The Englishwoman in America

Bird, Isabella. The Englishwoman in America, 1856.

In 1856, Isabella Bird published The Englishwoman in America, the first of what would be many books of her travels around the world. Adopting a tone of aloof bemusement, she describes in detail the hardships and annoyances of her travels by sea from England to Halifax, and on the road to Boston, Cincinnati, and Chicago. The book's 20 chapters are full of keenly observed and entertainingly told stories of pickpockets and luggage thieves, greasy hotels, and Americans who are very polite, but have the unfortunate habit of spitting on the floor. Bird admits to sharing the regrettably prejudiced view the English have of America, but nevertheless finds much to like and admire in this new country bustling with ethnically diverse immigrants full of energy and bravado. The Englishwoman in America is a wonderful travelogue that offers a lively and personal glimpse into mid-nineteenth-century America. 

 

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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

Bly, Nellie. Around the World in Seventy-Two Days. New York: The Pictorial Weeklies Company, 1890.

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is a book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the world, which was inspired by the book, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. She carried out the journey for Joseph Pulitzer's tabloid newspaper, the New York World.

 

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Round the World on a Wheel

Fraser, John Foster. Round the World on a Wheel. London: Methuen & Co., 1899.

 

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Bits of Travel

Hunt Jackson, Helen. Bits of Travel. Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1874.

 

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Bits of Travel at Home

Hunt Jackson, Helen. Bits of Travel at Home. Boston: Little, Brown, 1909.

 

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A Little Tour in France

James, Henry. A Little Tour in France. Boston: J.R. Osgood and Co., 1885.

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Rest not
Life is sweeping by
go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime,
leave behind to conquer time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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