Up and down California in 1860-1864
Subtitle: the journal of William H. Brewer
By: edited by Francis P. Farquhar ; with a new foreword by William Bright.
Contributors: Farquhar, Francis Peloubet, 1887-
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 583
Subjects: Brewer, William Henry, 1828-1910 -- Travel -- California.; Brewer, William Henry, 1828-1910 -- Diaries.; Brewer, William Henry, 1828-1910 -- Correspondence.; Geological surveys -- California.; Scientific expeditions -- California.; Natural history -- California.; California -- Description and travel.; California -- Surveys.; California -- History, Local.
Genres: Diaries.; Correspondence.; Surveys.
Description: "In 1860 William Brewer, a Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a young widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney to assist in the first geological survey of the state of California. Brewer was not a geologist, but his training in agriculture and botany made him an invaluable member of the team. He traveled more than fourteen thousand miles in the four years he spent in California and spent much of his leisure time writing lively, detailed letters to his brother back East.

These warmly affectionate letters, presented here in their entirety, paint a vivid picture of California in the mid-nineteenth century, describing the new state in all its spectacular beauty."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.