The cambridge companion to american travel writing edited by alfred bendixen and judith hamera

the cambridge companion to american travel writing Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveler and the reading public These specially commissioned essays trace the journeys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period right up to the present They examine a wide range of responses to the problems posed by landscapes found both at home and abroad, from the Mississippi and the Southwest to Europe and the Holy Land Throughout, the contributors focus on the role played by travel writing in the definition and formation of national identity, and consider the diverse experiences of canonical and lesser-known writers This Companion forms an invaluable guide for students approaching this new, important, and exciting subject for the first time THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING EDITED BY ALFRED BENDIXEN Texas A&M University AND JUDITH HAMERA Texas A&M University cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao ˜ Paulo, Delhi Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 8ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521678315 c Cambridge University Press 2009 This publication is in copyright Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press First published 2009 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data The Cambridge companion to American travel writing / edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera p cm Includes bibliographical references (p 279) and index isbn 978-0-521-86109-0 – isbn 978-0-521-67831-5 (pbk.) Travelers’ writings, American – History and criticism American prose literature – History and criticism National characteristics in literature Travel in literature Americans–Foreign countries – Historiography Travel writing – History I Bendixen, Alfred II Hamera, Judith III Title ps366.t73c36 2008 810.9 355 – dc22 2008033445 isbn 978-0-521-86109-0 hardback isbn 978-0-521-67831-5 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate CONTENTS Notes on contributors Introduction: new worlds and old lands – the travel book and the construction of American identity judith hamera and alfred bendixen part i page vii confronting the american landscape Beginnings: the origins of American travel writing in the pre-revolutionary period philip gould 13 “Property in the horizon”: landscape and American travel writing william w stowe 26 New York to Niagara by way of the Hudson and the Erie christopher mulvey 46 The Mississippi River as site and symbol thomas ruys smith 62 The Southwest and travel writing martin padget 78 part ii americans abroad American travel books about Europe before the Civil War alfred bendixen 103 Americans in Europe from Henry James to the present william merrill decker 127 v contents Americans in the Holy Land, Israel, and Palestine hilton obenzinger 145 Americans in the larger world: beyond the Pacific coast christopher mcbride 165 10 South of the border: American travel writing in Latin America terry caesar 180 part iii social scenes and american sites 11 African American travel literature virginia whatley smith 197 12 American women and travel writing susan l roberson 214 13 Driving that highway to consciousness: late twentieth-century American travel literature deborah paes de barros Chronology Further Reading Index vi 228 244 279 289 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS a l f r e d b e n d i x e n is Professor of English at Texas A&M University and founder of the American Literature Association, which he currently serves as Executive Director His books include Haunted Women (1985), an edition of the composite novel The Whole Family (1986), “The Amber Gods” and Other Stories by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1989), and Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays (1992) He is also the associate editor of the Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature (1999) t e r r y c a e s a r has taught at Clarion University, Pennsylvania; Mukogawa University (Japan); and San Antonio College, Texas He is the author of Forgiving the Boundaries: Home as Abroad in American Travel Writing (1995) He has also published academic essays on the subject, as well as personal essays of his own travel to such places as Saudi Arabia, China, and Brazil He has co-edited with Eva Bueno a collection of essays on Latin American popular culture, Imagination Beyond Nation (1998) He is currently a columnist for the online journal, Inside Higher Ed w i l l i a m m e r r i l l d e c k e r is Professor of English at Oklahoma State University, where he teaches American literature and serves as Director of Graduate Programs in English He is the author of The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams (1990) and Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications (1998), and is a co-editor of and contributor to Henry Adams and the Need to Know (2005) p h i l i p g o u l d is Professor of English at Brown University, Rhode Island He is the author of Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century World (2003) and former President of the Society of Early Americanists He is currently working on a study of loyalist writing in Revolutionary America j u d i t h h a m e r a is Professor and Head of the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University She is the author of Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City (2007), the editor vii notes on contributors of Opening Acts: Performance in/as Communication and Cultural Studies (2006) and co-editor of The Handbook of Performance Studies (2006) She is also the recipient of the National Communication Association’s Lila Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies c h r i s t o p h e r m c b r i d e completed his PhD in English at the Claremont Graduate University, California, and is currently a member of the English faculty at Solano College, California He is the author of The Colonizer Abroad: American Writers on Foreign Soil, 1846–1912 (2004) as well as articles on American conjure stories, Herman Melville, William Dean Howells, and Mary Austin c h r i s t o p h e r m u l v e y is Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at the University of Winchester He is the recipient of awards from the Arts and Humanities Council, the British Academy, Cambridge University, and the University of Virginia His books include Anglo-American Landscapes (1983), Transatlantic Manners (1990), New York: City as Text (1990), Frank Thomas Morrell: Edwardian Entrepreneur (1994), Black Liberation in the Americas (2001), and Dominic St John Mulvey: London Irishman (2005) He is a General Editor with Henry Louis Gates and Maria Diedrich of The African American Research Library, for which he has created an electronic scholarly edition of the first African American novel, William Wells Brown’s Clotel, or the President’s Daughter (London, 1853) published online by Virginia University Press in March 2006 He is presently working on an electronic scholarly edition of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems (London, 1773) and a history of American transportation and culture He has recently established the Winchester University Press and is planning a Museum of the English Language for the City of Winchester h i l t o n o b e n z i n g e r teaches writing and American literature at Stanford University He is the author of American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania, as well as articles on American Holy Land travel, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and American cultural interactions with the Middle East His current project is Melting Pots and Promised Lands: Early Zionism and the Idea of America A recipient of the American Book Award, he has also published books of poetry, fiction, and oral history d e b o r a h p a e s d e b a r r o s is Associate Professor of English at Palomar College, California She is the author of Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women’s Road Stories (2004) m a r t i n p a d g e t lectures in American Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth He is the author of Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840–1935 (2004) and Photographers of the Western Isles (2008) His current research examines travel writing and the Southwest from the Spanish colonial era to the present day viii notes on contributors s u s a n l r o b e r s o n is Chair and Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University–Kingsville She is the author of Emerson in His Sermons: A Man-Made Self (1995) and the editor of Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation (1998) and of Defining Travel: Diverse Visions (2001) She is currently at work on a book-length study of travel and mobility in the writings of antebellum American women t h o m a s r u y s s m i t h is a Lecturer in American Literature at the University of East Anglia He is the author of River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain (2007), and is currently at work on a social and cultural history of New Orleans v i r g i n i a w h a t l e y s m i t h is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, where she teaches African American literature She has presented papers or been published on Richard Wright, W E B Du Bois, John A Williams, Ann Petry, Sarah Baartman, and others She published Richard Wright’s Travel Writings, an essay collection, in 2001 Currently, she is writing a biography on Richard Wright w i l l i a m w s t o w e is the Benjamin Waite Professor of English at Wesleyan University, Connecticut His work on travel writing began with Going Abroad: European Travel in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (1994) Recent publications include studies of landscape and leisure in Thoreau, Jewett, Fuller, Henry Ward Beecher, and Henry James, and an essay on literary aspects of the rural cemetery movement entitled “Writing Mount Auburn: Language, Landscape, and Place.” ix further reading 12 American women and travel writing Blunt, Alison and Gillian Rose, eds Writing Women and Space: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies