Felix Wierzbicki
Title page of California As It Is and As It May Be
Felix Wierzbicki (Polish: Feliks Paweł Wierzbicki) (January 1, 1815, Czerniawka, Volhynia, Poland, now Chernyavka, Ukraine — December 26, 1860) was a Polish-American doctor, soldier, veteran of the November Uprising,[1] traveler, and writer.[2]
In 1849, Wierzbicki published in San Francisco the first English-language book printed in California,[3] California As It Is and As It May Be.[4][5][6] The book is an "unvarnished" description of the culture, peoples, and climate of the area at that time. Wierzbicki described prospective settlers, and included a survey of agriculture and hints on gold mining.[7]
His remains were eventually interred at the San Francisco National Cemetery.[1][3]
Books
- California As It Is and As It May Be, 1849
- The Ideal Man; A Conversation Between Two Friends, upon the Beautiful, the Good, and the True, as Manifested in Actual Life, 1842, Boston, E.P. Peabody[8]
References
- 1 2 Teofil Lachowicz, Polish Freedom Fighters on American Soil: Polish Veterans in America from the Revolutionary War to 1939, ISBN 1936198312, 2011 p. 21
- ↑ "Wierzbicki Feliks Paweł", Encyklopedia PWN
- 1 2 Gillian Olechno-Huszcza (Spring 1985). "Feliks Pawel Wierzbicki in California" (PDF). Vol. 42, No. 1. Polish American Studies. pp. 59–69. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
- ↑ Felix Wierzbicki, "California Guidebook", 1849
- ↑ Wierzbicki, Felix Paul. California As It Is and As It May Be. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1933
- ↑ Felix Wierzbicki, California Guidebook, 1849 online
- ↑ California As I Saw It, 1849-1900. Vol. 15. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999
- ↑
- ↑ Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature, 1928, Vol. 3 P. 128
- ↑ A contemporary review of the book, The Boston Quarterly Review, April 1842
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