Download or read book Life and Liberty in America Sketches, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Charles Mackay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Liberty in America Sketches, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada, in 1857-8 In pursuance of a long-cherished desire the author of the following pages left London in October, 1857, for a tour in the United States and Canada. He traversed the Union from Boston to New Orleans, by St. Louis and the Mississippi, and returned to New York by land, through the Slave States. He afterwards visited Canada; and published, from time to time, in the Illustrated London News, a few of the results of his observations, under the title of "Transatlantic Sketches." These sketches, after having received careful revision, have been included in the present work, and form about one third of its bulk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.