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Browne letters reveal wild world traveler and artist
J Ross Browne, edited by Linda Fergusson Browne, New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, $10.95, presents letters and woodcuts of the famed traveler and writer. The collection notes Browne’s dramatic reports from travels after 1840, fame through journalism, and influence on Herman Melville and Mark Twain, with his life ending in 1875 likely from appendicitis.
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J. Ross Browne
Linda Fergusson Browne
University of New Mexico Press
Albuquerque
J. Ross Brown
University of New Mexico
Brown
Browne
Herman Melville
Mark Twain