As a young man, Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843 1911), the Cambridge-educated Radical politician who went on to campaign for votes for women and labourers, legalisation of trade unions, and universal schooling, spent two years touring the English-speaking world. This two-volume illustrated account of his journey was published in 1868, the year in which he first entered Parliament. Volume 1 describes his travels across the United States, where he arrived aboard The Saratoga, landing at Chesapeake Bay in Virginia on 20 June 1866. Dilke explored the reconstructing American South, the bustling...
As a young man, Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843 1911), the Cambridge-educated Radical politician who went on to campaign for votes for women and laboure...
