JOHN DAVIS' TRAVELS OF FOUR YEARS AND A HALF IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1798–1802)
Dedicated by permission to Thomas Jefferson. Esq. First Published, London, 1803. With Introduction and Notes by Alfred J. Morrison. 8vo, 429 pps. $2.50 net, by mail $2.65.
The only book of the period written by a traveller in the United States the object of which is not so much statistical narrative as narrative purely. It is a story of wanderings from New York to South Carolina, and as such affords a most interesting picture of the greater part of the United States at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The author was a novelist and shows it in his book. A necessary book for even an exclusive collection of Americana. Measured by any standard an unusual book of travel.
Trevelyan in his "American Revolution" says of this book: "Among accounts of such voyages, none are more life-like; an exquisitely absurd book, which the world, to the diminution of its gaiety, has forgotten."
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