Louise V. North

The Travel Journals of Henrietta Marchant Liston

North America and Lower Canada, 1796-1800

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Produktbeschreibung

Henrietta Marchant Liston's journal writing evokes a sense of immediacy that enables readers to understand and appreciate not only the difficulties of travel and communication, but also to hear first-hand of the political conflicts experienced by the young United States over two hundred years ago.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780739195505
• ISBN-10: 0739195506
• Artikelnr.: 41612054

Autorenporträt

Louise V. North is the author of Selected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay and In the Words of Women: The Revolutionary War and the Birth of the Nation, 1765-1799.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Illustrations Introduction Chapter One: 1796 North
America, Newyork. Chapter Two: 1797 Resignation of General Washington as
President of the United States. Tour to the Southern States-Virginia, North
& South Carolinas. Chapter Three: 1798 Philadelphia. Tour to Newyork & the
Eastern States. Chapter Four: 1799 Journey to New Lebanon Springs, to Lake
George, & to Fort Ticonderoga. Journal to the Falls of Niagara. Death of
Washington. Chapter Five: 1800 Journey to the Natural Bridge in Virginia.
Journal to lower Canada. Description of George Washington. Journal from the
United States to the West Indies (excerpt). Epilogue Appendix: Travel
Itineraries Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments About the Author