Thomas Jefferson`s Travels in Europe, 1784-1789 [ang.]

Autor: Shackelford, George Green.

During his time as minister to the court of Louis XVI, from 1784 to 1789, Thomas Jefferson became not only a friend of France but also the champion of European culture in the United States. Because the man who was to become America`s third president learned so much from his five years abroad -- about the fine arts of architecture and painting and about the practical arts of agriculture, bureaucracy, and commerce -- his stay in Europe remains one of the most important of any American before or

since. Illustrated with more than sixty images of the actual places the future president visited and described -- including both contemporary works and new photographs -- Jefferson`s Travels in Europe is the first book to describe and explore the significance of Jefferson`s European journey, detailing the sights he visited, the people he met, and the events he attended. Based on extensive research into Jefferson`s account books and correspondence, as well as the experiences of other travelers of the day, George Green Shackelford connects Jefferson`s journeys in France, England, Italy, the Netherlands, and the German Rhineland to his intellectual and aesthetic development. Coaxing meaning out of Jefferson`s account books and correspondence, and the parallel experiences of other travelers of the day, Shackelford has created a unique document, one that bears "a general resemblance to the book that Thomas Jefferson never wrote, his Notes on Europe".

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