SEA ROUTES TO THE GOLD FIELDS : The Migration By Water to California in 1849 - 1852
de Lewis, Oscar
- Nuevo
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Nuevo/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Berkeley, California, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
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.
Reseñas
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- 100 POCKETS
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 012098
- Título
- SEA ROUTES TO THE GOLD FIELDS : The Migration By Water to California in 1849 - 1852
- Autor
- Lewis, Oscar
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition. First Thus
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1949
- Palabras clave
- History, American West, Seafarers/East Coast to California, Gold Rush Migration
Términos de venta
100 POCKETS
If a book is damaged or lost in shipment, refund of book cost and postage is guaranteed. If a book is physically not as described in our posting, book cost and round-trip postage are refunded on the book�s return.
Sobre el vendedor
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
