The White Hills; Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry. with Sixty Illustrations Engraved by Andrew, from Drawings by Wheelock. F.p.

Publisher Marketing: Title: The White Hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. With sixty illustrations engraved by Andrew, from drawings by Wheelock. F. P. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library King, Thomas Starr.; Andrew, John Engraver. WHEELOCK Artist. 1860 8 . 10411.cc.5. Contributor Bio:  King, Thomas Starr A Unitarian Minister, Thomas Starr King was influential in California politics during the Civil War. Speaking zealously for the Union, he was credited by Abraham Lincoln for keeping California from becoming a separate country. Also during the war, he helped create the United States Sanitary Commission, the predecessor to the American Red Cross. Dr. Paul Rich has had a keen interest in Starr King's New England career at the Hollis Street Church, so much a part of his story. He is a member of the Bostonian Society, the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, and the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.