The Life Adventures And Unparalleled Sufferings Of Andrew Oehler Containing An Account Of His

by Andrew Oehler

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First edition

Trenton, NJ: D. Fenton, L. Deare, Printer, N. Brunswick, 1811. First edition there were two issues, the other lists The Author as publisher . 12mo in sixes. 226 pp. After traveling through Europe in the 1790s, Oehler arrived in Charleston in 1802, learned how to build hot-air balloons in Georgia in 1803, and made ascensions in Nashville, Natchez, and New Orleans in 1805 before moving on to Cuba and Mexico; returning to New Orleans in 1807, he continued on to

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