Bücher der Reihe Excursion through the Slave States, from Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico 2 Volume Set

In 1834-5 the English geologist George William Featherstonhaugh (1780-1866) travelled from the East Coast of the US to the Arkansas territory. Published in 1844, this two-volume travelogue vividly records the landscape, natural history and society of the southern slave states. Volume 1 covers Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri.