| Lost in the Antebellum Contributor(s): Morritt, Robert D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1443826855 ISBN-13: 9781443826853 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $67.27 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.9 |
| Physical Information: 215 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume is a compendium of the thoughts and works of authors, and of prose and scientific thought prior to the American Civil War. Featured are Maury the oceanographer; the author William Gilmore Simms, of whom Edgar Allen Poe remarked was the best American novelist in recent decades; the Hutchinson Family Singers whose concert tours in the USA and Britain did much to serve the cause of emancipation; the real story of Davy Crockett, the American frontiersman who died with Jim Bowie at the Alamo, which is more interesting than the old fictional accounts of his life; and Six Days in the Moon, a tale of an event that allegedly occurred in June 1844, by an Aerio-Nautical Man who has just returned from the Moon. Also featured are contemporary composers, explorers, poets and filibusters. This book is a concise view of pre-Civil War America. |