Excursion through the Slave States, from Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico; with Sketches of Popular Manners and Geological Notices 

Published by John Murray, 1844, hardcover, fold-out map of the USA, 356 pages, recased with original boards, leather title label to spine,16 cms x 23 cms x 2.6 cms, condition: very good.

The author,G.W. Featherstonhaugh, a geologist of some repute, left Baltimore in August 1834, travelled through the Virginia mountains and across Tennessee, then to Louisville and overland to St. Louis across Indiana and Illinois. From St. Louis he went overland to Arkansas, a state of which he was very critical. He went a few miles into Texas before going to New Orleans and back via Mobile, Montgomery, Macon, Augusta, and north to Richmond. His account of his experiences is one of the first sustained narratives by an intelligent European traveller entirely in the slave South, and is frequently cited.

George William Featherstonhaugh FRS  was a British-American geologist and geographer. He was the first geologist to the US government. He surveyed portions of the Louisiana Purchase for the US government.

                                          PLEASE NOTE THIS IS VOLOUME ONE OF A TWO VOLUME SET (VOLUME TWO NOT PRESENT)