American Scenery : Or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature

Name: American Scenery
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108003049
Price: 6750 KES
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ISBN: 9781108003049

by Nathaniel Parker Willis

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Library Collection - North American History

ISBN-10 1108003044

ISBN-13 9781108003049

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 20th, 2009

Print length 288 Pages

Weight 758 grams

Dimensions 29.70 x 20.90 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: History of the Americas History of the Americas

KSh 6,750.00

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Each of the 119 landscape engravings in this two-volume book is accompanied by a short essay. The authors' intention is to bring to the reader at home the sensations of travel which 'those whose lot is domestic and retired' would never be in a position to experience for themselves.

Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–67) came from a publishing family and began his writing career with contributions to magazines. He also wrote poetry and plays but is best remembered as a travel writer. In this two-volume work of 1840, his contribution (described on the title page as 'the literary department') was to provide a narrative for prints from the engravings of William Henry Bartlett (1809–54), the famous British landscape artist, who followed already established tourist routes in the United States to make his drawings. Each of Bartlett's 119 engravings is accompanied by a short essay by Willis, who states in the preface that it is his intention to bring to the reader at home 'at small cost' the sensations of travel which 'those whose lot is domestic and retired' would never be in a position to experience for themselves. This extremely popular work remained in print for thirty years.

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