Mountains and molehills
Subtitle: or, Recollections of a burnt journal
By: by Frank Marryat ... With illustrations by the author.
Contributors: Trask, John B. 1824-1879.
Publisher: Harper & brothers
Published: 1855
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: Geology -- California; Ethnic groups -- California; Law and politics -- California; Mines and mineral resources -- California; California -- Description and travel; California -- Gold discoveries
Other titles: Recollections of a burnt journal
Description: Frank Marryat (1826-1855) left England for California via Panama with a manservant and three hunting dogs in 1850, hoping to find material for a book like his earlier Borneo. On his return to England in 1853, Marryat married and brought his bride back to California that same year. Yellow fever contracted on shipboard forced him to cut the trip short and return to England where he died two years later. Mountains and molehills (1855) is a sportsman-tourist's chronicle of California in the early 1850s: hunting, horse races, bear and bull fights. It also includes an Englishman's bemused comments on social life in San Francisco, Stockton, and the gold fields.
Notes: No known restrictions on publication.
"Extracts from a work by Dr. J.B. Trask ... on the geology of California": p. [383]-393.
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