Northern California, Oregon and the Sandwich Islands (1874) Contributor(s): Nordhoff, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0548667004 ISBN-13: 9780548667002 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) was an American journalist, descriptive and miscellaneous writer. He was born in Erwitte, Germany (Prussia) in 1830, and emigrated to the USA in 1845. He was educated in Cincinnati, and was for nine years at sea, in the navy and merchant service; from 1853 to 1857 in various newspaper offices; was then employed editorially by the Harpers (1861), and for the next ten years on the staff of the New York Evening Post. From 1871 to 1873 Nordhoff travelled in California and visited Hawaii. He then became Washington correspondent of the New York Herald. His most widely known books are Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands (1874), Communistic Societies of the United States (1857) and God and the Future Life (1881). |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: 917.94 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.86 lbs) 264 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California - Geographic Orientation - Oregon |