Two Boston Brahmins in Goethe’s Germany

Two Boston Brahmins in Goethe’s Germany

Two Boston Brahmins in Goethe’s Germany

Thomas Adam

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2009
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Historia de América
ISBN:
9780739129128
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This volume presents the travel journals of George and Anna Ticknor, a prominent American couple, from their German tours in the first third of the nineteenth century. The parallel yet independent writing of these travel journals by husband and wife give these journals a unique character.

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