Complete and unabridged, with 36 full-page plates by Albert Bierstadt, Edvard Munch and Winslow Homer. An orphan heiress with six boy cousins and a houseful of aunts is taken in hand by an uncle who prescribes fresh air, plain food and no corsets. Louisa May Alcott had trained as a nurse and put her opinions on how girls were raised into the doctor's mouth. The aunts lose the argument, and the boys are drawn from her own Concord neighbours. Thirty-six plates of mountains, rivers and city views by Albert Bierstadt and Childe Hassam open the wider world the cousins ride out into.