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Charles Dickens was the most famous of many travelers of his time who journeyed to America, curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank, often humorous descriptions in his 1842 account cover everything from his uncomfortable sea voyage... read more
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I shall never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the third of January eighteen-hundred-and-forty-two, I opened the door of, and put my head into, a 'state-room' on board the Britannia steam-packet, twelve hundred tons burden per register, bound for Halifax and Boston, and carrying Her Majesty's mails.
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This book is in Penguin Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Country: England
Publication Date: October 19, 1842
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Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Country: England
Publication Date: October 19, 1842
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- Dewey: 917.30458
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( D ) › Dickens, Charles
- Books › Reference › Writing › Travel
- Books › Travel › Reference & Tips › Essays & Travelogues
- Books › History › Americas › United States
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Travel › North America
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature
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