BX5 - A trade paperback book in near fine condition. An as new, unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. This is a title in the Portable Stanford series. A book about a Russian writer, Nicholas Russel (Nikolai Konstantinovich Sudzilovskii) who traveled through California from San Francisco to Soapweed in 1891 and wrote an unvarnished account of campers and cranks, country dances and cutthroat capitalism. An English translation of his writing makes up the first part of this book. Russel's original travelogue was translated from the Russian b...
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