Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 534 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
Volume 1
Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 534 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
ISBN: 978-1-108-00335-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Published in 1851, Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley's account of her travels through the Americas during the mid nineteenth century represents an early example of the travel writing genre. The United States was becoming an increasingly popular tourist destination for Europeans at this time, and Lady Emmeline's writings present a quintessentially British impression of America and its people. Volume I of this three-volume work begins with Lady Emmeline's arrival in New York in 1849, and the reader accompanies her to Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and New Orleans before returning to New York. Written in an engaging and conversational tone, the volumes are both informative and entertaining, fulfilling the author's aim to 'amuse' with 'the gossip of travel.'
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Preface; 1. Arrival at New York; 2. Detained at Albany; 3. Difficulty of conveying the impression caused by a first view of the Falls of Niagara; 4. Port Talbot; 5. Return to New York; 6. Boston; 7. Plans for the future; 8. Return to Boston; 9. Plymouth; 10. Green Harbour, the seat of Daniel Webster; 11. Visit to Mr and Mrs Prescott at Nahant; 12. The Blind Asylum at Boston and Laura Bridgeman; 13. Bridgeport; 14. Philadelphia; 15. The City of Washington; 16. Discomforts of travelling over the Alleghanies; 17. Description of Louisville; 18. A conversation in a coach; 19. The steamer from Louisville; 20. The Mississippi; 21. The St. Charles Hotel at New Orleans; 22. Mobile; 23. Boston as a commercial city; 24. Bustle in the streets of New York.
