{"product_id":"a-tour-in-switzerland-or-a-view-of-the-present-state-of-the-governments-and-manners-of-those-cantons-with-comparative-sketches-of-the-present-state-of-paris-paperback-9781108065443","title":"A Tour in Switzerland; Or, a View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108065443","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Tour in Switzerland\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOr, a View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished in 1798, a two-volume political travelogue by the radical writer and poet Helen Maria Williams (1759–1827).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHelen Maria Williams (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108065443, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 October 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e366 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe radical writer and poet Helen Maria Williams (1759–1827) is best remembered for her eight-volume Letters from France (1790–6), charting the progress of the French Revolution. Having published poetry and a novel, Julia (1790), she travelled to France, where her salon welcomed the likes of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine and leading Girondists. Forced to flee the country in 1794, she went into exile in Switzerland for six months, travelling with the printer and political reformer John Hurford Stone (1763–1818). This two-volume account of the journeys she made during her time there, first published in 1798, documents what she sees as the failure of Swiss democracy. Highlighting the shortcomings of the Swiss government and the suffering of much of Swiss society through exploitation, Williams anticipates revolutionary activity in the cantons. In Volume 2, she describes her excursion in the Alps, presenting also observations on Zurich, Fribourg and Berne.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e22[a]. Ascent to the glaciers\u003cbr\u003e 23. Source of the Rhone\u003cbr\u003e 24. Coire\u003cbr\u003e 25. Grison mode of negociating\u003cbr\u003e 26. Baths of Pffyffer\u003cbr\u003e 27. Glaris\u003cbr\u003e 28. Lake of Zurich\u003cbr\u003e 29. Return to Lucerne\u003cbr\u003e 30. Tell's chapel\u003cbr\u003e 31. Cabinets of natural history in Switzerland\u003cbr\u003e 32. Autumnal views on the Jura\u003cbr\u003e 33. Excursions round Neufchatel\u003cbr\u003e 34. Vevay\u003cbr\u003e 35. Fribourg\u003cbr\u003e 36. Arrival at Berne\u003cbr\u003e 37. Reclamations of the Pays de Vaud\u003cbr\u003e 38. State of the peasantry and manufactures in the canton of Berne\u003cbr\u003e 39. Trial of the members of the festival\u003cbr\u003e 40. Discontents of the popular party\u003cbr\u003e Appendix.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266150682904,"sku":"9781108065443","price":31.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108065443i_00bf4a6d-d387-4856-bcc7-c99b64ab9b6e.jpg?v=1696748572","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-tour-in-switzerland-or-a-view-of-the-present-state-of-the-governments-and-manners-of-those-cantons-with-comparative-sketches-of-the-present-state-of-paris-paperback-9781108065443","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}