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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knelb, Ph. H. (Philip H.)
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Adventure stories.
- Voyages and travels--Juvenile fiction.
- Voyages and travels.
- Seafaring life--Juvenile fiction.
- Seafaring life.
- Shipwrecks--Juvenile fiction.
- Shipwrecks.
- Slavery--Great Britain--Juvenile fiction.
- Slavery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p., [4] leaves of plates ) col. ill. ;
- Other Title:
- Narratives of an old traveller
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : W.P. Hazard, 1854 [c1853]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Added, engr. t.p.
- Lithographed plates tinted cream over black key. Title plate signed: P Kramer del Chillas lith 50 S 3d St Phil.
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 38092.
- OCLC:
- 11
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