Walks and talks of an American farmer in England (Part 1 of 2) (Registro nro. 117886)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | S |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Olmsted, Frederick Law, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1822-1903 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Walks and talks of an American farmer in England (Part 1 of 2) |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-11-01 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | A Marshall, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Walks and talks of an American farmer in England (Part 1 of 2)" by Olmsted is a travelogue written in the mid-19th century. It follows an American farmer’s voyage to and exploration of England, observing everyday life, labor, agriculture, and social institutions, told in a frank letter-diary style that blends practical detail with sharp, humane portraits.<br/><br/>The opening of the book sets the purpose and tone: the narrator travels with two companions to study wages, working people, and ordinary farming practices, aiming to see the country beyond elite showpieces. He recounts a duplicitous second-cabin booking, a brief shipboard mutiny quelled by a heavy-handed captain, and a delayed departure, then offers vivid sea-life sketches—whales, phosphorescent waters, a comic mid-ocean “what’s the news?” hail, and a stiff gale. Life on board brings encounters with artisans and radicals debating politics and religion, a thoughtful but combative deist, and stark contrasts between steerage misery and the narrator’s more comfortable quarters; a doctor’s tale of cholera at sea underscores negligence in emigrant shipping. Approaching Britain, he notes Channel craft, pilots, and tugs, then records first impressions of Liverpool—its massive docks, disciplined police, railway station bustle, cheap but decent lodgings, and the somber, pitiable nighttime presence of prostitutes along the quays. He closes this opening stretch with practical notes on costs, brick and stone building, shopfronts, and markets, grounding the narrative in the textures of urban English life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: George P. Putnam, 1852 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | England -- Description and travel |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Agriculture -- England |
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| Uncontrolled term | Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 -- Travel -- England |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/walkstalksfarmer01olmsrich/page/n5/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/walkstalksfarmer01olmsrich/page/n5/mode/2up</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77164">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77164</a> |
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