Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource
Ausgabe:
Reproduktion Farmington Hills, Mi Gale 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780787610722
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0787610720
Serie:
Dictionary of literary biography v. 183
Inhalt:
John Adams (1735-1826) - Abigail Adams (1744-1818) - John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-) - Horatio Bridge (1806-1862) - William Wells Brown (circa 1813-1884) - Fanny Calderon de la Barca (1804-1882) - James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) - George Copway (circa 1818-1869) - David Crockett (1786-1836) - Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815-1882) - Amasa Delano (1763-1823) - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) - John Charles Fremont (1813-1890) - Jessie Benton Fremont (1834-1902) - Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) - Josiah Gregg (1806-1850) -Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) -Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (1809-1871) - Joel Tyler Headley (1813-1897) - Washington Irving (1783-1859) - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -George Jones (1800-1870) - Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) - William Clark (1700-1838) - Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1803-1848) - Francis Parkman (1823-1893) - Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) - Matthew Perry (1794-1858) - Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813) - David Porter (1780-1843) -James Riley (1777-1840) - Catharine Marie Sedgwick (1789-1867) - Lydia Howard (Huntley) Sigourney (1791-1865) - Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) - John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) - John Trumball (1756-1843) - Charles Wilkes (1798-1877) - Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867).
Inhalt:
Essays on American travel writers, during the time period when scientific travel writing focused on exploration, biological diversity, mapping and charting. Travel writers also acted as economic scouts for their new nation. Discusses the changing modes of travel as well as the various types of American travelers. These travel writers selected events to report on based on their perceptions of what matters to the readers
Anmerkung:
Original 418 p
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Mode of access: Internet.
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
Available via Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
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