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Travels in America and Italy (Volumes I & II)
Travels in America and Italy (Volumes I & II) – Francois-René Chateaubriand Chateaubriand was born in Brittany, Sept. 14, 1768. At the time of the French Revolution he took part at first with the exiled royalists, but, returning to France, was employed in a diplomatic service by Napoleon. On the murder of the Duc d’Enghein, […]
New York In Bygone Days – Its Story, Streets And Landmarks
New York In Bygone Days – Its Story, Streets And Landmarks – Rufus Rockwell Wilson Verily this Island of Manhattan is exposed to the danger of being snowed under by the showers of works scattered broadcast by her chroniclers, her eulogists, and her critics. Plentiful has been the crop of local commentaries. „New York in […]
Rambles in Colonial Byways
Rambles in Colonial Byways – Rufus Rockwell Wilson Good to look at and pleasant to read are the sketches of old colonial times entitled „Rambles in Colonial Byways.“. In them the author sets forth in pleasing style the result of his observations during a series of leisurely jaunts to various nooks and byways in New […]
Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston
Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston – Samuel Adams Drake There are thousands of people who have never seen (and are not likely ever to see) the interesting capital of Massachusetts, to whom, however, this volume will recommend itself, for various reasons. Boston is especially dear to us Americans and reading Mr. Drake’s well-written […]
Hamilton’s Itinerarium
Hamilton’s Itinerarium – Alexander Hamilton Among the numerous journals and narratives of travel during the Colonial period, few are so lively and so full of good-humored comment on people and customs as the Itinerarium of Dr. Hamilton. The subject of this volume is a journey which Dr. Hamilton undertook in 1744, leaving Annapolis May 30, […]
Burnaby’s Travels through North America
Burnaby’s Travels through North America – Andrew Burnaby „Travels Through North America,“ by Andrew Burnaby, was originally published in London and this reprint is from the third edition of 1798. It is somewhat amusing to read the prognostications of the keen-eyed and quick-brained doctor of divinity, when he says: „He still thinks that the present […]
The Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad – Charles Godfrey Leland This book contains the record of a journey made by a party of gentlemen from Philadelphia to Kansas and back, during the month of November, 1866. The object of the excursion was to examine the condition of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, to assemble in council, […]
A Tour on the Prairies
A Tour on the Prairies – Washington Irving The productions of Washington Irving are deservedly held in high estimation, not so much, perhaps, for their intrinsic merits as literary compositions, although in this respect they hold no mean position, as for the inimitable tracings of adventurous life which they display through all their gradations and […]
Letters from an American farmer
Letters from an American farmer – J. Hector St. John St, John (Crèvecœur) wrote these “Letters” during a period of seven years prior to the American Revolutionary War, while farming land near Orange County, New York. They are told from the viewpoint of a fictional narrator in correspondence with an English gentleman, and each letter […]
Hamilton’s Itinerarium
Hamilton’s Itinerarium – Alexander Hamilton A narrative of a journey from Annapolis, Maryland, through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, from May to September, 1744. Dr. Hamilton’s work is widely recognized as an unique document of the life in colonial America. Format: Paperback. Hamilton’s Itinerarium. ISBN: 9783849678098. Available […]