{"product_id":"9781628451252","title":"Thirty Years of my Life on Three Continents (Vol 1)","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHIRTY YEARS OF MY LIFE ON THREE CONTINENTS VOL. 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Edwin De Leon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcerpt from Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApology for Writing Reminiscences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHave seen and known so many Places and People\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Parents and Early Training\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Is the Child the Father of the Man?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncident in Illustration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe South Carolina University, Dr. Cooper President\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Lieber, Biographer of Professor Niebuhr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur Home Circle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER II \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife on the old Plantation Thirty Years Ago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristmas in the Country\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhite and Black, Master and Slave, how they live together\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome Anecdotes of Negro Character, and of Southern Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly Wanderings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVisit to Joseph Smith (Mormon Prophet) at Nauvoo, the original Holy City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArrival, Reception, and Treatment by the Prophet and the Saints\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I Saw and Heard there from Both\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePersonal Peculiarities of \"the Prophet\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinale of Prophet and City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER IV\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy early Legal and Literary Experiences, Drift into Politics and Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvited to Washington by Southern Members of Congress to Co-operate with Them\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWashington and its Worthies in the Olden Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClay, Calhoun, Webster, Soule, and his Duel with the French Ambassador at Madrid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam Houston and Crockett\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER V\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary, Scientific and Artistic Celebrities at Washington\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHawthorne, Morse, Longfellow, W. K. Story, O. W. Holmes, \u0026amp;c.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriendship between President Pierce and Hawthorne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Reminiscences of Hawthorne in America, and in Italy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis Introduction of the Marble Faun to me in the Vatican\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER VI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy first Glimpses of Lotos Land\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven days in a Dahabieh between Alexandria and Cairo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNights on the Nile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCairo as it then was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Official Reception by the Viceroy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Quarrel with the Viceroy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Strange History and its Sequel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER VII \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShepheard's Hotel in the Olden Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking acquaintance of \"a Remarkable Arab,\" then fresh from Mecca!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy English Colleague Sir Frederic Bruce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe spent Summer at Cairo in Old Palaces, in Oriental fashion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur Mode of Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER VIII\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCurious Characters at Shepheard's Thirty Years Ago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Abbott\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDe Lesseps\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER IX \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Protection of Greek Colony\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExciting Incidents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat it meant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiberal Offers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Protection means in the East\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDramas in Real Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVisit Greece on Invitation of the King\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat I saw there\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Athens of Thirty Years Ago, and the Court and People\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReminiscences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecorated with the Order of San Sauveur\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAthens now and then. . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWindham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. 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