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American Notes

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So wrote an exuberant Dickens shortly before his voyage to America in 1842. He was the most famous of many travellers of his time who journeyed to the New World, curious to find out about the revolutionary new civilization which had captured the English imagination. His frank, often humorous descriptions cover everything from his comically uncomfortable sea voyage to his w...more

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Sep 03, 2011 Elena Santangelo rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: History buffs, fans of Dickens, Writers

I'm going to start by saying I don't recommend this book for anyone who has to read is for a school course. Books like this should never be read under duress. Also, if you read this book, I recommend saving the introductory matter for last and beginning with Dickens' narrative.

Although he was a bestselling and well-known author at the time of his trip to America, Dickens had only published a handful of works and was only 29 at the time he embarked. He'd just lost his job as a journalist in 1839,...more I'm going to start by saying I don't recommend this book for anyone who has to read is for a school course. Books like this should never be read under duress. Also, if you read this book, I recommend saving the introductory matter for last and beginning with Dickens' narrative.

Although he was a bestselling and well-known author at the time of his trip to America, Dickens had only published a handful of works and was only 29 at the time he embarked. He'd just lost his job as a journalist in 1839, so he probably didn't see himself solely as a writer of fiction in January 1842. I suspect, in visiting prisons, mental institutions, Congress, and making observations not only about slavery, but regarding Temperance, various religions and society, his idea was not only to write a travelogue, but to bring home materials for many other articles about America as well, to be sold to whatever periodicals would pay. I'm glad this wasn't a simple travelogue, because history would have lost out on a beautifully detailed view of the early American Republic.

I found the most amazing parts of American Notes to be Dickens' depictions of traveling itself. Between crossing the North Atlantic in the middle of winter 50 years before the Titantic, stagecoaches constantly mired in mud, and the early days of steamboating, when the contraptions were more likely to explode than not, it's a wonder he survived the journey. The world might never have seen A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, or any of his other later works.

I loved his humor in American Notes. His unabridged short stories have that kind of humor, but most, even A Christmas Carol, have had the humor edited out over the years. American Notes very much reminded me of Mark Twain's travel books. Twain almost certainly read Dickens and was influenced by him.

But, of course, the best of American Notes is Dickens' writing--his descriptions, his characterizations, the way he puts words together. And also the insight we get into Charles Dickens, the person.(less)

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Sep 16, 2008 Katie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Curious folk

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Amazing, and screamingly funny sometimes, especially the part about hogs touring Broadway, and tobacco chewing in Washington, D.C. Very touching, too. His portrait of the enlightened Perkins Institute for the Blind is fascinating, especially the part about Laura Bridgman, one of the first deaf-blind students, who was about 13 at the time he visited. He contrasts this with the institutions for paupers in New York, which were at least as squalid and cruel as those in England. His exposure of the i...more

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Mar 14, 2013 JS Found rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It is a universal truth that the more things change, the more they stay the same.( It is also a universal truth that we speak and write in cliches.) The traveler's view of America, written in 1842 has many uncomfortable truths to say to us in the America of 2013. That this traveler was Charles Dickens, already a critic of his country's poverty laws, government institutions, and the darker aspects of its culture, means that the US was about to face a reckoning--a literary one eighteen years befor...more It is a universal truth that the more things change, the more they stay the same.( It is also a universal truth that we speak and write in cliches.) The traveler's view of America, written in 1842 has many uncomfortable truths to say to us in the America of 2013. That this traveler was Charles Dickens, already a critic of his country's poverty laws, government institutions, and the darker aspects of its culture, means that the US was about to face a reckoning--a literary one eighteen years before the real one. Dickens is well aware of the problem that that apocalyptic bloodletting will address. He writes almost all of the book as an account by train, carriage and ship through Eastern and Midwest America, in chronological order, and then he changes the structure and has a chapter called "Slavery." His feelings are not equivocal and he makes no attempt to hide them. When the comic travails of his journeys pass, he has some sober and harsh words for the country he saw.

In short, he laments slavery, the obsession with business, the dearth of imagination and playfulness, the terrible press, the trade, and the psychological American condition of distrusting everything. Who will read these concluding remarks and not think of our own problems now? We in our era have: racism, the obsession with business, the dearth of the creative in generating new ideas, the terrible press, the exports from China, and still, like an immortal weed, the American condition of distrusting everything--so much so that about 60% of eligible voters voted in the last election. And then we wonder why our government is so bad. Dickens actually talks about this. He speaks about the erosion of American public office from these corrosive influences.

