Introduction: new worlds and old lands - the travel book and the construction of American identity

pp 1-10

Part I - Confronting the American landscape

1 - Beginnings: the origins of American travel writing in the pre-revolutionary period

pp 13-25

2 - “Property in the horizon”: landscape and American travel writing

pp 26-45

3 - New York to Niagara by way of the Hudson and the Erie

pp 46-61

4 - The Mississippi River as site and symbol

pp 62-77

5 - The Southwest and travel writing

pp 78-100

Part II - Americans abroad

6 - American travel books about Europe before the Civil War

pp 103-126

7 - Americans in Europe from Henry James to the present

pp 127-144

8 - Americans in the Holy Land, Israel, and Palestine

pp 145-164

9 - Americans in the larger world: beyond the Pacific coast

pp 165-179

10 - South of the border: American travel writing in Latin America

pp 180-194

Part III - Social scenes and American sites

11 - African American travel literature

pp 197-213

12 - American women and travel writing

pp 214-227

13 - Driving that highway to consciousness: late twentieth-century American travel literature

pp 228-243

Chronology

pp 244-278

Further Reading

pp 279-288

Index

pp 289-301