Letters from an American Farmer

Name: Letters from an American Farmer
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ISBN: 9780486444086

ISBN-10: 0486444082

ISBN-13: 9780486444086

Edition: 2005

Authors: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur

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18th-century classic detailing seafaring life in New England and plantation culture in the South also provided Old World readers with first major impressions of American landscapes, people, institutions, and problems of making one nation out of diverse former colonies. introduction and Notes by Warren Barton Blake.

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English




Introduction



On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer



What Is an American



Description of the Island of Nantucket, with the Manners, Customs, Policy, and Trade of the Inhabitants



Customary Education and Employment of the Inhabitants of Nantucket



Description of the Island of Martha's Vineyard, and of the Whale Fishery



Manners and Customs at Nantucket



Peculiar Customs at Nantucket



Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene



On Snakes; and on the Humming Bird



From Mr. Iw-n Al-z, a Russian Gentleman, Describing the Visit He Paid at my Request to Mr. John Bertram, the Celebrated Pennsylvania Botanist



Distresses of a Frontier Man


Notes


Index