Mountains and molehills, or, Recollections of a burnt journal /
by Frank Marryat ; with illustrations by the author.

Description

Main Author

Marryat, Frank, 1826-1855

Related Names

Trask, John B. (John Boardman), 1824-1879.

Language(s)

English

Published

New York : Harper & Brothers, 1855.

Subjects

Marryat, Frank, > Marryat, Frank, / 1826-1855.
Travel.
Mines and mineral resources.
Law > Law / Political aspects.
Gold mines and mining.
Geology.
Ethnic groups.
Mines and mineral resources > Mines and mineral resources / California.
Law > Law / Political aspects > Law / Political aspects / California.
Ethnic groups > Ethnic groups / California.
Geology > Geology / California.
California.
California > California / Gold discoveries.
California > California / Description and travel.
Wood engravings (prints) > Wood engravings (prints) / New York (State) > Wood engravings (prints) / New York (State) / New York > Wood engravings (prints) / New York (State) / New York / 19th century.

Summary

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.

Note

Issued in blind stamped cloth with gilt spine.
The plates are included in the pagination.
"Extracts from a work by Dr. J.B. Trask ... on the geology of California": pages 383-393.

Physical Description

393 page : illustrations ; 20 cm

Locate a Print Version

Find in a library

Viewability