The Journals of Addison Pratt: Being a Narrative of Yankee Whaling in the Eighteen Twenties, A Mormon Mission to the Society Islands and of Early California and Utah in the Eighteen Forties and Fifties

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1990. First Edition. 606pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth with the titles silver stamped on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. Volume 6 in the Publications in Mormon Studies series. Addison Pratt's life intersected three important sets of events of nineteenth century American history: New England whaling, the early Mormon Church, and the California gold rush. Although elements of Pratt's journals can be said to match those of Lewis & Clark or James Pritchard, the diversity of experience is absolutely unparalleled. (Inventory #: 10052)