Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, 1784-1789
edited by Anthony Brandt

Thomas Jefferson has inspired countless books that explore his brilliant career, his political philosophy, and his extraordinary accomplishments as an inspired and inspiring leader. Endlessly inquisitive, he was both a tireless writer and one of the most cosmopolitan men of his age. Yet there has never before been a collection of his reflections on his wide-ranging travels--until now.

Drawing on our third president's journals, personal correspondence, and other writing, this remarkable book uses Jefferson's own words to open a unique window on the man himself and the world in which he played so important a part. From his views on his native Virginia to his extensive tours of New England, he shows us America as it was in our earliest years as a nation. He records his extensive, sophisticated impressions of Europe, formed during a five-year sojourn in France, which included visits to northern Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and England. His correspondence with Lewis and Clark reveals not just a seasoned traveler's wisdom and a bottomless curiosity about the American wilderness, but his passionate explorer's wish that he could actually join their Corps of Discovery.

Arranged in chronological order, Jefferson's words are linked, clarified, and amplified by editor Anthony Brandt's commentary, which provides historic and cultural context to fill in the background of this panoramic vision by a passionate explorer of penetrating intelligence, whose far-sighted, restless imagination launched us on a national journey westward to the Pacific and destiny.

ZB4864    Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, 1784     $15.95

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