Press enter after choosing selection

Mrs. Adams in Winter : : a Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon

O'Brien, Michael, 1948 Apr. 13- Book - 2010 940.27 O'B None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

Cover image for Mrs. Adams in winter : : a journey in the last days of Napoleon

Sign in to request

Location & Checkout Length Call Number Checkout Length Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor
4-week checkout
940.27 O'B 4-week checkout Due 04-23-2024

Saint Petersburg -- From Saint Petersburg to Riga -- From Riga to Berlin -- From Berlin to Eisenach -- From Eisenach to Frankfurt -- From Frankfurt to Paris -- Appendix: Places.
Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a Russian carriage and set out to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing Napoleon's return from Elba. Along the way, she learned what Napoleon's wars had done to Europe, what her old friends in the royal court in Berlin had experienced during the French occupation, how it felt to have her life threatened by reckless soldiers, and how to manage fear. Historian Michael O'Brien reconstructs for the first time that extraordinary passage. This evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.--From publisher description.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Library Journal Review
Booklist Review
Publishers Weekly Review
Summary / Annotation
Table of Contents
Fiction Profile
Excerpt
Author Notes

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

excellent! submitted by smgop on October 12, 2017, 8:53am This chronicle of Louisa Adams' experience as she moved her family from St Petersburg to Paris in the midst of war is gripping and fascinating!