Lost in the Antebellum

This Volume Is A Compendium Of The Thoughts And Works Of Authors, And Of Prose And Scientific Thought Prior To The American Civil War. Featured Are Maury The Oceanographer; The Author William Gilmore Simms, Of Whom Edgar Allen Poe Remarked Was The Best American Novelist In Recent Decades; The Hutchinson Family Singers Whose Concert Tours In The Usa And Britain Did Much To Serve The Cause Of Emancipation; The “real” Story Of Davy Crockett, The American Frontiersman Who Died With Jim Bowie At The Alamo, Which Is More Interesting Than The Old Fictional Accounts Of His Life; And “six Days In The Moon,” A Tale Of An Event That Allegedly Occurred In June 1844, By “an Aerio-nautical Man” Who Has Just Returned From The Moon. Also Featured Are Contemporary Composers, Explorers, Poets And Filibusters. This Book Is A Concise View Of Pre-civil War America.