![]() ![]() Well, that’s not quite true, as there is The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain… Fremont at his Las Mariposas ranch in California, making it the second – and quite likely the last – book in the Macy catalog to cover Gold Rush California in any detail (the first was Tales of the Gold Rush by Bret Harte). This book also mentions my hometown in the subsequent appendix, when he visits John C. wrote Two Years Before the Mast while sick with measles (as both Sandglasses point out), and subsequently eclipsed his poet father and many other travel writers of his time with this epic historical narrative of his time sailing near California. Honestly, this blog gets a hefty chunk of its information from this delightful sage of these tomes, and without his aid this post would be half as full as it is…since the first book was photographed by him! Much thanks for everything you’ve done for me, Robert. And I’ve got a pair of Two Years Before the Mast to kick things off this winter break! Before starting proper, I must thank Django6924 for once again aiding me in yet another post about the George Macy Company. 12 in 1947, of which the Heritage reprint is below!įront Binding and Spine – Ah, it’s nice to be back writing posts about these amazing books once again. ![]() Heritage Press Exclusive Edition the LEC would print their own edition with Hans Alexander Mueller’s engravings as LEC #185, 17th Series, V. ![]() Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. ![]()
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