Emmeline Stuart-Wortley
Cambridge University Press
e druk, 2009
9781108003346
Travels in the United States, etc. during 1849 and 1850 3 Volume Set
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Onbekend, 1022 blz.
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Engels
Cambridge University Press |
2009
ISBN13: 9781108003346
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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. The three volumes record her journeys through Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and New Orleans; through Mexico; Panama and Peru, and finally Kingston, Jamaica. 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.'
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781108003346
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:onbekend
Aantal pagina's:1022
Uitgever:Cambridge University Press
Serie:Cambridge Library Co
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Volume I: 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; Volume II: 1. Vera Cruz by moonlight; 2. The Mexicans; 3. Mexico when first conquered; 4. The cathedral of Mexico; 5. Mexico; 6. General Herrera, the President of Mexico and the American minister; 7. Intention to cross the Isthmus of Panama; 8. Departure for Vera Cruz; 9. Departure from Puebla; 10. Departure from Peroté; 11. Arrival at Havana; 12. Performance of a military band in the Grand Square; 13. Arrival at Panama; 14. The river Chagres; 15. Gorgona; 16. Arrival at Panama; 17. The journey to Panama resumed; Volume III: 1. Monarchy and democracy; 2. Intention to go to Lima; 3. The probable future of Panama; 4. Arrival at Lima announced; 5. Cherimoyas; 6. Site of old Callao; 7. The Great Plaza; 8. Signal instance of the heroism of a lady; 9. Manco Capac and his wife; 10. About to leave Lima; 11. The voyage from Peru to Panama; 12. Peru; 13. Departure from Peru; 14. The hotel at Cruces.