication date 1995
  • ISBN 9780465033652 / 0465033652
  • Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 5.85 x 1.1 in (24.08 x 14.86 x 2.79 cm)
  • Reading level 1550
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Description and travel, United States - Social life and customs -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94034240
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.3
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New York: BasicBooks, 1995. An irreverent look at the frontier Midwest, drawing on the work of more than 300 travel writers, native Westerners, Eastern dudes and foreign visitors, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Fuller, Anthony Trollope, and Mark Twain.. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/DJ Near Fine (price clipped). Narrow Large Octavo.
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New York: BasicBooks, 1995. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 277pp.,bibliography, Index. First edition, second printing. No previous ownership marks, no book-plate, no marking or remainder marks, etc. A square, bright, tightly bound copy. "Drawing on the work of more than three hundred travel writers--among them Charles Dickens, Margaret Fuller, Anthony Trollope, and Mark Twain--from America's own Est Coast and from fourteen other countries, this book offers a witty and irreverent look at the wild Midwest in its heyday." A fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket.. Second Printing. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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