And because he is Dickens, he has to visit the prisons and the mental wards of this country. Being a international best-selling author, he is allowed access, and boy, does he use his influence and prodigious verbal gifts to describe them. There is the justly famous, sympathetic and empathetic account of the horrors of solitary confinement. The Americans don't seem to put themselves in each others shoes, so they can't imagine they are doing a terrible thing to their fellow men. There is the opposite and bright story of Laura Bridgman, a blind and deaf girl who manages to learn and navigate the horrors of her darkness as Helen Keller did. There is a visit to the Lowell factories, that social experiment Dickens approves of. There are comical tales of the city featuring itinerant pigs. He does his best to record the essence of the country he sees--the good and the bad--and not to be diplomatic or use false words in that description, but to be honest, direct, moral, and true. In this time of national criticism being equated with and dismissed as national hate, this book is an important reminder that the highest form of patriotism is in fact looking with clear eyes at your country's flaws, writing down what you see so that you can begin to change them.

One person has identity, character and personality. A country is after all a group of millions of people and in the collective, a country, like the individual, has identity, character and personality. As with a man, a country can admit mistakes, learn from them, and grow. The sad truth of this book being read today is that America is in a state of arrested development and has been for a time.(less)

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Oct 19, 2012 John Harder rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In American Notes for General Circulation, Charles Dickens travels the northeastern seaboard, the Midwest and Canada. Dickens was interested in American institutions and apparently the most interesting item a city might possess is a prison and an insane asylum. I am not sure why this would be the case. Perhaps since America was still young and our cultural development was still in its infancy the most notable public building housed the criminal and crazy.

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Jul 29, 2012 Mary rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Dickens did not like America on his initial visit in the early 1840s. He describes his disgust at seeing herds of pigs roaming the streets of New York, expresses doubts about the climate of Washington, D.C., decries the national habit of spitting tobacco, and insists that he condemns American politics and the American press in order to make "the Truth" generally known. His denunciation of (almost) all things American was re-imagined in his novel, Martin Chuzzlewit, in which he sends his main cha...more

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Oct 14, 2012 Ian rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"I had been meaning to read this for years. A diary of Dickens visit to the North East US and what is now Canada in 1842. Over the years I have read two other books which involve US road trips, Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck (traveling in 1960) and American Journey by Alistair Cook (travelling during WWII). All three are interesting but of the three I think the book that made the biggest impact and surprised me most was the Steinbeck book, the most recent but a very different place - it...more

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Sep 20, 2011 David Rackowitz rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: History Buffs

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A really interesting book written by Charles Dickens about his visit to the U.S. in the late 1840's early 1850's. An outsider's view of the good and the bad about the U.S. a few years before the beginning of the Great Civil War. Many surprising facts. Dickens had especially strong views about slavery in America.

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Jul 18, 2012 Christa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved reading Dickens' views of his trip to America. As with anything in life, if you have too high expectations then things are going to be disappointing. For Dickens this was the case. He was so looking forward to his trip that it was doomed to be less than stellar from the beginning. I think that he rallied well and was able to give a good fair view of America. Now I know this wasn't the thought of Americans reading this book when it first came out. Looking at it from almost 150 years later...more I loved reading Dickens' views of his trip to America. As with anything in life, if you have too high expectations then things are going to be disappointing. For Dickens this was the case. He was so looking forward to his trip that it was doomed to be less than stellar from the beginning. I think that he rallied well and was able to give a good fair view of America. Now I know this wasn't the thought of Americans reading this book when it first came out. Looking at it from almost 150 years later, I thought what he had to write was historically interesting. Some of the critical points he made about American life in general (specifically Politics/Politicians, the Press, and the American Viewpoint) are still valid today. Actually it was quite spooky how current some of his criticisms still are.

His accounts of the prisons, hospitals, factories/workhouses, and schools were interesting. In particular I found his account of his visit to the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston especially fascinating. He told of the account of meeting Laura Bridgman, one of the first Deaf-Blind students to be educated. It was a result of reading his account that Helen Keller's contacted the school to help Helen.

His humor and wit can be seen throughout the book and it is often very subtle. I enjoyed reading passages where he talks about one of his pet peeves: his aversion to spitting tobacco and his abhorrence of finding it so prevalent in American society. Ever the great character writer, he takes some of the different broad types of people he met on his travels and brings them to life in some great dialogue pieces which kept me entertained.

