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Karl Marx and the Lost California Manifesto

By Scott D Carlson
Hardcover
$25.99
By Scott D Carlson

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Facing debtors' prison in London, a desperate Karl Marx sails to California in 1849, hoping for gold for himself and The Revolution. In San Francisco he meets the equally desperate Sixto, a plucky teenager raised by padres in a mission, who's on the run from a crazy shipwrecked sailor.

These unlikeliest of 49ers pair up for an often comic, sometimes perilous picaresque adventure in the Sierra Nevada. Followed by bungling Prussian agents trying to seize Marx's Manifesto, the prospecting pair...