Visiting Utopian Communities: A Guide to the Shakers, Moravians, and Others

by Gerald L. Gutek and Patricia Gutek

Book Overview

A travel guide to historic communitarian sites

From the orderly, practical buildings and furnishings at Hancock Shaker Village to the carefully planted heirloom gardens at Old Salem, America's nineteenth-century utopian communities reflect the country's long-standing fascination with idyllic societies isolated from the rest of humanity. With their latest guidebook, Gerald and Patricia Gutek invite history and travel enthusiasts of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570032106
• ISBN13: 9781570032103
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"