Travels in North America, in the Years 1827 and 1828

A detailed account of Captain Basil Hall's travels in North America between 1827 and 1828, first published in 1829.

Basil Hall (Author)

9781108032858, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 September 2011

448 pages
21.6 x 2.5 x 14 cm, 0.57 kg

Captain Basil Hall (1788–1844) was a Scottish seaman and travel writer. After attending the Royal High School in Edinburgh he joined the Navy in 1802, and was appointed captain in 1814. He served on many diplomatic and scientific naval missions, and on his retirement from the Navy began to publish accounts of his experiences, based on his journals. These volumes, first published in 1829, contain his detailed and controversial account of his journey across America and Canada between 1827 and 1828. Hall provides a fascinating and engaging description of social conditions, political structures and political tensions in Canada and America in the period, while also illustrating contemporary English prejudices concerning American society. Volume 3 contains his description of Washington D.C. and his journeys through South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Alabama and along the Mississippi river. Hall also includes an analysis of slavery and cotton farming in the southern states.

1. Washington
2. Sale of a slave
3. Debate in Congress on a picture
4. The Potomac
5. On the theory and practice of military punishments
6. The dismal swamp
7. Charleston
8. Journey from Charleston
9. American Veturino
10. Commencement of the journey through the state of Georgia
11. Passage of the Yam Grandy
12. Distress of the Creek Indians
13. Montgomery on the Alabama
14. Trip to the mouths of the Mississippi
15. Wooding stations on the Mississippi
16. Louisville in Kentucky
17. Conversation with an American respecting the points of comparison between his country and England.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]