An Englishman's journey along America's eastern waterways
Subtitle: the 1831 illustrated journal of Herbert Holtham's travels
By: edited by Seymour I. Schwartz.
Contributors: Schwartz, Seymour I., 1928-
Publisher: Rochester Museum & Science Center and the University of Rochester Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Holtham, Herbert -- Diaries.; Holtham, Herbert -- Travel -- Northeastern States.; Holtham, Herbert -- Travel -- Canada, Eastern.; Waterways -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.; Waterways -- Canada, Eastern -- History -- 19th century.; Unitarian churches -- England -- Clergy -- Diaries.; Northeastern States -- Description and travel.; Canada, Eastern -- Description and travel.; Northeastern States -- Pictorial works.; Canada, Eastern -- Pictorial works.
Genres: Diaries.; Pictorial works.
Other titles: 1831 illustrated journal of Herbert Holtham's travels
Description: "Herbert Holtham, a Unitarian lay minister from Brighton, England, came to the United States in the spring of 1831, and spent several months traveling in the Northeast.".

"Holtham recorded his impressions of both urban and rural scenes, the people and their opinions, family life, church life and activities, and reports of many conversations he had while traveling. The journal of his travels provides a superior set of impressions of America at the time from a man who brought to the transcription his skills of perception.

Beyond the words, the journal contains thirty marvelous pencil and ink drawings of what he saw: scenes of Niagara Falls and downtown Rochester accompany paintings of the Capitol in Washington, a carriage operated by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia."--BOOK JACKET.