 | Colonial American Travel Narratives (Penguin Classics) by Various
Buy new: $15.30 / Used from: $0.06 Surprisingly frank accounts from early Americans.
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 | American Journeys An Anthology of Travel in the United States by E. D. Editor Bennet
Buy used from: $0.29 Short essays, but very telling.
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 | Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature by Christopher Mulvey
Buy new: $110.00 / Used from: $40.00 Views from more famous observers
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 | Roughing It (Enriched Classic Series) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.80 Experience Virginia City during the Silver Rush. Very funny.
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 | Life on the Mississippi (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.07 A fun book to read--lots of laughs--but also helps reader appreciate "The Father of Waters."
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 | Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes by Isabella L. Bird
Buy used from: $1.47 In her day Isabella Bird was considered,if anyone considered her at all, a nondescript spinster,that is until at the age of 41 her doctor prescribed travel for her failing health-- then she came alive. Her diary of 19th century America is riveting. her books are an inspiration to anyone who feels they're too old or too sick to travel.
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 | Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii by Mark Twain
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $0.13 A great companion book to Isabella Bird's account. Compare their perspectives on Hawaii around the same time period, late 1800s.
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 | The Oregon Trail (Dover Value Editions) by Francis Parkman
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $3.00 The classic account of the westward movement. A Harvard graduate, Parkman has been criticized for his privileged white man's observations, but that is what I found most interesting. All perspectives help us see the whole picture. His descriptions are palpable
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 | Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A great way to experience Utah's golden landscape If you can get past this author's self-righteousness, his descriptions are right on the mark. Worthwhile.
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 | Democracy in America (Penguin Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville
Buy new: $9.10 / Used from: $5.20 A must read. Be prepared to squirm uncomfortably at his descriptions of us Americans.
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 | Discover America Diaries. 50 States, 50 States of Mind. Volume 1: East Coast to West Coast. New England, New York, and the Great Northern States by Priscilla Faith Rhodes
Buy new: $15.25 / Used from: $15.00 This is my diary while touring America via RV from 1997-2000.
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