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- catalog abstract ""Richard Champion Rawlins, a twenty-year-old Liverpool cotton broker, sailed to the United States in 1839 to collect his family's share of the estate of his grandfather, Richard Champion, one of whose ships and cargo had been impounded and sold during the War for Independence. He spent three months in New Orleans buying cotton with the legacy and shipping it to England, but he also made the most of a once-in-a-life-time opportunity by staying in America for almost a year to see as much of the country and its institutions as he could." "He had an eye and ear for detail and a flair for description, and he set out to record for his family everything he saw and heard, giving them a meticulous, exuberant, and entertaining account of his travels, covering nearly 10,000 miles by stage, omnibus, steamboat, canal barge, railroad, and occasionally horseback, from the east coast to the western frontier of the then twenty-six states, and from New Orleans to Quebec." "He described landscape and townscape with equal facility, noting for instance the interplay of whitewashed houses and willow-lined streets in Old New York, and looking down from his sixth-floor room in the American Hotel at the walking pygmies below. He would set up his writing materials each night after reaching a welcome inn to record an uncomfortable day's ride or high adventure in mountainous terrain often in atrocious conditions, only to be called from his bed in the early hours of the morning to rejoin the stage."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12451793.
- catalog contributor b12451794.
- catalog coverage "United States Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 1783-1865.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""He described landscape and townscape with equal facility, noting for instance the interplay of whitewashed houses and willow-lined streets in Old New York, and looking down from his sixth-floor room in the American Hotel at the walking pygmies below. He would set up his writing materials each night after reaching a welcome inn to record an uncomfortable day's ride or high adventure in mountainous terrain often in atrocious conditions, only to be called from his bed in the early hours of the morning to rejoin the stage."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""He had an eye and ear for detail and a flair for description, and he set out to record for his family everything he saw and heard, giving them a meticulous, exuberant, and entertaining account of his travels, covering nearly 10,000 miles by stage, omnibus, steamboat, canal barge, railroad, and occasionally horseback, from the east coast to the western frontier of the then twenty-six states, and from New Orleans to Quebec."".
- catalog description ""Richard Champion Rawlins, a twenty-year-old Liverpool cotton broker, sailed to the United States in 1839 to collect his family's share of the estate of his grandfather, Richard Champion, one of whose ships and cargo had been impounded and sold during the War for Independence. He spent three months in New Orleans buying cotton with the legacy and shipping it to England, but he also made the most of a once-in-a-life-time opportunity by staying in America for almost a year to see as much of the country and its institutions as he could."".
- catalog extent "203 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "American journal, 1839-40.".
- catalog identifier "0838639291 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "American journal, 1839-40.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Press,".
- catalog relation "American journal, 1839-40.".
- catalog spatial "United States Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 1783-1865.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.5/7/092 21".
- catalog subject "British United States Diaries.".
- catalog subject "E165 .R28 2002".
- catalog subject "Rawlins, Richard Champion, 1819-1898 Diaries.".
- catalog subject "Rawlins, Richard Champion, 1819-1898 Travel United States.".
- catalog title "An American journal, 1839-40 / Richard Champion Rawlins ; edited by John L. Tearle.".
- catalog type "Diaries. fast".
- catalog type "text".