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A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries
List of contents
Part I Volume 2: North America Sir Charles Lyell, A Second Visit to the United States of North America (1849); Alexander Mackay, The Western World; or, Travels in the United States in 1846-47: Exhibiting them in their Latest Development Social, Political, and Industrial: Including a Chapter on California (1849); George F. Ruxton, Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains (1849); Isabella Lucy Bird [later Bishop], The Englishwoman in America (1856); William Ferguson, America by River and Rail: or, Notes by the Way on the New World and its People (1856); Thomas H. Gladstone, Kansas; or, Squatter Life and Border Warfare in the Far West (1857); Clara Bromley, A Woman's Wanderings in the Western World: A Series of Letters Addressed to Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M.P. by his Daughter Mrs. Bromley (1861); Samuel Phillips Day, Down South; or, An Englishman's Experience at the Seat of the American War (1862); Robert Ferguson, America During and After the War (1866); Sir William Francis Butler, The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America (1872); Wyndham-Quin, Earl of Dunraven, The Great Divide: Travels in the Upper Yellowstone in the Summer of 1874 (1876); George Jacob Holyoake, Among the Americans and a Stranger in America (1881); George Augustus Sala, America Revisited: From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Lake Michigan to the Pacific (1883); Emily Faithfull, Three Visits to America (1884); E. Catherine Bates, A Year in the Great Republic (1887); Sir E. W. Watkin, Canada and the States: Recollections 1851 to 1886 (1887); William Garden Blaikie, Summer Suns in the Far West: A Holiday trip to the Pacific Slope (1890); Alexander Craib, America and the Americans: A Narrative of a Tour in the United States and Canada with Chapters on American Home Life (1892); Eyre Crowe, With Thackeray in America (1893); Lady Theodora Guest, A Round Trip in North America (1895); William Archer, America To-Day: Observations and Reflections (1900); Horace Annesley Vachell, Life and Sport on the Pacific Slope (1900); Paul Fountain, The Great Deserts and Forests of North America, with a Preface by W. Hudson (1901); James Bryce, 'America Revisited: The Changes of a Quarter-Century,' The Outlook, (1905); Alfred Russel Wallace, My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions (1908)
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Tim Fulford, Peter J Kitson, Tim Youngs