At the end of his travelogue, almost as if he couldn't hold himself back anymore, he really speaks out against his great hatred for Slavery and what he experienced in his time in the South. He really takes the American Christian society to task for their seeming disregard of the evils of slavery and for not stopping something he thinks (and really anyone with common sense would think too) is atrocious.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am off to read Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit where Dickens sends the main character to America. I've heard rumor that more of his bias against America is in this book than was dared allowed in American Notes. We shall see. (less)

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Apr 25, 2013 Kristin rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I love Dickens, I love reading, and I love America. Naturally, I thought I would love reading about Dickens's travels through that great country. But in reality, it was quite a slog.

I finished this small book feeling completely deflated...what a wasted opportunity! One of the greatest social observers of the 19th century puts pen to paper about one of the most interesting periods in US history and comes up with...well, not a whole lot.

Perhaps my expectations were too high. It's true that I was...more

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Feb 18, 2013 Joel rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I can see why Dickens' American travelogue somewhat lessened his popularity in the US for a while. He does have nice things to say about individual Americans; he offers a fairly even-handed critique of various prisons, madhouses, hospitals, etc.; and he delivers a much-deserved diatribe against slavery. However, he portrays the average American as a suspicious, taciturn, tobacco-chewing rube who cares only for trade/profit and who is manipulated by any vicious slander the malevolent all-powerful...more

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Jan 17, 2013 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It has some consistency problems but the observations are still very relevant. Dickens worried about American violence, distrust of politicians, uncivil political discourse, boom and bust financial schemes, devotion to money making over ethics... Sound familiar? which is both depressing and as well as comforting. We've been slogging along with these boat anchors around our neck for a long time and we still seem to make substantial forward progress. His observation of small details is delightful....more

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Jan 02, 2013 Jane rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: classic, memoir

Get this as an ebook so you can search for what interests you most--Dickens's descriptions of Congress? Niagara Falls? Prisons? Institutes for the blind? Trains? Ferries? New York? Columbus? The Mississippi? Slavery? The Shakers? I did read it cover to cover as I slowly make my way through all of Dickens's works but it struck me that everyone might benefit from a dose of seeing how something they are familiar with was described 160 years ago by a celebrity of the times who made it his business t...more

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Mar 24, 2013 Breanne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: enjoyable-reads, must-read-again

This was a very intersting book to read. I have always loved Charles Dickens. There are so many thoughts going through my head about this book, I do not know where to begin. This was a very interesting read, as I previously stated, in the sense that he brings to light America in a very different mannor than what history books portray. This is a book about a trip he made to America from November 1842-June 1843. In a broad sense he compares and contrasts England to America. Overall he is impressed...more

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Mar 03, 2012 Peter Steele rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: put-by-unfinished

I read this book perhaps 30 - 35 years ago but only got as far as his travels to Washington. For a number of reasons I ran out of gas at tat point. It seemed to me that the themes and the issues that he had dealt with (slavery, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, public welfare had been well dealt with and that his points had been made. As the book progressed, the humor that appeared in the beginning chapters, faded to a general criticism of the unsanitary boorishness of Americans and the uncleanlin...more

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Jul 04, 2012 Craig Kapitan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This months-long travelogue wasn't initially intended for an American audience, but the America of 170 years ago was so vastly different than what it is today that it doesn't at all feel as redundant as reading a Lonely Planet or Frommer's guide for your own hometown. There are some genuinely interesting parts to this book--such as the description of a pre-Mall Washington, D.C., as it was still being built. And some borderline hilarious moments as well, such as his disgust with the amount of tob...more

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Dec 02, 2012 Ray Campbell rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2012

This is a travelogue recorded on a trip Dickens took to the United States. Interestingly, after a lighthearted and exaggerated story of the adventure of crossing, the visit focuses on hospitals, homes for deaf, blind and finally, prisons. This seemed like he was traveling as a journalist writing for serialized publication - which he may have been. Never the less, he describes where he stays and the people he meets which is delightful. The last quarter of the book is less focused as he travels we...more

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Dec 16, 2011 Bob rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Christopher Hitchens' introduction gives the game away: "Is it possible that Charles Dickens was the first visitor to be simply bored by the United States?...Could any prose be more lifeless?" but there are unforgettable moments in the book. His moving description of the Perkins School for the Blind, (the reading of which led Helen Keller's mother to obtain Anne Sullivan's services) contains this interesting observation: "It is strange to watch the faces of the blind, and see how free they are...more

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Nov 04, 2011 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: cultural-studies, gettin-outta-dodge, nonfiction, the-victorians

In this book, we see nineteenth-century Washington congressmen hocking tobacco-juice loogies all over the Congressional carpets. This book is awesome.

