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Travels in the United States, etc. during 1849 and 1850
3 Volume Set

Part of Cambridge Library Collection - North American History

Author: Emmeline Stuart-Wortley

Date Published: September 2009
availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
format: Multiple copy pack
isbn: 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.'

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Product details
- Date Published: September 2009
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108003346
- length: 1022 pages
- dimensions: 323 x 250 x 70 mm
- weight: 1.8kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
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.
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Emmeline Stuart-Wortley