Kratkoe geografichesko-statisticheskoe opisanīe Kalifornīi
Publisher: V Morskoĭ Tip.
Published: 1850
Place of publication: S.-Peterburg
Language: rus
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Description and travel
Description: This description of California was published to meet Russian curiosity about the gold fields and the region at the height of the gold rush. It draws heavily from Carl Hartmann's Geographisch-statistische Beschreibung von Californien, as well as newspaper accounts and German brochures about the gold fields. It describes the land and natural resources, political administration and social customs of both upper and lower California, with a special chapter on the gold rush.
Notes: Romanized.

LC copy bound with: Potekhin, V. Selenie Ross. Sanktpeterburg, 1859.

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