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Book Literature of Travel and Exploration

Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Book Travelers In Texas  1761 1860

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marilyn Mcadams Sibley
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2014-02-19
  • ISBN : 0292783701
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Travelers In Texas 1761 1860 written by Marilyn Mcadams Sibley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History passed in review along the highways of Texas in the century 1761–1860. This was the century of exploration and settlement for the big new land, and many thousands of people traveled its trails: traders, revolutionaries, missionaries, warriors, government agents, adventurers, refugees, gold seekers, prospective settlers, land speculators, army wives, and filibusters. Their reasons for coming were many and varied, and the travelers viewed the land and its people with a wide variety of reactions. Political and industrial revolution, famine, and depression drove settlers from many of the countries of Europe and many of the states of the United States. Some were displeased with what they found in Texas, but for many it was a haven, a land of renewed hope. So large was the migration of people to Texas that the land that was virtually unoccupied in 1761 numbered its population at 600,000 a century later. Several hundred of these travelers left published accounts of their impressions and adventures. Collectively the accounts tell a panoramic story of the land as its boundaries were drawn and its institutions formed. Spain gave way to Mexico, Mexico to the Republic of Texas, the Republic to statehood in the United States, and statehood in the Union was giving way to statehood in the Confederate states by 1860. The travelers’ accounts reflect these changes; but, more important, they tell the story of the receding frontier. In Travelers in Texas, 1761–1860, the author examines the Texas seen by the traveler-writer. Opening with a chapter about travel conditions in general (roads or trails, accommodations, food), she also presents at some length the travelers’ impressions of the country and its people. She then proceeds to examine particular aspects of Texas life: the Indians, slavery, immigration, law enforcement, and the individualistic character of the people, all as seen through the eyes of the travelers. The discussion concludes with a “Critical Essay on Sources,” containing bibliographic discussions of over two hundred of the more important travel accounts.

Book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle

Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athenaeum

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Examiner

Download or read book The Examiner written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ocean of Story

Download or read book The Ocean of Story written by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua

Download or read book Pottery of Costa Rica and Nicaragua written by Samuel Kirkland Lothrop and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas

Download or read book The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas written by Kelly F. Himmel and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the conquest of the Karankawas and Tonkawas Indians by white settlers in nineteenth-century Texas.

Book The Bookseller

Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres  Arts  Sciences   c

Download or read book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences c written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science  Art  and Finance

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science Art and Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saturday Review

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  • Release : 1859
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 846 pages

Download or read book Saturday Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Bulletin

Download or read book Annual Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oversea Travel and Travel Expenditures in the Balance of International Payments of the United States  1919 1938

Download or read book Oversea Travel and Travel Expenditures in the Balance of International Payments of the United States 1919 1938 written by August Maffry and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pleasure Travel Markets to North America

Download or read book Pleasure Travel Markets to North America written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: