Eldorado: Or, Adventures In The Path Of Empire A Voyage to California, Via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel

New York: G. P. Putnam. Very Good. 1861. 18th Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have bumping, rubbing and thin strips of cloth missing from both spine ends and corners. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there are a few spots of foxing throughout. There is a former owner's name and city inked on the first free page. Several sections have pulled and the string binding is a bit loose. "Taylor imitated and parodied the writings of various poets in Diversions of the Echo Club (London, 1873; Boston, 1876). In 1874 Taylor traveled to Iceland to report for the Tribune on the one thousandth anniversary of the first European settlement there. During March 1878, the U. S. Senate confirmed his appointment as United States Minister to Prussia. Mark Twain, who traveled to Europe on the same ship, was envious of Taylor's command of German. Taylor's travel writings were widely quoted by congressmen seeking to defend racial discrimination. Richard Townshend (D-IL) quoted passages from Taylor such as "the Chinese are morally, the most debased people on the face of the earth" and "A Chinese city is the greatest of all abominations." " (from Wikipedia) .