Mrs. Adams in Winter

Mrs. Adams in Winter
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Publisher : Picador
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ISBN-10 : 0312681143
ISBN-13 : 9780312681142
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Book Synopsis Mrs. Adams in Winter by : Michael O'Brien

Download or read book Mrs. Adams in Winter written by Michael O'Brien and published by Picador. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of Eastern Europe, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleon's return from Elba. The prize-winning historian Michael O'Brien reconstructs for the first time Louisa Adams's extraordinary passage. An evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings, Mrs. Adams in Winter offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.


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