Research Catalog

Title

The Pennsylvania hermit [electronic resource] : a narrative of the most extraordinary life of Amos Wilson, who expired in a cave in the neighbourhood of Harrisburgh, (Penn.), after having therein lived in solitary retirement for the space of nineteen years, in consequence of the ignominious death of his sister.

Publication

Saint John, N.B. : Printed for and sold by E.W. Mitchell, 1840.

Details

Additional Authors

Wilson, Amos, -1821.

Description

23 p.; 22 cm.

Alternative Title

Life of Amos Wilson, &c.

Subject

• Wilson, Amos, -1821
• Wilson, Harriot
• Hermits > Pennsylvania
• Contentment
• Solitude

Note

• "Annexed is the writings of Wilson, while a recluse, and his reasons for preferring a state of solitude to that of the society of his fellow-beings."
• "Re-printed from the Philadelphia edition."
• "The sweets of solitude, or, Instructions to mankind : how they may be happy in a miserable world."--P. [12]-23.
• Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
• Sabin no. 104605.

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

• 733086864
• TGPSM10-B1743

Title

The Pennsylvania hermit [electronic resource] : a narrative of the most extraordinary life of Amos Wilson, who expired in a cave in the neighbourhood of Harrisburgh, (Penn.), after having therein lived in solitary retirement for the space of nineteen years, in consequence of the ignominious death of his sister.

Imprint

Saint John, N.B. : Printed for and sold by E.W. Mitchell, 1840.

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2011. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Local Note

Biography.

Connect to:

Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Wilson, Amos, -1821. Sweets of solitude.

Caption Title

Life of Amos Wilson, &c.