Schliemann and the California Gold Rush The 1850 1852 American travel journal of Heinrich Schliemann a transcription and translation 1st Edition by Christo Thanos, Wout Arentzen ISBN 9088902550 978-9088902550

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ISBN 10: 9088902550 

ISBN 13: 978-9088902550

Author: Christo Thanos, Wout Arentzen

In this second part of The Schliemann Diaries we follow Heinrich Schliemann (the famous 19th century archaeologist, trader and traveller) through his diary on his second journey: his travels to America from December 1850 to March 1853. The original diary was written in English and for a small part in Spanish. This publication is a transcription and translation of Schliemann’s travel diary.
In 1850 the millionaire Schliemann decided to end his job as trader in Russia and to try his luck in the United States. He travelled via Europe to New York and Washington and then via Panama on to the goldfields in California. He made a second fortune in Sacramento with buying gold dust and with banking. After two years he returned to Europe and got married in St Petersburg.
In this diary Schliemann describes his travels from the perspective of a wealthy business man in the mid-19th century and writes about the landscape, his visits to the theatre, the hotels he used, his much discussed meeting with the American president, his lucrative banking business in California, etc. His travels and accommodation weren’t always without danger. Schliemann describes in detail the extreme heat and humidity, fatal illnesses, rainstorms, floods, mosquitoes, robbers, murderers and swindlers.
Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) was a shrewd trader and later in life he became one of the best known archaeologists of the 19th century for discovering the legendary city of Troy and the golden masks of Mycenae. Schliemann also made many travels around the world and recorded his experiences in several diaries. In this series, all Schliemann’s travel diaries will be made available to a wider public by means of a transcription, an English translation and an introduction. These publications will present a new image of the trader and archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann and the world in which he lived.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction
2. Schliemann and the making of his second fortune (Wout Arentzen)
3. The Travel journal
4. The Californian gold rush
5. A disappointment in love
6. The outward journey
7. The shipwreck
8. The East Coast
9. A visit to the President
10. The itinerary
11. Panama
12. The journey from Panama to San Francisco
13. California
14. Ludwig’s grave
15. The Sacramento River
16. The Gold fields
17. The Banking House of Henry Schliemann
18. Schliemann-Davidson
19. A nasty wound
20. A British sweetheart and a new native country?
21. Mecklenburg and then home
22. Later received information
23. The conflagration of San Francisco
24. The autobiography
25. The Bill
26. Schliemann’s dates and whereabouts (Christo Thanos)
27. The transcription (Christo Thanos)
28. Introduction to the transcription
29. The journal
30. Editorial method
31. Symbols used in the transcription
32. The transcription of the diary
33. The transcription of the autobiography
34. Spanish translation
35. Nienke Brouwer (translation) and Wout Arentzen (editor and comm.)
36. List of figures
37. References
38. Index

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