This got to me:
I am reading “Notes on a journey in America from the coast of Virginia to the territory of Illinois,” by Morris Birkbeck, an Englishman who decides to settle in the American frontier and essentially writes a travel book/memoir about the journey. It can be found on Google Books here.
I don’t know how it ends yet, but if you would like to read about a newcomer’s impressions upon landing in Virginia from England, past Washington, D.C., still recovering from the ravages of the British sacking of the city, etc., I recommend it.
