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- 2009025437 abstract "Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a Russian carriage and set out to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing Napoleon's return from Elba. Along the way, she learned what Napoleon's wars had done to Europe, what her old friends in the royal court in Berlin had experienced during the French occupation, how it felt to have her life threatened by reckless soldiers, and how to manage fear. Historian Michael O'Brien reconstructs for the first time that extraordinary passage. This evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.--From publisher description. The prize-winning historian O'Brien reconstructs Louisa Adams's extraordinary passage through Europe in 1815, providing both an evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and a moving portrait of her difficult marriage to John Quincy Adams.".
- 2009025437 contributor B11423369.
- 2009025437 coverage "Baltic States Description and travel.".
- 2009025437 coverage "Europe Description and travel.".
- 2009025437 coverage "Europe History 1789-1815.".
- 2009025437 coverage "France Description and travel.".
- 2009025437 coverage "Germany Description and travel.".
- 2009025437 coverage "Russia Description and travel.".
- 2009025437 created "2010.".
- 2009025437 date "2010".
- 2009025437 date "2010.".
- 2009025437 dateCopyrighted "2010.".
- 2009025437 description "Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a Russian carriage and set out to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing Napoleon's return from Elba. Along the way, she learned what Napoleon's wars had done to Europe, what her old friends in the royal court in Berlin had experienced during the French occupation, how it felt to have her life threatened by reckless soldiers, and how to manage fear. Historian Michael O'Brien reconstructs for the first time that extraordinary passage. This evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.--From publisher description.".
- 2009025437 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-349) and index.".
- 2009025437 description "Saint Petersburg -- From Saint Petersburg to Riga -- From Riga to Berlin -- From Berlin to Eisenach -- From Eisenach to Frankfurt -- From Frankfurt to Paris -- Appendix: Places.".
- 2009025437 description "The prize-winning historian O'Brien reconstructs Louisa Adams's extraordinary passage through Europe in 1815, providing both an evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and a moving portrait of her difficult marriage to John Quincy Adams.".
- 2009025437 extent "xvi, 364 p. :".
- 2009025437 identifier "0374215812 (hc.) :".
- 2009025437 identifier "9780374215811 (hc.) :".
- 2009025437 issued "2010".
- 2009025437 issued "2010.".
- 2009025437 language "eng".
- 2009025437 publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,".
- 2009025437 spatial "Baltic States Description and travel.".
- 2009025437 spatial "Europe Description and travel.".
- 2009025437 spatial "Europe History 1789-1815.".
- 2009025437 spatial "Europe".
- 2009025437 spatial "France Description and travel.".
- 2009025437 spatial "Germany Description and travel.".
- 2009025437 spatial "Russia Description and travel.".
- 2009025437 subject "940.2/7092 B 22".
- 2009025437 subject "Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 Family.".
- 2009025437 subject "Adams, Louisa Catherine, 1775-1852 Travel Europe.".
- 2009025437 subject "Coaching (Transportation) Europe History 19th century.".
- 2009025437 subject "D919 .O27 2010".
- 2009025437 tableOfContents "Saint Petersburg -- From Saint Petersburg to Riga -- From Riga to Berlin -- From Berlin to Eisenach -- From Eisenach to Frankfurt -- From Frankfurt to Paris -- Appendix: Places.".
- 2009025437 title "Mrs. Adams in winter : a journey in the last days of Napoleon / Michael O'Brien.".
- 2009025437 type "text".