Crèvecoeur's Eighteenth-Century Travels in Pennsylvania and New York - Paperback

by Percy G. Adams (Editor)

Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecouer, long regarded as a chief figure in American letters of the Revolutionary period, is remembered as the author of Letters from an American Farmer and the posthumous Sketches of Eighteenth Century of America, but his last and most ambitious work has been almost entirely neglected. Published in France as Le Voyage dans la haute Pensylvanie et dans d'état de New York, Crèvecouer's last book was never popular and has not heretofore appeared in English. Yet the V

Author Biography

Percy G. Adams, who has translated and edited these selections from Crèvecouer's Voyage, is a member of the department of English in the University of Tennessee.