Framed as a series of daily instructions from a parent to his children, this book stitches together the accounts of travellers to describe North America. It moves through the cities and frontiers of the United States, the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, Canada and Mexico, with anecdotes of adventure, native peoples, natural wonders and the customs of settlers.
A revealing early nineteenth-century picture of how British young people were taught about the New World. Download the free EPUB.