Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America,9780140390063

Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780140390063
ISBN10: 0140390065
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1981-12-17
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

A French soldier depicts farm life in the American colonies and many of their problems

Table of Contents

Introduction 7(20)
Albert E. Stone
Suggestions for Further Reading 27(2)
A Note on the Text 29(6)
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER
Advertisements
35(2)
To the Abbe Raynal, F.R.S.
37(2)
Introduction
39(12)
On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer
51(15)
What Is an American?
66(40)
Description of the Island of Nantucket, with the Manners, Customs, Policy, and Trade of the Inhabitants
106(21)
Customary Education and Employment of the Inhabitants of Nantucket
127(5)
Description of the Island of Martha's Vineyard and of the Whale Fishery
132(12)
Manners and Customs at Nantucket
144(11)
Peculiar Customs at Nantucket
155(11)
Description of Charles Town; Thoughts on Slavery; On Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene
166(14)
On Snakes; And on the Humming-bird
180(7)
From Mr. Iw--n Al--z, a Russian Gentleman, Describing the Visit He Paid at My Request to Mr. John Bertram, the Celebrated Pennsylvanian Botanist
187(13)
Distresses of a Frontier Man
200(31)
SKETCHES OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
A Snow-storm as It Affects the American Farmer
231(10)
Ant-hill Town
241(9)
Reflections on the Manners of the American
250(14)
Thoughts of an American Farmer on Various Rural Subjects
264(57)
Liberty of Worship
321(16)
The English and the French Before the Revolution
337(5)
The Man of Sorrows
342(11)
On the Susquehanna; The Wyoming Massacre
353(28)
History of Mrs. B.
381(11)
The Frontier Woman
392(5)
The American Belisarius
397(17)
Landscapes
414(67)
Index 481

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