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- catalog abstract "Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) and his family came to America from Prussia when he was a boy and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. Winning a reputation as a journalist and writer on the sea, Nordhoff was managing editor of the New York Evening Post, 1861-1871. He spent 1872-1873 travelling to California and Hawaii, and returned east to become the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald. He continued to visit California frequently and spent his last years in Coronado. California: for health, pleasure and residence (1873) was an extremely popular guidebook that persuaded many to settle in California. It opens with descriptions of the various routes available to the traveller to California and the visitor to Yosemite. Next come suggested points of interest; California agriculture (with hints to prospective settlers); and notes on the Southern California climate".
- catalog contributor b5168518.
- catalog contributor b5168519.
- catalog coverage "California Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "California Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog coverage "California Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog created "1874.".
- catalog date "1874".
- catalog date "1874.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1874.".
- catalog description "Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) and his family came to America from Prussia when he was a boy and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. Winning a reputation as a journalist and writer on the sea, Nordhoff was managing editor of the New York Evening Post, 1861-1871. He spent 1872-1873 travelling to California and Hawaii, and returned east to become the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald. He continued to visit California frequently and spent his last years in Coronado. California: for health, pleasure and residence (1873) was an extremely popular guidebook that persuaded many to settle in California. It opens with descriptions of the various routes available to the traveller to California and the visitor to Yosemite. Next come suggested points of interest; California agriculture (with hints to prospective settlers); and notes on the Southern California climate".
- catalog extent "2 p. l., [11]-255 p. incl. illus., pl., maps.".
- catalog hasFormat "California, for health, pleasure, and residence.".
- catalog isFormatOf "California, for health, pleasure, and residence.".
- catalog issued "1874".
- catalog issued "1874.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Harper & brothers,".
- catalog relation "California, for health, pleasure, and residence.".
- catalog spatial "California Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "California Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog spatial "California Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "California.".
- catalog subject "Agriculture California.".
- catalog subject "F866 N6".
- catalog subject "Real estate development California.".
- catalog subject "Urbanization California.".
- catalog title "California: for health, pleasure, and residence. A book for travellers and settlers. By Charles Nordhoff ...".
- catalog type "text".