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Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (1854-1918) may have journeyed farther and written more than any other travel memoirist. He circled the globe four times, roamed in six continents, and recounted his experiences in more than forty books and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. This Austro-German aristocrat came to Norther America with insatiable wanderlust, traveling in nearly every state and territory of the United States, as well as Mexico and Canada. During the crucial time between Reconstruction and the rise of the New South, Hesse-Wartegg followed the Mississippi from St. Louis to the Gulf and witnessed the agonized transformation of that region. The results was MISSISSIPPI FAHRTEN (1881), the first full-length treatment of the lower Mississippi and still one of the most informative and interesting. In the first English translation of that, TRAVELS ON THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI, Frederic Trautmann re-creates the lively prose style and captivating description that made Hesse-Wartegg such a success – and led Mark Twain to use the original edition as a source for his LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Like Alexis de Tocqueville before him, Hesse-Wartegg brought the incisive perspective of a foreigner to a key period in American history.
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Travels on the lower Mississippi, 1879-1880, Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg
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