Quinze jours au désert

By Alexis de Tocqueville

Subjects: Biography, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travels, Descripción y viajes, Historians, Indians of North America, Descripción, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Viajes, History, Travel, United states, social conditions

Description: In these pages, Tocqueville tells of the journey he undertook in July 1831 from Detroit to Saginaw with his friend Gustave de Beaumont. Devastated forests, deserts that became cities, persecuted aboriginal peoples: nothing will be the same in America after the arrival of the white man.