Memoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond, 1748-1775
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- ISBN 9780813939674
- Weight: 715g
- Dimensions: 154 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2017
- Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A lavishly illustrated manuscript from the eighteenth century now being published for the first time, Thomas Hammond’s memoirs are a major discovery. This abandoned waif embarks on a long journey through bewildering foreign lands—working by turns as a stableboy, jockey, servant to French nobles, itinerant circus rider, and entertainment entrepreneur—only to recover his home and father at the end of his travels.
Personal narratives by the eighteenth-century’s nonelites are exceedingly rare, and Hammond’s memoir provides a wonderfully vivid depiction of the texture of everyday life in this era. Possessed of a dry wit, Hammond can be hilarious, offering uproarious descriptions of stableboy pranks, but he can also be compellingly frank about his emotions, revealing how deprived of love he felt as a young boy, or earnestly recounting how he fell in love with his master’s wife.
This edition includes numerous illustrations from the original manuscript—Hammond’s own hand-drawn travel maps and depictions of bullfighting as well as various images of the equestrian life collected by Hammond, many in brilliant color.
Personal narratives by the eighteenth-century’s nonelites are exceedingly rare, and Hammond’s memoir provides a wonderfully vivid depiction of the texture of everyday life in this era. Possessed of a dry wit, Hammond can be hilarious, offering uproarious descriptions of stableboy pranks, but he can also be compellingly frank about his emotions, revealing how deprived of love he felt as a young boy, or earnestly recounting how he fell in love with his master’s wife.
This edition includes numerous illustrations from the original manuscript—Hammond’s own hand-drawn travel maps and depictions of bullfighting as well as various images of the equestrian life collected by Hammond, many in brilliant color.
George E. Boulukos is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University and the author of The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture.
