Chateaubriand's Travels in America - Paperback

by François-René de Chateaubriand (Author), Richard Switzer (Translator)

Chateaubriand's Travels in America, presented here in its first modern translation, was a reflection of the attitudes of his epoch toward the New World. And at the same time, because of his enormous literary reputation, it has continued to be a major source of European impressions about America. The America portrayed by Chateaubriand was much more a product of his reading and his imagination than of his actual visit. (His supposed itinerary included a trip up the Hudson to Albany, a visit to Nia

Author Biography

Richard Switzer is chairman of the department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin.