Author: MAYO, William Starbuck.
Title: Kaloolah, or journeyings to the Djébel Kumri: an autobiography of Jonathan Romer.
Description: New York, G.P. Putnam, 1849. Original embossed green cloth with pictorial gilt decoration on front, spine lettered in gilt. With tinted lithographed frontispiece and title-page. XI,514 pp. First edition. - Mayo's (1812-1895) first novel, a tremendous succes going not less than nine editions till 1900. 'An adventure in three parts, the first detailing the early life of the hero, Jonathan Romer, an inquisitive youth from upper New York State. Based on Mayo's own experiences. In the second part, Roner goes to sea. He survives the capsizing of an American schooner off the Canaries and is forced into service aboard a Spanish slave ship. In the third part Romer is shipwrecked again off Spanish Morocco, is enslaved by Arabs and taken to Timbuktu' (Howgego V, M24). William Mayo wrote this book based on his own experiences in Africa and the Spanish-Morocco coast. - (Some marginal staining). Gay 457: C'est un récit d'aventures fabuleuses, sorte d'utopie satirique.
Keywords: Africa Morocco shipwrecks slavery
Title: Kaloolah, or journeyings to the Djébel Kumri: an autobiography of Jonathan Romer.
Description: New York, G.P. Putnam, 1849. Original embossed green cloth with pictorial gilt decoration on front, spine lettered in gilt. With tinted lithographed frontispiece and title-page. XI,514 pp. First edition. - Mayo's (1812-1895) first novel, a tremendous succes going not less than nine editions till 1900. 'An adventure in three parts, the first detailing the early life of the hero, Jonathan Romer, an inquisitive youth from upper New York State. Based on Mayo's own experiences. In the second part, Roner goes to sea. He survives the capsizing of an American schooner off the Canaries and is forced into service aboard a Spanish slave ship. In the third part Romer is shipwrecked again off Spanish Morocco, is enslaved by Arabs and taken to Timbuktu' (Howgego V, M24). William Mayo wrote this book based on his own experiences in Africa and the Spanish-Morocco coast. - (Some marginal staining). Gay 457: C'est un récit d'aventures fabuleuses, sorte d'utopie satirique.
Keywords: Africa Morocco shipwrecks slavery
Price: EUR 192.50 = appr. US$ 209.22 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 25680
- Book number: 25680