American Notes for General Circulation is a portrait of 1842 America and Americans unlike any I’d ever encountered. Probably because, as it turns out, Americans liked Dickens's social commentary about stuff like Oliver Twist not getting a little more, but didn’t so much want to hear critiques about themselves. Typical. And so the book hasn’t come d...more In this book, we see nineteenth-century Washington congressmen hocking tobacco-juice loogies all over the Congressional carpets. This book is awesome.

American Notes for General Circulation is a portrait of 1842 America and Americans unlike any I’d ever encountered. Probably because, as it turns out, Americans liked Dickens's social commentary about stuff like Oliver Twist not getting a little more, but didn’t so much want to hear critiques about themselves. Typical. And so the book hasn’t come down in the classic US canon for the ages.

I think that maybe it should have. I’m still haunted by Dickens's image of traveling west, pre-railroad, through a soggy brown wasteland of gigantic stumps and tiny shacks – Little House on the Prairie it ain’t. And the discomfort, difficulty and danger (seems like those newfangled steam ships had a tendency to explode) of Dickens’s journey is riveting in itself, down to the descriptions of the shipboard accommodations, particularly the cuisine (look for it!).

But it’s not all jolly in travelogue land. Dickens found the institution of slavery so repugnant that a well-deserved excoriation of the US for tolerating it is a major focus of the book. Yay, Dickens! But did anyone else notice that in the midst of his knight errantry on behalf of the enslaved and impoverished, his treatment of women was rather problematic? I mean, he spends a not-insignificant portion of the book checking out hot Yankee babes (in kind of a creepy way), making scathing remarks about those Cambridge, MA bluestockings, and presenting his wife in a less-than-flattering light. Boo, Dickens! Now writing three-dimensional women was not exactly Dickens’s strong suit, but I’ve always cut him some Victorian male slack on that one. But as he served up yet another ogle, something gave, and I haven’t been able to cut him quite the same length of slack since.

My issues with Dickens and women didn’t scuttle the book, though, which is hilarious, insightful and feels awfully familiar. The more things change…
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Jan 04, 2012 Kyle rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Strange to think that 170 years ago this day, Charles Dickens and his wife boarded a ship to sail to the United States for a six-month vacation. Even stranger for me to have been reading this book for approximately 17 months (off and on) - nearly three times as long as their journey through the States and Canada. I should add that I was on a journey, having just started my Masters, with lots of coincidences between the Dickens' path and my own. The most striking is seeing the excellent film The...more

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Dec 23, 2010 Venus added it · review of another edition

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Charles Dickens entered the world of travel writing with his 1850 work, American Notes for General Circulation. Dickens' travels were part of the trend of European writers, such as Alexis de Tocqueville and Harriet Martineau, who came to America to comment on her successes and failures in the experiment of democracy. His work, reflecting his 5-month trip to America in 1842, proves to be a testing ground for his own democratic and radical ideals. Traveling mainly along the East Coast and Great La...more

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Mar 24, 2013 Chana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The famous quarrel between Charles Dickens and America. Can't say he didn't take on a worthy opponent...I mean, a whole country? Dickens, as usual, is larger than the life he portrays.

Though Dickens primarily made his views known through works of fiction, and many of his arguments with America were laid out similarly in Martin Chuzzlewit, it seems he couldn't keep from expounding upon those ideas in a full-blown work. As a whole, Dickens admires America and knows that America's brand of democrac...more

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Jan 30, 2009 Martin rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I think you have to start with the understanding that this is a non-fiction piece, and perhaps cut the guy some slack because he wasn’t a non-fiction writer. Sure, sure, he started out that way, but really even by the time he got to “Sketches by Boz” he was a fiction writer. And while he may have done research for the subsequent novels, there’s a big difference between that and writing non-fiction.

As such, I think he was presented with the problem of how to talk about what he was seeing. On top...more I think you have to start with the understanding that this is a non-fiction piece, and perhaps cut the guy some slack because he wasn’t a non-fiction writer. Sure, sure, he started out that way, but really even by the time he got to “Sketches by Boz” he was a fiction writer. And while he may have done research for the subsequent novels, there’s a big difference between that and writing non-fiction.

As such, I think he was presented with the problem of how to talk about what he was seeing. On top of that is the fact that whatever opinion the US public had of Dickens – one they probably confused with the narrator of the books – there was no way they were going to be pleasantly surprised with the real man. Especially since he was more than a bit of a snob where Americans were concerned, and as he grew horrified by their inability to treat him, or anyone as far as he could tell, as their social superior.

