Three Years in Europe; Or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met ... with a Memoir of the Author, by William Farmer. [with a Portrait.]

Publisher Marketing: Title: Three Years in Europe; or, Places I have seen and people I have met ... With a memoir of the author, by William Farmer. [With a portrait.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Brown, William Wells; 1855. 320 p.; 8 . 10107.c.23. Contributor Bio:  Brown, William Wells William Wells Brown (18141884) was born a slave, escaped to the North and then to England, and became one of the most prominent abolitionists of his time. During his prolific literary career, Brown was a pioneer in several different genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama. M. Giulia Fabi is the author of "Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel," She teaches American literature at the University of Ferrara, Italy.