Threescore years an autobiography, containing incidents of voyages and travels, including six years in a man-of-war. Details of the war between the United States and the Algerine government, bombardment of Algiers by Lord Exmouth, and its subjugation by the French. Also, two years in California, a visit to the Crimea during the bombardment and captive of Sebastopol, journey through Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine and Egypt ..

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Author

Holbrook, Samuel F., b. 1793.

Title

Threescore years [microform]: an autobiography, containing incidents of voyages and travels, including six years in a man-of-war. Details of the war between the United States and the Algerine government, bombardment of Algiers by Lord Exmouth, and its subjugation by the French. Also, two years in California, a visit to the Crimea during the bombardment and captive of Sebastopol, journey through Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine and Egypt ... By Samuel F. Holbrook.

Published

Boston, J. French, 1857.

Physical Description

vi p., 2 ., [11]-504 p. front., illus., plates 20 cm.

Notes

"I shall resume the narrative ... with my journey through Europe to Sebastopol, Asia Minor [etc.]"--p. 504.

Capture of the Essex: p. 316-340.

Chaps. XXV-XXVII describe the author's experiences in California, 1849-1850.

Master microform held by: ResP.

Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn., Research Publications, 1975. 1 reel. 35 mm. (Western Americana, reel 265, no. 2617)

Format

Books / Microforms