Like a sponge thrown into water
Francis Lieber's European travel journal of 1844-1845
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Author
Contributions
- Mack, Charles R., 1940- - Contributor
- Mack, Ilona S. 1943- - Contributor
Publication
2002 - University of South Carolina Press for the South Caroliniana Library, Columbia, South Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
48,250 words, Guess
Page Count
193 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivelikespongethrown0000lieb
- ISBN-101570034478
- ISBN-139781570034473
- Goodreads4304841
- Library of Congress Control Number2001007379
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number48515492
- Better World Books9781570034473
- Open LibraryOL3939781M
Classifications
- DDC914.04/283
- LCCE415.9.L7 L54 2002
- LCCE415.9.L7L54 2002
Description
""I live the life of a long dried sponge thrown into water," enthused the celebrated intellectual Francis Lieber (1798-1872) in a letter from Paris to his friend, the future Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner. In that letter, Lieber, a scholar well known on both sides of the Atlantic, described his joyous return to Europe in 1844 after two decades teaching and working in the United States. During his ten-month sabbatical, Lieber gloried in Europe's people, places, art, theater, and diversity. With passionate attention to detail, he not only wrote letters to his friends but also chronicled his travels in a diary. Lieber's previously unpublished account of these months, including passages translated from their original German, offers a fast-paced and exciting picture of the European culture and political milieu of the 1840s. The diary provides insights into the remarkable person who kept it."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Biography
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