North America — Volume 2
by Anthony Trollope
26 Nov, 2019
A 1951 review in the New York Herald Tribune pronounced this 1862 travel memoir "superb . . . Its effect today is that of an extraordinary newsreel of civilian life in 1861-62, vivid in its photography, literate in its running commentary, as fair
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A 1951 review in the New York Herald Tribune pronounced this 1862 travel memoir "superb . . . Its effect today is that of an extraordinary newsreel of civilian life in 1861-62, vivid in its photography, literate in its running commentary, as fair as an honest, open-minded man could make it." Trollope recounts his adventures in Boston, Cambridge, Lowell, Washington, and more—along the way he learns about Congress, women’s rights, abolition, education, and religion in America. Less