Daylight Land. The Experiences, Incidents, and Adventures, Humorous and otherwise, which befell Judge John Doe, tourist, of San Francisco; Mr Cephas Pepperell, Capitalist, of Boston; Colonel Goffe, the Man from New Hampshire, and diverse others, in their Parlour-Car Excursion over Prairie and Mountain. All of Which I Saw, and One of Whom I Was.
Boston. Cupples and Hurd. 1888. 8vo. 22.5cm, 338,[4]p., with frontis and 150 sepia tone plates and illustrations, from photographs and drawings, original light fawn brown cloth, elaborate pictorial decorated stamped in black with titles stamped in white, in fine condition. (Spg). Item #42093
Bruns #274. "Contains The Big Nepigon Trout, Fish and Fishing in British Columbia, etc.". Lowther 794. "About one-third of the book relates to British Columbia.. Waterston p173. "An American writer who set two of his novels in northern Quebec, Murray recorded his Canadian travels in ambiguous ternms. He was interested in progress, yet attracted by the wilderness.
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