Mountains and molehills, or, Recollections of a burnt journal

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Label

Mountains and molehills, or, Recollections of a burnt journal

Statement of responsibility

by Frank Marryat ; with illustrations by the author

Title variation

• Mountains and molehills
• Recollections of a burnt journal

Creator

• Marryat, Frank, 1826-1855

Contributor

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

Author

• Marryat, Frank, 1826-1855

Subject

• Marryat, Frank, 1826-1855
• California -- Description and travel
• Mines and mineral resources
• Geology -- California
• Law -- Political aspects -- California
• California -- Gold discoveries
• 1800 - 1899
• California
• Wood engravings (prints) -- New York (State) | New York -- 19th century
• Law -- Political aspects
• Ethnic groups
• Geology
• Ethnic groups -- California
• Mines and mineral resources -- California
• Travel
• Gold mines and mining

Genre

• Wood engravings (prints)

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

979.4

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

no index present

LC call number

F865

LC item number

.M3

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries