Selections from Jefferson's letters describe his experiences and observations visiting France in 1784 (view table of contents)

Retraces Thomas Jefferson's odyssey through the South of France, from Arles to the Canal du Midi, with breathtaking photographs, period engravings, portraits, maps, paintings, excerpts from Jefferson's notes, and letters he wrote to friends and family. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Among the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, this volume has the most detailed coverage of his day-to-day life. These disciplined records of personal expenditures, and of various other daily observations, furnish valuable information about prices and availability of commodities of the period and provide abundant evidence of Jefferson's devotion to a systematic way of living and of his insatiable curiosity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)