SEA ROUTES TO THE GOLD FIELDS : The Migration By Water to California in 1849 - 1852
by Lewis, Oscar
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- Hardcover
- first
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- New/No Jacket
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First Edition. First Thus . Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW. Vintage 1949 Alfred A. Knopf First Edition, First Thus. Blue linen boards w/gilt embossed spine/NF w/trace corner tip wear. DJ/None. Fold-out map (also BRAND NEW) to rear. Maritime history of California gold rush migration from the East Coast west by sea. Early historian of America West, Oscar Lewis (- 1992), examines hundreds (far richer repository than overland travel logs) of journals, diaries & letters of seafarers from ports of embarkation to San Francisco ... a Maine farmer who found himself on an island off Brazil in 1849, for instance, writes of exotic tropical fruits. Vivid portraits of life aboard ships, crowded quarters, tedium & weeks-long rounding Cape Horn a century and a half ago. 6 chapters: 1, The Departure; 2, The Voyage; 3, Stops Ashore; 4, Panama & Nicaragua; 5, Steamships; and, 6, The Arrival. Fine copy less dustjacket.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012098
- Title
- SEA ROUTES TO THE GOLD FIELDS : The Migration By Water to California in 1849 - 1852
- Author
- Lewis, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. First Thus
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- History, American West, Seafarers/East Coast to California, Gold Rush Migration
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