Pillar to Post: Odysseys in Revolutionary America

Pillar to Post: Odysseys in Revolutionary America

by Samuel Willard Crompton (Editor)
Pillar to Post: Odysseys in Revolutionary America

Pillar to Post: Odysseys in Revolutionary America

by Samuel Willard Crompton (Editor)

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Overview

Two British travelers paint us a magnificent true portrait of Revolutionary America in Pillar to Post. In their journals, we see the good, bad and the ugly of Americans from Maine to Georgia and Virginia to Ohio.

Horatio Hornblower and Charles Dickens unite in spirit to describe Revolutionary America. Indian wives and deceitful post riders create a dramatic picture of America between the Boston Tea Party and the Saratoga campaign. Reads like a PBS drama!

Loss, death and destruction take their places alongside hope, courage and possibility. Between them, Hugh Finlay and Nicholas Cresswell may reshape our view of the American Revolution.

Postal riders gallop, colonial governors fret, British generals march and Indians orators dance across the stage created for us by these two men and their pens.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780595121052
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date: 09/01/2000
Pages: 376
Product dimensions: 6.07(w) x 9.03(h) x 0.92(d)

Table of Contents

Forewordix
Introductionxv
Journal of Hugh Finlay1
Journal of Nicholas Cresswell87
Chapter 1Taking Leave89
Chapter 2The Sea97
Chapter 3Strange Welcome102
Chapter 4Act the Hypocrite115
Chapter 5A New Year124
Chapter 6Westward132
Chapter 7The Beautiful River139
Chapter 8Guns and Elephants151
Chapter 9Fort Pitt164
Chapter 10Indian Wives172
Chapter 11Shaganaba181
Chapter 12The Event is Uncertain190
Chapter 13Common Sense200
Chapter 14Among the Sleber212
Chapter 15Times that Try the Soul222
Chapter 16Dreams of Home239
Chapter 17Escape255
Chapter 18Den of Iniquity263
Chapter 19Topsy-Turvy283
Chapter 20Nothing Remains the Same296
Afterword303
Timeline307
Appendix A325
Appendix B327
Appendix C329
Appendix D339
Appendix E341
Appendix F343
Appendix G345
Select Bibliography347
About the Author353
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