Threescore years
Subtitle: an autobiography, containing incidents of voyages and travels, including six years in a man-of-war. Details of the war between the United States and the Algerine government, bombardment of Algiers by Lord Exmouth, and its subjugation by the French. Also, two years in California, a visit to the Crimea during the bombardment and captive of Sebastopol, journey through Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine and Egypt ...
By: By Samuel F. Holbrook.
Series: Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 265, no. 2617.
Publisher: J. French
Published: 1857
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 504
Subjects: Essex (Frigate); Algiers, Battle of, 1816.; Voyages and travels.; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Naval operations.; United States -- History -- War with Algeria, 1815.; Chile -- History -- War of Independence, 1810-1824.; New England -- Social life and customs.; Southern States -- Social life and customs.; Great Britain -- Social life and customs.; California -- Social life and customs.
Notes: "I shall resume the narrative ... with my journey through Europe to Sebastopol, Asia Minor [etc.]"--p. 504.

Capture of the Essex: p. 316-340.

Chaps. XXV-XXVII describe the author's experiences in California, 1849-1850.

Master microform held by: ResP.

Howes, U.S.IANA, no. H.576.

Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn., Research Publications, 1975. 1 reel. 35 mm. (Western Americana, reel 265, no. 2617)