Culmer sr frederick (1 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: The Author, Salt Lake City, Utah 1886
- Softcover
- Erstausgabe
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Softcover. Zustand: Fair. First edition. Tall octavo. 18pp. Printed wrappers. Ex-Library of Congress with their stamp on the title page and two numbers penciled on the cover. Cover detached with edge chipping and a dampstain in one corner, lower wrap with some loss as well, a fair copy; the interior is otherwise bright. An inter…esting pamphlet by this English-born Mormon settler and amateur geographer. Culmer was a student of John Cleves Symmes Jr. and believed that the interior of the earth was accessible at the poles (which, mind you, weren't physically accessed until the 20th Century). Of the interior's inhabitants, he writes: "There, are sheltered the herds during the meridional winter; there thrive the flowers and fruits unknown. One there may encounter creatures of form and habits different from ours, and perhaps even a human race contrasting in every point with those with exist upon the surface of the earth." Culmer also "uses Mormon sources for part of his proof" (Flake 2607). *OCLC* locates only six copies (LOC, Harvard, Berkeley, Utah, two in Wisconsin).
