THREE YEARS WANDERINGS OF A CONNECTICUT YANKEE, C.M.WELLES, 1859, 1st

TITLE.................... ....: THREE YEARS WANDERINGS OF A CONNECTICUT YANKEE
SUBTITLE..................: IN SOUTH AMERICA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA & CALIFORNIA
AUTHOR................. ..: C.M.WELLES
PUBLISHER...............:AMERICAN SUBSCRIPTION PUBLISHING HOUSE
DATE & EDITION.......:1859, 1st
COVER SIZE (mm)....: 125 X 195
CONDITION...............: FAIR / GOOD
DUST JACKET...........: NO
COVERS.....................: decorative brown boards, age soiling with wear, corners are worn & bumped
SPINE.........................: with title, wear to extremities, sunned
END & FLY PAPERS.: front fly is absent
PAGES.......................:358 pp, generally clean., occasional rust / tone spot. Interleaves for illustrations absent.
BINDING....................: tight
PLATES & MAPS.......: steel engravings 10 plates
INSCRIPTIONS..........: no
SYNOPSIS, BLURB...:
with Descriptions of the several Countries, Manners, Customs and Conditions of the People, including Miners, Natives, etc. Also a detailed Account of a Voyage around the World, attended with unusual suffering, hardship, privation, disappointment, and dangers arising from fearful storms; threatened wrecks on rocky coasts, and amid reefs; by fire deception, mutiny, etc. Also, various incidents of Life on Shipboard. Welles set out to travel the world, but a lack of funds forced him to look for an alternative means of traveling. He managed to find six paying passengers for a yacht voyage to Australia and as a result was given free passage. He visited Australia and its gold diggings, as well as Peru, Panama and Northern California, where he visited San Francisco and the gold fields in 1855.

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