IRVING'S ASTORIA.
LATELY PUBLISHED BY
CAREY, LEA AND BLANCHARD,
PHILADELPHIA,
ASTORIA:
OR,
ANECDOTES OF AN ENTERPRISE
BEYOND THE
ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
BY WASHINGTON IRVING.
HANDSOMELY BOUND—IN TWO VOLS. EMBOSSED CLOTH.
“As a fireside book, for a general circle, we have met with nothing
likely to prove as acceptable, since the appearance of that strange, but
fascinating puzzle, `Sir Edward Seaward's Diary.' ”
—Athenœum.
“The most finished narrative of a series of adventures that ever was
written, whether with regard to plan or execution. The arrangement has
all the art of fiction, yet without any apparent sacrifice of truth or exactness;
the composition we are inclined to rate as the chef d'œuvre of
Washington Irving.”
—London Spectator.
“The enterprise embraced expeditions by sea and land, which gave rise
to various adventures `by flood and field,' that fell to the lot of the hardy
adventurers who embarked in them. Their `hairbreadth escapes'—the
thrilling incidents of their journeying—the sights seen in their travel—
the various Indian tribes whom they visited—their privations and sufferings,
and their own characteristics, as elicited and developed by the circumstances
into which they fell, form entertaining episodes from the main
body of the work, and impart to it the greater portion of its interest.
“The merits of Astoria are many and sterling, and not the least among
them is, that it gives, perhaps, a better idea of the great far-off West than
any of its predecessors, which have been founded on the same subject;
we can therefore commend it as a work, not only of great interest, but of
great utility.”
—Daily Evening Post.
