To My Dearest Wife, Lide - Letters from George B. Gideon Jr. during Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan, 1853–1855

Offers a rare first-person account of the landmark American naval expedition to Japan to establish commercial relations between the two countries. George Gideon's letters have been meticulously transcribed and annotated by the editors and are an invaluable primary historical source.

About the author

M. Patrick Sauer is an entrepreneur based in Baltimore, Maryland. His wife is a descendant of George B. Gideon Jr.

David A. Ranzan is university archivist and special collections librarian and associate professor at Adelphi University. He is the editor of Surviving Andersonville: One Prisoner's Recollections of the Civil War's Most Notorious Camp and coeditor of With Commodore Perry to Japan: The Journal of William Speiden Jr., 1852-1855 and Hero of Fort Schuyler: Selected Revolutionary War Correspondence of Brigadier General Peter Gansevoort, Jr.

Summary

Offers a rare first-person account of the landmark American naval expedition to Japan to establish commercial relations between the two countries. George Gideon's letters have been meticulously transcribed and annotated by the editors and are an invaluable primary historical source.

Product details

• Authors: David A Ranzan, David A. Ranzan, M Patrick Sauer, M. Patrick Sauer
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780817320232
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2023-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 237 mm x 164 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 562 g
• Illustrations: 15 black & white figures
• Series: Maritime Currents: History and; Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology; Maritime Currents: History and; Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous