The Imprisoned Traveler is a fascinating portrait of a unique book, its context, and its elusive author.
Joseph Forsyth, traveling through an Italy plundered by Napoleon, was unjustly imprisoned in 1803 by the French as an enemy alien.
Out of his arduous eleven-year detention came his only book, Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy (1813).
Written as an (unsuccessful) appeal for release, praised by Forsyth's contemporaries for its originality .
Bucknell University Press The imprisoned traveler: joseph forsyth and napoleon's italy, paperback/keith crook