On the other hand, he didn’t really make it easier on himself. I mean, when you go on vacation to a new country, is your first stop the prisons, lunatic asylums and homes for the blind? I know, I know, he visited these places in England as well, and it was fashionable to do so. But come on. America is waiting to see what the great man will say about their nation – and he paints them a picture of morons, thieves and madmen. I’m not saying we’re not – I’m just saying you can’t paint that picture and expect to be cheered.

There is the outside chance that Dickens was doing all this on purpose, of course. He’d been fighting with American publishers for years about the fact that they infringed the copyright of all his books, and that he never saw a penny from all the US sales of his work. And this was a point he made time and again in speeches on his tour. So it is possible that he was intentionally writing a book that he felt would not have a market in the US – the logic being – well, if they won’t pay me for what I write anyway, I might as well write something they won’t publish.

Unfortunately, they did.

Will this keep me from reading more Dickens? Hardly. But I can heartily recommend that unless you’re a scholar of the era or the great man, I think you can pass this book by.

One side note – apparently while Dickens was in Baltimore he met briefly in his rooms with a young American author. The two did not hit it off, though both were quite cordial and polite. The author? Edgar Allan Poe.
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May 18, 2008 Steve rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Dickens fans, or students of American political history

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Dickens made a couple of trips to America during his life. The American Notes were the product of the first and along with his Italian Notes are pretty much the only available travel notes he made for outside of England (although, of course there are terrific episodes in Tale of Two Cities and Little Dorrit).

The American Notes aren't of that much interest to the general reader. Dickens was interested largely in the treatment of what he and Victorian culture would have looked as social concerns -...more

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Aug 02, 2010 Mike Wood rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Gives a good feel of what travel around America was like at the time, so there are great passages with Dickensian descriptions of America that are priceless.

On slavery, he found it so disturbing an institution that he changed his travel plans after spending a few days in the South. His very interesting observation was that, at that time, in that place, even if you found slavery despicable, there was no practical way to avoid it as you were served by slaves when entering restaurants, hotels, whi...more

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Sep 05, 2012 Amyem added it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, 60-book-challenge-2012, project-gutenberg

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I both read and listened to the LibriVox and Gutenberg versions, retreating to Gutenberg when the fake Enlgish accent of one reader grated on my nerves. I kept comparing this to Domestic Manners of the Americans, wherein Fanny Trollope worked herself into a state about the dreadfulness of America, and thought how much more thoroughly enjoyable it was to read Dickens on America. He loved some things, didn't plenty oth...more

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Mar 10, 2012 Tom rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Quite an interesting tour of the US by Charles Dickens from January to June of 1852. He tours the Northeast, far West (St. Louis), the south and Canada. During the course of his travels he visits numerous institutions, asylums, courts, and prisons. He witnesses slavery and the
lifestyle of the pioneer. He then gives a verbal spanking to the United States for slavery, crime etc. Rather long in the tooth but extremely interesting, descriptive and well written. (No Surprise considering the author).

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Dec 31, 2012 Dee Rose rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I enjoyed this book. He was surprisingly very witty and I found myself chuckling several times. He's a brilliant writer and sometimes it feels like you're reading a fictional story then you remember this actually all happened to him over 100 years ago. It's pretty neat. Plus, his vocabulary was remarkable... I think anyone who reads this is bound to learn a handful of new words.

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Feb 09, 2012 CadyCan rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Am only part way into the book on my new kindle having downloaded the Complete Works of Charles Dickens and finding this book to be the first book on the download and I must say that it would be frightfully boring if I hadn't recently visited Boston. As I was there in November, barely 6 weeks ago, I am finding it very interesting to read notes on a place that were written such a long time ago and being able to compare them with my own experience and observations.
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May 24, 2011 Dave Turner rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm not a fan of adventure diaries (be they travel or otherwise) but as this author is guilty of being a genius I can take two incredible memories away from this. The first being the amazing and inspiring true story of Laura Bridgeman (who was the first deaf, dumb and blind American). The second is the horrific insight in to the dark world of slavery (which is discribed in all it's awful detail)

Dickens is not afraid of offending any one by the writing of this travel diary, nor does he find any r...more

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Jul 15, 2012 Anne Payne added it · review of another edition

Fun as a period piece and also for some parallels to today.

I DO NOT BELIEVE IN STAR RATINGS FOR BOOKS.

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