"In 1815, just as Napoleon was returning from Elba to renewed warfare, John Quincy Adams's wife, Louisa, traveled by coach from Russia to Paris to join her husband--an arduous, perilous trip. O'Brien uses her story as a framework for excursions in history, geography, and biography."
"Chronicles a trip made by Louisa Catherine Adams with her young son from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Paris, France, to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, providing a portrait of the state in which Napoleon's wars had left the European landscape."
"Chronicles a trip made by Louisa Catherine Adams with her young son from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Paris, France, to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, providing a portrait of the state in which Napoleon's wars had left the European landscape."@en
"Bancroft Prize-winning historian Michael O'Brien presents the first full account of a dramatic journey by the wife of a future American president."
"Bancroft Prize-winning historian Michael O'Brien presents the first full account of a dramatic journey by the wife of a future American president."@en