American Travellers Abroad - Hardcover

Smith, Harold Ivan

9780810835542: American Travellers Abroad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810835541 ISBN 13: 9780810835542

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 1999

It wasn't just the finishing trip performed by wealthy American men and women, but also the activity of numerous other Americans of many different races, classes, and occupations: the journey outside the United States to destinations in Britain, Italy, France, Germany and other countries throughout the world. Included are familiar authors and famous works by such authors as Mark Twain and Henry James, as well as the less well-known travel books that serve as a companion to America's memory.

American Travellers Abroad is a bibliography of travel literature published before 1900. Upon publication of the first edition in 1969, it showcased the importance of travel upon the notion of "national identity," and the impact of travel literature upon writing in America. This current edition is a significant expansion of that important first edition, and represents over 2000 titles, many discovered in the years since its original publication. The book is organized alphabetically by author, and provides full bibliographic information about each title. The annotations summarize each title concisely and note significant features. An author index is organized by occupation and by the country visited.

This unique tool assists the researcher, teacher, or historian who needs to find and become familiar with the wide breadth of travel literature, whose importance has only begun to gain academic and popular attention in recent years. This updated classic will be a valuable addition to all libraries.

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About the Author:

Harold F. Smith (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University) has held positions as Library Director and archivist at Park College in Missouri, and is currently Librarian Emeritus.

Review:

Each entry includes the author's name (and dates where available) and give the work's title and subtitle, place of publication, publisher imprint, date, and pagination. Annotations of varying length follow bibliographic descriptions. The final line of each entry is a parenthetical notation listing the author's occupation and the countries or regions described in the book. (AB Bookman's Weekly)

Libraries that own the first edition and all libraries with travel collections will want this update. (CHOICE)

Organized alphabetically by author and providing full bibliographic information, the entries capture the diversity of both the journeys themselves and those who undertook them. (American Literature)

...well written. (College & Research Libraries)

This is a useful tool for the researcher, historian, scholar, and interested traveler who wants firsthand accounts of faraway places with strange-sounding names. Research institutions and large travel collections should reserve a place for this book. (American Reference Books Annual)

Demonstrates that US travelers abroad were not limited to the rich and privileged even in previous centuries, by presenting over 2,000 titiles with full bibliographic citations and brief evaluative descriptions. (Reference and Research Book News)

The annotations are brief and informative. Academic libraries will want this work for their collections. (Reference and User Services Quarterly)

It continues to be a valuable tool...The indices of travel destinations and occupations of travelers are splendid navigational tools... (Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography)

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