Title: A journey in the back country.Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery ...
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Title: A journey in the back country.Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02509800CollectionID: CTRG98-B1366PublicationDate: 18600101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Includes index.Collation: xvi, [11]-492 p.; 19 cm
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 6 x 8 1/2. 492 page hardcover-a facsimile reprint of the 1860 original. Dust jacket is bright, complete and clean. Black exterior with title on spine in gold-very good condition. However, the book has a peculiar flaw in that the book is bound upside down-but since the dust jacket is present you don't know that. It would only be a minor flaw without the dust jacket. The interior is very good condition-unmarked, tight and clean.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Reprint edition. (african americans, slavery, southern states, history) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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First edition. 8vo. xvi, [11]-492 pp. With the half-title. Howes O-77. Sabin 57241. Clark Old South III, 481: "A record of Olmsted's observations made during a trip through Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and the back country of the Carolinas and Virginia. He passed through such towns as Woodville (Miss. ), Natchez, Jackson, Vicksburg, Memphis, Tuscaloosa, Asheville, and Richmond. However, the value of the book lies in his description of rural life...one of the outstanding features of the book is the author's attempt to compare and contrast the various social classes of the North and South. Although it is known that Olmsted privately acknowledged that there was a great deal of rowdyism and commonness among the northern farmers and laborers and no true aristocrats in the southern sense, still he avoided this in his writing and played up what he considered the higher general level of culture in the North as compared with the general backwardness of the South." Some age-toning to text, but very good. Late 20th-century green half-morocco and marbled boards, with new endpapers. (9463).