商品簡介
Historians Smith and Swick reunite the two halves of Rodney's journal half was owned by the Historical Society of Delaware, and the other half by the Library of Congress for the first time. The journal tells of Rodney's journey to his new post as a territorial judge and land commissioner for the newly formed Mississippi Territory. In it, he describes everything he encountered during the three-and-a-half-month journey, including flora, fauna, geology, archaeology, the urban centers of the day, and people that he met, including Meriwether Lewis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
作者簡介
Dwight L. Smith is Professor Emeritus of History at Miami University (Ohio). He is currently investigating British naval surveillance in the Canadian Pacific Northwest coastal waters in the 1860s.
Ray Swick, the historian of the West Virginia State Park System, is based at Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park. He is the co-editor of A Journey through the West: Thomas Rodney's 1803 Journal from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory.
