Author: John Henry SherburnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Tourist's Guide
Author: John Henry SherburnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Tourist's Guide, Or Pencillings in England and on the Continent; with the Expenses, Conveyances, Distances, Sights, Hotels, Etc. and Important Hints to the Tourist
Author: John Henry SHERBURNEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Tourist's Guide
Author: The Tourist's Guide, Or Pencillings in England and on the Continent; with the Expenses, Conveyances, Distances, Sights, Hotels, Etc. and Important Hints to the Tourist
Author: John Henry SherburnePublisher:
ISBN: 9780461846652
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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The Tourist's Guide
Author: John Henry SherburnePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282990657
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Excerpt from The Tourist's Guide: Or Pencillings in England and on the Continent; With the Expenses, Conveyances, Distances, Sights, Hotels, Etc.; And Important Hints to the Tourist Out of the very numerous number of American citizens who visit Europe, i feel assured there are at least one, if not two thirds who determine on leaving the United States without any settled place, without any fixed resolve as to their ulti mate place of destination, leaving to chance, when they ar rive, or to the advice of their friends, the choice of their future residence or movements. Now, it unfortunately hap pens that every. Person who has travelled, takes his own par ticular view, forms his own particular opinion of the gaiety, the dulness, the cheapness, or the extravagance of the diffe rent towns he visits; an inequality of fortune or of health often giving a bias, and colouring with gloom or brightness the different cities he may be questioned about. To obviate in some measure these conflicting modes of oh taining correct information, this volume is undertaken; to point out the expenses to the economical traveller, the en riosi ties to be seen by the more inquisitive visiter, and to give a general view of the society and arrangements which may here be obtained by the more light-hearted voyager. Add to this, the best modes of travelling, and other subjects interest ing and instructive to the tourist, and the object of the pre sent work is given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Admiral and the Ambassador
Author: Scott MartellePublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613747330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
On July 20, 1792, the body of Admiral John Paul Jones, Father of the American Navy, was buried in the Saint LouisCemetery on the outskirts of Paris. As the French Revolution was gathering steam, the unmarked location of Jones's grave was nobody's primary concern. And though the admiral was not forgotten to history, in time he was certainly lost beneath the soil in the City of Light. Luckily, Jones had been sealed in a lead-lined coffin filled with alcohol to preserve the body. In theory, if somebody could locate that coffin, Jones could be returned to the United States for a proper burial. That somebody was Horace Porter, Civil War hero, aide to General (and later President) Ulysses S. Grant, Republican Party fundraiser, and US ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905. Porter had been a driving force in the creation of Grant's Tomb, and he developed a similar sense of duty regarding the final interment of John Paul Jones. The Admiral and the Ambassador details Porter's long, relentless search for the lead-lined coffin, first through scraps of archive material and written recollections of funeral attendees, and then beneath the rickety buildings that had been constructed over what Porter believed to be the graveyard. Part history, part biography, and part detective story, The Admiral and the Ambassador is a fascinating look into the compelling real-life characters who populated the first century of the United States of America.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: American Travellers Abroad
Author: Harold Frederick SmithPublisher: Carbondale : Library, Southern Illinois University
ISBN:
Category : Travelers
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
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