Literary Industries: Chasing a Vanishing West - Brossura

Bancroft, Hubert Howe; Bancroft, Kim

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ISBN 10: 1597142484 ISBN 13: 9781597142489

Casa editrice: Heyday Books, 2014

Riassunto

"A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) rose to become the man who would define the early history of California and the West. Creating what he called a "history factory," he assembled a vast library of over sixty thousand books, maps, letters, and documents; hired scribes to copy material in private hands; employed interviewers to capture the memories of early Spanish and Mexican settlers; and published multiple volumes sold throughout the country by his subscription agents. In 1890 he published an eight-hundred-page autobiography, aptly entitled Literary Industries. Literary Industries sparkles with the exuberance of nineteenth-century California and introduces us to a man of great complexity and wit. Editedfor the modern reader and yet relating the history of the West as it was taking place--and as it was being recorded--Kim Bancroft's edition of Literary Industries is a joy to read" --

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Heyday Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1597142484
• ISBN 13: 9781597142489
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 254