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Introduction : New worlds and old lands : the travel book and the construction of American identity /Judith Hamera and Alfred Bendixen --Beginnings : the origins of American travel writing in the pre-revolutionary period /Philip Gould --"Property in the horizon" : landscape and American travel writing /William W. Stowe --New York to Niagara by way of the Hudson and the Erie /Christopher Mulvey --The Mississippi river as site and symbol /Thomas Ruys Smith --The Southwest and travel writing /Martin Padget --American travel books about Europe before the Civil War /Alfred Bendixen --Americans in Europe : Henry James to the present /William Merrill Decker --Americans in the Holy Land, Israel, and Palestine /Hilton Obenzinger --Americans in the larger world : beyond the Pacific coast /Christopher McBride --South of the border : American travel writing in Latin America /Terry Caesar --African American travel literature /Virginia Whatley Smith --American women and travel writing /Susan L. Roberson --Driving that highway to consciousness : late twentieth-century American travel literature /Deborah Paes de Barros.
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American travel writing
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Travelers' writings -- American -- History and criticism
American prose literature -- History and criticism