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Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland (The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper) by James Fenimore Cooper; historical introd. and explanatory notes by Robert E. Spiller and James F. Beard; text established by Kenneth W. Staggs and James P. Elliott is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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In the summer of 1828 James Fenimore Cooper, his wife, and their five children set out from Paris for Switzerland, and Cooper wrote that he experienced a "glorious anticipation," for "a common-place converse with men was about to give place to a sublime communion with Nature." Sketches of Switzerland, the book which describes this experience and which is republished here for the first time in the United States since its original issue in 1836, was the first of five European travel books written,

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Author

James Fenimore Cooper; historical introd. and explanatory notes by Robert E. Spiller and James F. Beard; text established by Kenneth W. Staggs and James P. Elliott

Publisher

Albany: State University of New York Press

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780791499801

Category

history

Subjects

Travel, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25