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Item Details
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GOLD SEEKER
ADVENTURES OF A BELGIAN ARGONAUT DURING THE GOLD RUSH YEARS |
| By: |
Jean-Nicolas Perlot, Howard R. Lamar (Editor), Helen Harding Bretnor (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£38.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300076452 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300076455 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 November, 1998 |
| Pages: |
484 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
The memoirs of a Belgian during the Gold Rush years in America. |
| Synopsis: |
"A splendid piece of Americana, for Perlot was a witty, gingery, intelligent man with a sharp eye for significant detail. . . . His book . . . has been translated and thoroughly annotated by the late Helen Harding Bretnor, who deserves the gratitude of all readers with a taste for the history of the Old West."-Atlantic Monthly"A lively memoir."-Evan S. Connell, New York Times Book Review"Provides a narrative as amusing as it is informative. Perlot is real gold, dug belatedly from the California mines."-Gerald Weales, Smithsonian"A marvelous book. . . . Perlot's observations, both as a foreign miner and a settler in the pioneer West, give new meaning to a familiar historical experience."-Mary McDougall Gordon, Pacific Historical ReviewIn 1850, Jean-Nicolas Perlot, a 26-year-old Belgian, joined a French mining company bound for the gold fields of California. This book is Perlot's witty and informative account of his life in California and his subsequent career in the newly rich town of Portland, Oregon. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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