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Chapter 1
UPS AND DOWNS OF FORTUNE--MY FATHER STARTS FOR EREWHON
The narrator, son of the original explorer, recounts how fame from the first "Erewhon" curdled into ridicule and sets up the diaries behind his father's second, secret journey.
Fate of the first bookPublic fickleness & fameFather's declining yearsNarrator as editor of the diariesSetup for a second journey