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Three years wanderings of a Connecticut yankee
Three years wanderings of a Connecticut yankee

Three years wanderings of a Connecticut yankee

Maker
Date1859
Object number00036897
NameBook
MediumInk, cloth, paper
DimensionsOverall: 197 x 133 x 36 mm, 0.54 kg
ClassificationsBooks and journals
Credit LineANMM Collection Purchased with USA Bicentennial Gift funds
DescriptionThree years' wanderings of a Connecticut yankee, in South America, Africa, Australia, and California, 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. By C.M. Welles. Illustrated with beautiful steel plate engravings. Sold by agents only. New York: American Subscription Publishing House. 1859.