It's available from Bookserve! If anyone's interested, just take that big Q at the top to the Quick Index, then click on our Bookserve link. Choose "author" in the search, and type in Don Herzog, and you will come up with a list of 3 books by this author, #3 being the one in Question.

Patricia, thanks! Isn't it great to find a book which doesn't asssume 1800 is either the beginning or the end of civilisation as we know it?

(and, if you have the time......does it say anything about a guy called William Gilpin? If so, is there much about him? Please don't put a great quote up, unless , of course your cut and paste problem is solved....)