Iowa Leaves: Six Chapters (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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While it is the privilege of many to visit and observe different portions of our country - as traveling has greatly increased in late years, and as facilities are multiplied, is likely to increase still more - yet it is chiefly confined to certain classes by no means numerically large. There are others who are cut off from this species of amusement and information - they have neither the requisite leisure nor sufficient wealth, perhaps; many also are unfitted for traveling by reason of habit or disposition, new objects would neither please nor profit them. But for such a privation is there no indemnity? Must they who cannot visit places of interest and amusement, and view with their own eyes, the varieties of pleasurable objects within our own State, always remain in ignorance? Happily this is not the severe condition of their being. It is not necessary to forego the pleasure and advantage of a varied and extensive knowledge of the world; they may enjoy it at home and in every season of the year, even amidst the frosts and confinements of winter. They may travel and view the interesting points of our State described in this book, and never quit the fireside or porticoes of their own homes.

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