The narratives of an old traveller : containing the perils and hair-breadth escapes from shipwreck, famine, wild beasts, savages, etc., of travellers in every part of the world / from the German of Ph. H. Knelb, by a Lady.
| Author/creator | Knelb, Ph. H. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : W.P. Hazard, 1854 [c1853] |
| Description | 192 p., [4] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Lady. |
| Other author/creator | Hazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope), 1825-1913. |
| Other author/creator | Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907. |
| Other author/creator | Chillas, David. |
| Added title page | Narratives of an old traveller told to young people |
| Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | The island of Ceylon -- Fire at sea -- The desert -- Shipwreck and starvation -- The little African's adventures -- An adventure in the time of the Circassian war -- The Tschutski -- The fair of Nishni Novgorod. |
| Local note | Arts and Literature; Travel; Maritime; Slavery. |
| Local note | 2011AF26600. |
| General note | Added, engr. t.p. |
| General note | Lithographed plates tinted cream over black key. Title plate signed: P Kramer del Chillas lith 50 S 3d St Phil. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society. |
| General note | Sabin no. 38092. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, 2012. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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