Hesse-Wartegg, Ernst Von: Travels on the Lower Mississippi, 1879-1880

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Hesse-Wartegg, Ernst Von : Travels on the Lower Mississippi, 1879-1880

Univ. Of Missouri Press, Columbia, 1990

ISBN 082620709X

261pp. Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (1854-1918) was an Austro-German aristocrat well known for his travel writings. During the crucial time between Reconstruction and the rise of the New South, he followed the Mississippi from St. Louis to the Gulf and witnessed the agonized transformation of that region. The result was Mississippi Fahrten published in 1881, the first full-length treatment of the lower Mississippi and still one of the most informative and interesting. This is the first English translation of that work, 8vo, Fine in Fine DJ

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