Travels in Revolutionary France and a Journey Across America

George Cadogan Morgan and Richard Price Morgan

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2012
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-0-7083-2558-2 (ISBN)

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Two gripping travel narratives from a turbulent historical period: the father a witness to the outbreak of the French Revolution; the son, two decades later, an adventurous pioneer in the American far west.

In July 1789 George Cadogan Morgan, born in Bridgend, Wales, and the nephew of the celebrated radical dissenter Richard Price (1723-91), found himself caught up in the opening events of the French Revolution and its consequences. In 1808, his family left Britain for America where his son, Richard Price Morgan, travelled extensively, made a descent of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers by raft and helped build some of the early American railroads. The adventures of both men are related here via letters George sent home to his family from France and through the autobiography written by his son in America.

Mary-Ann Constantine is a Senior Research Fellow and Project Leader for Wales and the French Revolution at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. Paul Frame is a self-employed geological consultant and researcher in Enlightenment and Welsh Enlightenment history. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth.

Introduction Letters from France, summer 1789 George Cadogan Morgan, Address to the Jacobine Societies of France (1792) Introduction Address to the Jacobin Societies of France Richard Price Morgan, A Journey Across America Introduction Autobiography of Richard Price Morgan, Senior

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2012
Reihe/Serie	Wales and the French Revolution
Mitarbeit	Anpassung von: Mary-Ann Constantine, Paul Frame
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Verlagsort	Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7083-2558-0 / 0708325580
ISBN-13	978-0-7083-2558-2 / 9780708325582
Zustand	Neuware