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Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780-1910
Return Passages Great American Travel Writing 17801910
Author: Larzer Ziff
This book, the first to trace the distinctive history of American travel writing, focuses on five great representatives of the genre: John Ledyard who set out to walk around the world in the 1700s; John Lloyd Stephens, the father of Mayan archaeology; Bayard Taylor, the nineteenth-century wanderer who invented travel writing as a profession;...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300082364
ISBN-10: 0300082363
Publication Date: 12/11/2000
Pages: 306
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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