Thomas Jefferson's Travels in Europe, 1784-1789
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 20, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780801859502
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Biography: historical; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1700 to c 1800; Presidents & Heads of State; 18th And 19th Century Description And Travel; U.S. History - Revolution And Confederation (1775-1789); History; History - General History; History: American; Europe; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General; Essays & Travelogues; Earth Sciences - Geography; United States - Revolutionary War
First sentence: A WEALTHY AND OPTIMISTIC ANGLO-AMERICAN, THOMAS JEFFER-son as a young man yearned to take the European grand tour, which in the eighteenth century capped a cultivated Briton's education.