Download or read book Travels Through the States of North America written by Isaac Weld and published by London : J. Stockdale. This book was released on 1807 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travels with Charley in Search of America written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers A Penguin Classic In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life—a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South—which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand—Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Jay Parini. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book Journey to the United States of North America Viaje a los Estados Unidos del Norte de Am rica written by Lorenzo de Zavala and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Paris in 1834, Journey to the United States of America / Viaje a los Estados Unidos del Norte América, by Lorenzo de Zavala, is an elegantly written travel narrative that maps de Zavala's journey through the United States during his exile from Mexico in 1830. Embracing U.S., Texas, and Mexican history; early ethnography; geography; and political philosophy, de Zavala outlines the cultural and political institutions of Jacksonian America and post-independence Mexico. de Zavala's commentary rivals Alex de Tocqueville's classic travel narrative, Democracy in America, which was published in Paris one year after de Zavala's. The narrative presents the first account of U.S. political culture from a Mexican point of view and constructs the first comparative political and historical framework for the relationship between Mexico and the United States. In passionate prose, de Zavala argues for the incorporation of the true democratic ideals of the enlightenment in the fledgling Republic of Texas. He hoped Texas would meld the best of both Mexican and American cultures. de Zavala believed that if his colleagues who helped frame the Texas Constitution understood the complexities of democracy and the ideals that their state could achieve through a liberal, federal government that gave equal rights to all of its constituents: Native Americans, Mexicans, Euro-Americans, and free African Americans. The original text is accompanied by eight pages of maps and historical photos, John-Michael Rivera's critical introduction, and an English translation based upon Wallace Woolsey's deft translation, expanded and revised for the purposes of this volume.
Download or read book Travels Through the United States of America written by John Melish and published by Philadelphia : Printed for the author ; London : Reprinted for G. Cowie. This book was released on 1819 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travels Through the United States of North America the Country of the Iroquois and Upper Canada in the Years 1795 1796 and 1797 written by François-Alexandre-Frédéric duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Travels Through the United States of North America written by François-Al La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work of travel literature, French aristocrat François-Alexandre-Frédéric La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt provides readers with an insightful and informative perspective on life in the early American republic. He describes a wide range of topics, including the political system, the culture, and the natural resources of the United States, and provides vivid and engaging descriptions of the people he meets along the way. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Negro Motorist Green Book written by Victor H. Green and published by Colchis Books. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
Download or read book Travels Through Canada and the United States of North America written by John Lambert and published by London : Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy ; Edinburgh : W. Blackwood ; Dublin : J. Cumming. This book was released on 1816 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Al America written by Jonathan Curiel and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a "San Francisco Chronicle" journalist comes this lively, funny, and revealing look at the little known influence of Arab and Islamic culture on America.
Download or read book Travels in the United States of America written by William Priest and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A musician offers an account of his travels through the Mid-Atlantic and New England. He offers commentary on Native American contact, social life, and hunting game and fishing (a passion of his).
Download or read book The Lost Continent written by Bill Bryson and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1989 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Download or read book Spotlight on the United States of America written by Bobbie Kalman and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basic introduction to the history, geography, climate, and culture of the United States.
Download or read book Letters from North America written by Adam Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America written by Gottfried Duden and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the early nineteenth century, Missouri played a central role in attracting Germans to the Midwest, perhaps most notably through Gottfried Duden's widely read Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America. Duden traveled to America in 1824 with a professional farmer and cook to work the land he purchased near what is now Dutzow, Missouri. He spent his days visiting the lead mines, duck hunting with Nathan Boone, and observing nature. His idyllic acccounts, written in the form of personal letters, covered many topics, from slavery and the indigenous inhabitants of the land to farming methods and weather. Duden returned to Germany in 1827, and in 1829 he self-published 1,500 copies of his "letters home," praising the virtues of Missouri for those wishing to be farmers or businessmen. By 1840, more than 38,000 Germans had settled in the lower Missouri River valley, and German immigrants to Missouri were often called 'followers of Duden.'" --
Download or read book Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825 written by Auguste Levasseur and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lambert s Travels Through Canada written by John Lambert and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhat mistitled, Lambert's Travels through Canada and the United States of North America, in the years 1806, 1807, & 1808, would more properly be titled "Lambert's Travels along the East Coast of the United States, ending in Canada." Beginning his travels in Savannah and Charleston, making note of his fellow travellers and the social environs, Lambert then travels up to Boston, where he comments at length upon the "rigidity of the character" among the original settlers. Among his descriptions of places and peoples, Lambert notes the differences in attitudes toward 'Negroes" in the South and the North, as well as the differences in lifestyles and social mores. Providing social biography, as well as travelogue, Lambert provides biographical sketches and anecdotes about famous Americans, including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, Aaron Burr, and Thomas Paine, amongst others. Much attention is also given to the agriculture, commerce, economics, and politics of the United States. In the final chapter of the work, Lambert's journey takes him through New York, New Hampshire and Vermont, before he finally makes his way to Canada, ending his journey in Montreal. vol. 1 of 2
