A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era
A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
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)
Peter J Kitson, William Baker, Indira Ghose, Susan Schoenbauer Thurin
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