American Notes for General Circulation
A lively chronicle of his five-month trip around the United States in 1842, the book records the author's adventures journeying by steamboat and stagecoach as well as his impressions of everything from schools and prisons to table manners and slavery. American Notes is the fascinating travel journal of one of 19th century America's most celebrated tourists--Charles Dickens.
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American Notes for General Circulation
A lively chronicle of his five-month trip around the United States in 1842, the book records the author's adventures journeying by steamboat and stagecoach as well as his impressions of everything from schools and prisons to table manners and slavery. American Notes is the fascinating travel journal of one of 19th century America's most celebrated tourists--Charles Dickens.
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American Notes for General Circulation

American Notes for General Circulation

by Charles Dickens, Tom Crouse
American Notes for General Circulation

American Notes for General Circulation

by Charles Dickens, Tom Crouse

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A lively chronicle of his five-month trip around the United States in 1842, the book records the author's adventures journeying by steamboat and stagecoach as well as his impressions of everything from schools and prisons to table manners and slavery. American Notes is the fascinating travel journal of one of 19th century America's most celebrated tourists--Charles Dickens.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781499150391
Publisher: Amazon
Publication date: 01/28/2014
Edition description: New Edition
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Charles Dickens is one of the greatest and most widely read of novelists writing in English. "Great Expectations" is only one of some fifteen novels, all of whose titles are common currency and all of which have been repeatedly dramatized for stage, screen and radio.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington

Table of Contents

1. A night steamer on the Potomac river; 2. Some further account of the canal-boat; 3. From Pittsburg to Cincinnati in a western steam boat; 4. From Cincinnati to Louisville in another western steam boat; 5. A jaunt to the looking-glass prairie and back; 6. Return to Cincinnati; 7. In Canada; 8. The passage home; 9. Slavery; 10. Concluding remarks.

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