{"product_id":"mrs-adams-in-winter-a-journey-in-the-last-days-of-napoleon","title":"Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMichael O'Brien\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374215811\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2010\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e384\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eEarly in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, down the Baltic coast to Prussia, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleon's return from Elba. Along the way, she learned what the long years of Napoleon's wars had done to Europe, what her old friends in the royal court in Berlin had experienced during the French occupation, how it felt to have her life threatened by reckless soldiers, and how to manage fear. \u003cbr\u003eThe journey was a metaphor for a life spent crossing borders: born in London in 1775, she had grown up partly in France, and in 1797 had married into the most famous of American political dynasties and become the daughter-in-law of John and Abigail Adams. \u003cbr\u003eThe prizewinning historian Michael O'Brien reconstructs for the first time Louisa Adams's extraordinary passage. An evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings, \"Mrs. Adams in Winter \"offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon | Michael O'Brien | Hardcover | 9780374215811 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks E 1765875","offer_id":49376677953688,"sku":"1765875","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61ONU9Vgc9L.jpg?v=1783015532","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/mrs-adams-in-winter-a-journey-in-the-last-days-of-napoleon","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}