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The Delectable Country
The Delectable Country is an historical novel by the American writer Leland Baldwin (1897–1981) set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Whiskey Rebellion is brewing in the 1790s as protagonist David Braddee, aged nineteen, pilots his foster father's keelboat to a difficult landing at the frontier town of Pittsburgh, after a trip up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers from New Orleans.
See also.
Other novels that employ events of the Whiskey Rebellion:
- "The Whiskey Rebels" (2008)
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, however, thought that "readers of Huntingtower and Castle Gay will welcome old friends in this delectable narrative of the tangled policies of Evallonia", and that no-one will complain that "the long-bow of romance is often drawn by the long arm of coincidence when the mark is well and truly hit".
In "The Interpreter's House" (1975), David Daniell notes that while the novel does contain some striking images and scenes, it does not represent Buchan at his best. According to