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Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780-1910 Book
This book, the first to trace the distinctive history of American travel writing, focuses on five great representatives of the genre: John Ledyard who set out to walk around the world in the 1700s; John Lloyd Stephens, the father of Mayan archaeology; Bayard Taylor, the nineteenth-century wanderer who invented travel writing as a profession; Mark Twain, who focused on the haps and mishaps of the uncultivated tourist; and Henry James, from whose cosmopolitan accounts of other societies travel writing emerged as great art.Read More
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- 0300082363
- 9780300082364
- L Ziff
- 2 February 2001
- Yale University Press
- Hardcover (Book)
- 320
- 1st Edition.
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