Mrs. Adams in Winter : A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon

English

ISBN: 0374215812

EAN: 9780374215811

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Women/Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State/Transportation / General/Travel / Europe / General/History / Europe / General/Travel / Europe / Germany/Travel / Europe / France/Travel / Former Soviet Republics/Travel / Russia/

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Release Date: 03/31/2010

Synopsis: The prize-winning historian OBrien reconstructs Louisa Adamss extraordinary passage through Europe in 1815, providing both an evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and a moving portrait of her difficult marriage to John Quincy Adams.

Awards: Pulitzer Prize – null 

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Mrs. Adams in Winter : A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.32 inches

Width: 6.69 inches

Length: 9.29 inches

Weight: 20.53 oz

Pages: 384