A Diary in America, with Remarks on Its Institutions

by Capt Marryat, Frederick

$250 · Offered by Back Creek Books

First edition

Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1839. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimos. 242 and 228 pages. Frederick Marryat was a British naval officer and pioneering nautical fiction writer. He traveled to America in 1836-1837, and this is the first American edition of his account of that visit. It is an interesting outside view, but his criticisms of American culture and society

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