THREE 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 the Unusual Suffering, Hardship, Privation, Disappointment, and Dangers Arising from Fearful Storms; Threatened Wrecks on Rocky Coasts, and Amid Reefs; by Fire. . .

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358 pp. First edition; original, brown cloth; decorative blind stamped covers; decorative gilt spine; red headbands; fp.; illustrated with f.p. and 9 plates. Binding tight; spine faded; boards with light wear, internally light to moderate oxidation; see additional images provided. Quoting the text, p. 204: "At 3, P.M., we doubled the cape, and glided into full view of the old Brazilian city of San Salvador, now called Bahia, which lay before us, a 'thing of beauty', to our longing eyes. It is built on rising ground, commencing with the business streets near the shore, and extending in rows of dwellings, gardens, groves, and shrubbery, to the bold brows of the bluffs above, upon whose summits we could see convents and cathedrals, hotels and large mansions of more modern style. We dropped anchor at 4 o'clock, at a point in front of the city, commanding a full view of it, also of the bay, but were not permitted to land, by the custom house officer who came on board, until morning. . . The Bay of All Saints is one of the noblest harbors in the world; a magnificent sheet of water of an irregular circle, forty miles in length, and nearly the same in width, affording sheltered anchorage sufficient, it would almost seem, for all the ships of the world. It communicates with the sea by a narrow passage, two miles in length, scarcely one in width, through which we passed." Size: 19.5 x 14 cm. 0.0. N° de ref. del artículo 3508

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