sentences:  Birkbeck published "Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois" (1817), first in Philadelphia, then in London, Dublin, and Cork.An account of the party's emigration travel experiences, with vague references to their plans for establishing a wilderness sanctuary, it became immensely popular, with its promise of improving the lives of downtrodden working and middle-class Europeans.It ran through eleven editions in English in two years, and was published in German at Jena (1818), and translated into Swedish by Georg Scheutz (1818).