As it happens I've just finished reading Irena Grudzińska Gross's Custine, Tocqueville, and the Romantic Imagination [1], half of it being devoted to Tocquevill

As it happens I've just finished reading Irena Grudzińska Gross's Custine, Tocqueville, and the Romantic Imagination [1], half of it being devoted to Tocqueville and his journey to the United States. The part that touches on him and his friend Gustave de Beaumont visiting Lake Oneida and especially the deeply forested Frenchman Island located there was really illuminating. I highly recommend the entire book (the first part on Custine and his travels into Russia also deserves an entire article all by itself, probably even more so). [1] https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft3b69n83q&brand=ucpress https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft3b69...