A Trip to Bodie Bluff and Dead Sea of West. by Browne. --1 to 9 copies

Description: This listing is for 1 to 9 copies of A Trip to Bodie Bluff and the Dead Sea of the West (Mono Lake)--in 1863. written and illustrated by J. Ross Browne. The adventures of a noted humorist of the 1860s during an excursion at their heyday to the mines of Bodie, Aurora, and the Mono Lake region. Author Browne was a man of many hats: he was a minerals engineer, an almost politician, locator of coastal post offices in California, recorder and publisher of California's constitutional convention, and writer and artist for Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Browne's writing is not of the "superlative" or romantic variety popular at his time; instead Browne found fun in the foibles of man's endeavors--and poked at them. In fact, Mark Twain's earlier writings were on this same region of eastern California and central Nevada, and the incidents and even the illustrations in Twain's works seem to have been inspired by Browne's preceding writing. Today, we can still see vestiges of some of the scenes Browne saw, for California maintains Bodie today in "a state of arrested decay" as a state park. Park visitors will better understand the scene with these insights from an earlier visitor. Illustrated, 72 pages. ISBN-10: 0-89646-076-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-076-8. Published by VistaBooks. Out of print except for scuffed copies available. Binding is trade paper with perfect-bind spine printed with title and author. This book is listed by the publisher at 4.95 per copy; the ebay single-copy price is much lower and there are further discounts for orders of 2-8 on this page. The book is from publisher's inventory and has never circulated. Covers are scuffed, however, yet contents are intact an perfect binding is strong.. Ships via U.S. media mail to U.S. addresses only; allow 10 days to ship. If order is needed before stated handling time, email your needs before ordering as we can usually comply--we will email our response; we just don't want to suggest more than what we might be able to do in case we're in a crunch or on a trip. For more titles on nature, outdoors, American history see the VistaBooks Outlet store. Also, medleys of multiple titles are available there for themes of Western Americana, Colorado, Yosemite, Native American, national parks, maritime, Nevada/Great Basin, Lake Tahoe/Virginia City NV, Hawaii, California, exploring/mountaineering, Yellowstone/Grand Teton, John Muir.

Price: 6.95 USD

Location: Silverthorne, Colorado

End Time: 2024-08-16T03:52:09.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.95 USD