Writings about the nature of North America and its inhabitants, speaking in terms of both literal landscape and metaphor......more
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A man travels through the Mid-West and deep South following what seems to be a convoluted route....more
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In order to provide a "living picture’" of America and to entice his fellow countrymen to emigrate to the United States,......more
Somewhat mistitled, Lambert’s Travels through Canada and the United States of North America, in the years 1806, 1807, & ......more
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A thorough, detailed description of travel along the Mississippi Valley, done with an eye toward settling in New Orleans......more
The reflections of a nineteenth-century, New Hampshire lawyer who left his home to walk to Michigan in the dead of winte......more
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An English gentleman travels through New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Mid-West, and finds himself impressed with t......more
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Printed privately in 1826, Anne Newport Royall’s Sketches of History, Life and Manners in the United States caused quite......more
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Originally published in 1828, Fran√ ois Ren√(c) de Chateaubriand’s 2-volume Travels in America and Italy is an important......more
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Compared, in the Preface by Henry Pearson Gratton, to Mrs. Trollope’s "The Domestic Manners of the American’s, this work......more
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Grey’s U.S. travels inspired him to examine the conditions of the employed and the unemployed in America. Mr. Grey’s num......more
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Nicholas Cresswell was twenty-four years old when he left his birthplace of Edale, England to sail for Virginia, believi......more
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An Englishman travels to the Mid-Atlantic and make observations on social customs, religious observance (including comme......more
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Charles Augustus Murray, a British diplomat, traveled through the United States, focusing on the Midwest and South. In h......more
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Josiah Gregg’s Commerce of the Prairie, published in 1844, is based largely upon entries made into his own journal over ......more
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A travelogue covering a wide range of North America (including Canada) focusing on the Methodist establishments in diffe......more
"Not an armchair narrative," Alexander Ross’s "Adventure’s of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River" descri......more
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Arthur Asa Berger’s Deconstructing Travel is an engaging look into why people travel, examining travel and tourism as a ......more
This eclectic and quirky anthology collects nearly 100 excerpts from the writings of travelers and tourists who have vis......more
Published in 1928, this exploration of the accounts of missionary Thomas Gage, edited by A.P.Newton, accounts the arduou......more
The naturalist in Nicaragua. A narrative of a residence at the gold mines of Chontales journeys in the savannahs and for......more