{"product_id":"four-months-among-the-gold-finders-in-alta-california-being-the-diary-of-an-expedition-from-san-francisco-to-the-gold-districts-paperback-9781108033381","title":"Four Months among the Gold-Finders in Alta California; Being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108033381","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFour Months among the Gold-Finders in Alta California\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBeing the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis fictitious diary about the Californian Gold Rush was widely accepted as genuine, and was a bestseller in 1849.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJ. Tyrwhitt Brooks (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108033381, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 September 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.3 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eJ. Tyrwhitt Brooks was a pseudonym of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820–94). Born in London, Vizetelly was apprenticed to a wood engraver as a young child. He entered the printing business and helped found two successful but short-lived newspapers, the Pictorial Times and the Illustrated Times. His Four Months among the Gold-Finders, published in 1849, was a commercial and critical success on both sides of the Atlantic. It purported to be a genuine diary about the Californian Gold Rush, and was widely accepted as such. However, he admits in his 1893 autobiography, Glances Back Through Seventy Years (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection) that it was an elaborate hoax. The supposed author was a doctor (whose testimony would be considered reliable) who had found and then lost a fortune. The Times reviewed it enthusiastically and at length as a morality tale for its time.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Clearing the Faranolles\u003cbr\u003e 2. Start for Monterey\u003cbr\u003e 3. An arrival at San Francisco from the gold district\u003cbr\u003e 4. The party leave San Francisco\u003cbr\u003e 5. Encampment for the night\u003cbr\u003e 6. The journey delayed\u003cbr\u003e 7. Captain Sutter's account of the first discovery of the gold\u003cbr\u003e 8. The author and his friends leave Sutter's Ford\u003cbr\u003e 9. Two horses stray away\u003cbr\u003e 10. Digging and washing, with a few reflections\u003cbr\u003e 11. The proceedings of the week\u003cbr\u003e 12. The party leave the Mormon diggings\u003cbr\u003e 13. The party again shift their quarters\u003cbr\u003e 14. Smoking and sleeping\u003cbr\u003e 15. The party determine to start for Bear River\u003cbr\u003e 16. A rest\u003cbr\u003e 17. A rich mine of gold discovered\u003cbr\u003e 18. Where McPhail was last seen\u003cbr\u003e 19. The party strengthen their defences\u003cbr\u003e 20. The author inclined to return to the coast\u003cbr\u003e 21. The party start for the coast\u003cbr\u003e 22. The stock of gold remaining weighed and shared\u003cbr\u003e 23. The gold district\u003cbr\u003e 24. The author and his friends part company\u003cbr\u003e 25. Letter from the author to his brother in England.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266035732760,"sku":"9781108033381","price":22.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108033381i.jpg?v=1694873741","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/four-months-among-the-gold-finders-in-alta-california-being-the-diary-of-an-expedition-from-san-francisco-to-the-gold-districts-paperback-9781108033381","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}