Helen Maria Williams

A Tour in Switzerland

Or, a View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of Those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Pres

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The radical writer and poet Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) is best remembered for her eight-volume Letters from France (1790-6). First published in 1798, this two-volume political travelogue covers the journeys she made in Switzerland with John Hurford Stone following her flight from France in 1794.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781108065948
• ISBN-10: 1108065945
• Artikelnr.: 39711368

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Comparative view of the spirit of commerce
3. Amusements of Paris
4. Road from Basil into the canton of Soleure
5. Lavater
6. Country from Basil to Zuric
7. Canton of Basil
8. Government of the canton of Basil
9. Curiosities of Basil
10. Lucerne
11. Altorf
12. Top of St Gothard
13. Valley of Levantine
14. Government of the Levantine valley
15. Government of the canton of Uri
16. Giornico
17. Installation of the bailiff of Lugano
18. A storm on the lake
19. History of an emigrant family
20. Visit to the Grisons
21. Val Calenca state of society
22. St Bernadin.