The Journey of the Flame ~ Walter Nordhoff (Fierro Blanco) 1933 1st Ed Hardcover - $8 - (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA)

KIRKUS REVIEW: A book not to be missed. Recaptures the color and romance and fiery zeal for adventure that made empire building a career for red-blooded men. The account of one year in the boyhood of Senor Don Juan Obrigon, as told to the transcriber almost one hundred years later. The boy was in peril of his life from the robber band bent on avenging a death of a church robber, whom twelve year old Juan had killed, so he joins the train of the Spanish Inspector-General on his tour of California from its lowest tip to San Francisco. Such a trip in 1810, held all the thrills of the maddest adventure tale, and ""The Flame"" lost nothing in the telling. Humor and a bit of the Munchausen element accorded a true spinner of tales, give added charm to an authentic picture of life in feudal Spanish America on the edge of savagery. An enthralling book, which every adventure loving man -- or woman -- will want. A bit of important Americana as well, and a book for a long haul. Walter Nordhoff (1855—1937) had a mining engineering degree from Yale, and worked as a European correspondent for the New York Herald before moving west to manage fifty thousand acres of his father’s land in Baja California, the area that inspired The Journey of the Flame. Nordhoff’s father, Charles, was also a writer, whose work includes travel guides and books on religion and slavery, and Nordhoff’s son, Charles Bernard Nordhoff, coauthored the th

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