This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...and who had not realised that the end of their journey to the wilderness would land them in so simple a place as this. To me the wonder is, how well so large an influx of visitors is provided for. Though there is nothing fine, there is always abundance of good wholesome food--beef and mutton, milk and butter, fresh ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...and who had not realised that the end of their journey to the wilderness would land them in so simple a place as this. To me the wonder is, how well so large an influx of visitors is provided for. Though there is nothing fine, there is always abundance of good wholesome food--beef and mutton, milk and butter, fresh vegetables, and excellent bread--all the produce of the valley; besides all manner of good things imported from the plains--" canned" fruits and so forth. A standing dish is so-called green corn (which is yellow maize John Chinaman's Baking. 191 canned in its youth). It is de regie here for each person to have a separate little plate for each kind of vegetable, so that each large plate is encircled by a necklace of little ones. I am told that the pastry is capital; but I eschew it, not liking the Chinese cook's method of preparing it! I know he makes the bread in the same way, but I have to forget that! In case you are not "up" in this pleasant topic, I may tell you that a Chinese baker or washerman has one unvarying method of damping his bread or his linen. He keeps a bowl of water beside him, and with his long thin lips draws up a mouthful, which he then spurts forth in a cloud of the finest spray. Having thus damped the surface evenly, and quite to his own satisfaction, he proceeds to roll his pastry or iron his table-cloth to that of all beholders. It does not do in this world to pry too carefully into antecedents. Eesults are the main point! Some folk are so prejudiced, that they dislike John Chinaman's method of getting up snowy linen, and are content to pay a far higher price to have their washing done by any other race; so that a family of half-caste Spanish washerwomen who have settled here make a very good thing of i...
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Add this copy of Granite Crags of California to cart. $125.00, very good condition, Sold by White Raven Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ypsilanti, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1886 by William Blackwood and Sons.
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Pale blue cloth, black titles, pictorial cover, chocolate endpapers/pastedown, top edges darkened, tissued frontis, 4 additional full page black & white illustrations, & small fold-out Map of the Yosemite Valley; A very good nominally exlibrary copy with slightly darkened spine, & early bookplate inside front cover; 384 pages + 24 pages of publisher advertisements. Size: 5.25"x8"
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