THE EXPLORER KING; Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax--Clarence King in the Old West
WILSON, Robert
From Hardy Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 15 October 2012
From Hardy Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 15 October 2012
About this Item
(13) 302 (1) pp. Illustrated, from period photographs and 2 maps. Illustrated unclipped dust jacket. Bibliography, Notes and Index. Cloth-backed boards. Remainder mark. 6" x 9 1/4". From the flap: "In this, one of the year's most compelling biographies, Robert Wilson paints a brilliant portrait of Clarence King--a scientist-explorer whose mountain-scaling, desert-crossing, river-fording, blizzard-surviving adventures helped create the new West of the nineteenth century.The Yale-educated King went west in 1863 at age twenty-one as geologist-explorer. During the next decade he scaled the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada, published a popular book now considered a classic of advernture literatiure, initiated a ground-breaking land survey of the American West, and ultimately uncovered one of the greatest frauds of the century--the Great Diamond Hoax, a discovery that made him an international celebrity at a time when they were few and far between." But for a remainder mark at the bottom of the leaves, an As New copy in an As New unclipped dust jacket, now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. Seller Inventory # 2864
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE EXPLORER KING; Adventure, Science, and ...
Publisher: Scribner, New York
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Cloth-backed Boards
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Edition: First Edition.
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