Lost in the Antebellum

Robert D. Morritt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

195 Seiten

2017 | 2nd Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-7972-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume is a compendium of the thoughts and works of authors, and of prose and scientific thought prior to the American Civil War.Featured are Maury the oceanographer; the author William Gilmore Simms, of whom Edgar Allen Poe remarked was the best American novelist in recent decades; the Hutchinson Family Singers whose concert tours in the USA and Britain did much to serve the cause of emancipation; the “real” story of Davy Crockett, the American frontiersman who died with Jim Bowie at the Alamo, which is more interesting than the old fictional accounts of his life; and “Six Days in the Moon,” a tale of an event that allegedly occurred in June 1844, by “an Aerio-Nautical Man” who has just returned from the Moon. Also featured are contemporary composers, explorers, poets and filibusters.As such, this book offers a concise view of pre-Civil War America.

Autor

Robert D. Morritt studied Prehistory and Early Agriculture at the University of Manchester, UK, and Communications at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is a historian and a musicologist, and has travelled extensively in the American South and in Appalachia and the Southwestern states.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.07.2017
• Verlagsort: Newcastle upon Tyne
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 148 x 212 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-4438-7972-X / 144387972X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-7972-9 / 9781443879729
• Zustand: Neuware