Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon

Early in 1815 Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband John Quincy Adams in Paris. She traveled through the snows of Eastern Europe across the battlefields of Germany and into a France then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleons return from Elba. The prize-winning historian Michael OBrien reconstructs for the first time Louisa Adamss extraordinary passage. An evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings Mrs. Adams in Winter offers a moving portrait of a lady her difficult marriage and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.