New York and London: The Guilford Press, 1994 Fish, Cheryl Black and White Women’s Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2004 Foster, Shirley Across New Worlds: Nineteenth-Century Women Travellers and Their Writings New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990 Grewal, Inderpal Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996 Mills, Sara Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women’s Travel Writing and Colonialism London: Routledge, 1991 Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth and Ivette Romero-Cesareo, eds Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000 Poling-Kempes, Lesley The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West New York: Paragon, 1989 Roberson, Susan L Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998 Schriber, Mary Suzanne Writing Home: American Women Abroad, 1830–1920 Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997 Siegel, Kristi Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women’s Travel Writing New York: Peter Lang, 2004 Smith, Sidonie Moving Lives: 20th-Century Women’s Travel Writing Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001 Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt Traveling Economies: American Women’s Travel Writing Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007 Tinling, Marion, ed With Women’s Eyes: Visitors to the New World, 1775–1918 Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999 Wesley, Marilyn C Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women’s Travel in American Literature Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999 13 Driving that highway to consciousness: late twentieth-century American travel literature Clarke, Deborah Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in TwentiethCentury America Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 Genovese, Peter The Great American Road Trip: US 1, Maine to Florida New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999 Lackey, Kris RoadFrames: The American Highway Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997 McPherson, James Allen Railroad: Trains and Train People in American Culture New York: Random House, 1976 Paes de Barros, Deborah Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women’s Road Stories New York: Peter Lang, 2004 Primeau, Ronald Romance of the Road: The Literature of the American Highway Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1996 287 further reading Sachs, Wolfgang For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back into the History of Our Desires Trans Don Reneau Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992 Shaffer, Marguerite S See America First: Tourism and National Identity: 1880–1940 Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2001 288 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86109-0 - The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Index More information INDEX Abbey, Edward, 41: Desert Solitaire, 95 Account (Stork), 19 An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend David Brainerd (Edwards), 24 Adams, Henry, 130–31: The Education of Henry Adams, 131; and the European past, 130; The Letters of Henry Adams, 130; Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, 130; and the USSR, 135 Adler, Judith, 26 adventure narratives, 202 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 72, 171 Africa, 118, 132, 135, 202, 204–05, 220 back-to-Africa movement, 200 African Americans as entertainers, 138, 207 in Europe, 120–21, 136, 137–40 in Jerusalem, 211 in Mexico, 212 in Middle East, 157–58 in Nicaragua, 212–13 in Palestine, 157 in Russia, 208–11 as tourists, 211–13 travel writing by, 7–8, 24, 34, 197, 213 travel writing by women, 205–06, 218, 221 All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (Angelou), 140 “All it Took was a Road/Surprises of Urban Renewal” (Shange), 212–13 Along Martin Luther King (Tilove), 34–35 Amazon, 182–83 development of, 182 An American Feminist in Palestine: The Intifada Years (Gluck), 160 The American Fugitive in Europe; Sketches of Places and Peoples Abroad (Brown), 120, 206 American Indians: First Families of the Southwest (Huckel), 80 The American Rhythm (Austin), 92 American Scenery (Willis), 51 American travelers, 5–7, 140–42 disappointed with Palestine, 151 ignorance of, 180–81, 184, 190 and New York, 48 preconceptions of Palestine, 151 privileged, 127 see also tourism “Americanness,” 6, and the “expat,” and genre conventions, and landscape, Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club, 15–16 Angelou, Maya, 220, 224: All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, 140 anti-Semitism, 157 Anzaldua, ´ Gloria, 219 Ardener, Shirley, 217 Arendt, Hannah: Eichman in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, 158–61 art and artists, 108–09, 114 in the Southwest, 89, 91–94 Ashbridge, Elizabeth: Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, 22 Austin, Mary: The American Rhythm, 92; Land of Journey’s Ending, 92; The Land of Little Rain, 92 289 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86109-0 - The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Index More information index “The Author’s Account of Himself” (Irving), 107 autobiography, 2, 19, 21–22, 109 Autobiography (Franklin), 24 The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas (Stein), 133 Baldwin, James, 139–40: “Encounters on the Seine: Black Meets Brown,” 139; “Equal in Paris,” 139; essays, 139; Notes of a Native Son, 137, 207; “Stranger in the Village,” 139 Ballou, Maturin: Due South, 183 Barros, Deborah Paes de, 214 Bartlett, John Russell, 80 Bartol, Cyrus Augustus: Pictures of Europe Framed in Ideas, 119 Bartowski, Frances: Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates: Essays in Estrangement, Bartram, John, 19: Observations, 20–21 Bartram, William, 28: Travels, 35 Beats, the, 8, 229–31 and masculinity, 231 and women, 231 Beckwourth, James P.: The Life and Adventures of James P Beckwourth, A Mountaineer, Scout and Pioneer and Chief of the Crow Nations in Indiana, 201 Bellow, Saul: in Jerusalem, 158–59; To Jerusalem and Back, 153, 156 Bennett, Gwendolyn: “Diary,” 206 The Big Sea (Hughes), 138 Bissell, Richard Pike, 73 “black cowboys,” 201 Black Elk Speaks, 239 black “hole,” 198–99 Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos (Wright), 204–05 Blyden, Edward Wilmot: West Africa to Palestine, 211 Boas, Franz, 86 boom towns, 53 Boone, Sylvia Ardyn: West African Travels, 205 boosterism, 52 Borges, Jorge Luis, 62–64 Bourke, John Gregory: The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona, 86, 93 Bowden, Charles: Desierto: Memories of the Future, 95–96 Bowles, Paul, 135 Bowles, Samuel, 32–33 Brackenridge, H M.: A Voyage to South America, 183 Brief Account (Cuffe), 200 British literature, 106, 112 British people, 58, 106 British travel writing, 59, 93–94, 99, 180 British travelers, 17, 104–05 and the Mississippi River, 67–69 and New York, 48, 49, 53 and Niagara Falls, 58 British writers, 122–23 Brown, William Wells: The American Fugitive in Europe; Sketches of Places and Peoples Abroad, 120, 206 Bryant, William Cullen: Picturesque America, 30 Bryce, James, 185 Bryson, Bill: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, 240 Byrd, William: A Journey to the Land of Eden, 16; A Progress to the Mines, 16; Secret History of the Dividing Line, 16–17 Cain, Chelsea: Dharma Girl, 240 The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (Hulme and Youngs), Campbell, Robert: A Pilgrimage to my Motherland, 203 Campbell, William W.: The Life and Writings of DeWitt Clinton, 46 “Canal Journal” (Clinton), 46 canal technology, 57 cannibalism, 166 canoe narratives, 74 canoeing, 72, 74, 76 capitalism, 154 captivity narratives, 21, 216, 221 car culture, 228, 229, 242 Carver, Jonathan: Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, 19–20, 66 Cassady, Neal, 230–31, 232 Castanada, Pedro de, 83 ˜ The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around: Their Scenery, Legends, and History; With Sketches in Prose and Verse, by Cooper, Irving, Bryant, Cole, and others (Rockwell), 50 Charley (Charles le Chien), 237–38 290 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86109-0 - The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Index More information index Chasing Che (Symmes), 240 “Chautauqua” (Pirsig), 234 Chaves, Don Manuel, 90 “Chumming With a Savage” (Stoddard), 173 Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (Melville), 149, 150–52 Clark, William, 31–32, 37–38 see also Lewis and Clark expedition Clarke, James Freeman: Eleven Weeks in Europe, 119 class, 129, 216 Clemens, Samuel: see also Twain, Mark Clifford, James: Routes, Clinton, DeWitt: “Canal Journal,” 46 The Cloud Forest (Matthiessen), 189 Cole, Thomas, 29: “Essay on American Scenery,” 50–51 colonial travel writing, 13, 14–17 in verse, 17–18 color line, the, 138, 139, 212–13 A Colored Man Round the World (Dorr), 121, 211–12 The Colossus of Maroussi (Miller), 135 comedy, 58, 116, 141 Commerce of the Prairies (Gregg), 81 Consider and Hear Me: Voices from Israel and the Occupied Territories (Slapikoff), 160 Cooke, Ebenezer: “The Sot-Weed Factor; or, a Voyage to Maryland,” 17–18 Cooper, James Fenimore: Gleanings in Europe, 106; The Last of the Mohicans, 53 Cooper, Susan, 36: Rural Hours, 36–37 Cooper, Thomas: A Ride to Niagara, 54 corporeality, 7–8, 139, 197–98, 200, 207, 213 “Countee Cullen on French Courtesy” (Cullen), 207 counter-culture, 229, 234–35 Crow, Carol: Meet the South Americans, 185 The Cruise of the Snark (London), 175 cruises, 146 see also steamboats Crummell, Alexander: “The Relations and Duties of Free Colored Men in America to Africa,” 203 Cuba, 167–69 and imperialism, 169 Cuffe, Paul: Brief Account, 200 Cullen, Countee: “Countee Cullen on French Courtesy,” 207 Curtis, George William, 152 Cushing, Frank Hamilton: “My Adventures in Zuni,” 87; at Zuni Pueblo, ˜ 86–88 Dana, Richard Henry: To Cuba and Back: A Vacation Voyage, 167–69; Two Years Before the Mast, 167 Davis, Hassoldt: The Jungle and the Damned, 188–89 Davis, Richard Harding: Three Gringos in Central America, 185 Davison, Gideon Miner: Traveller’s Guide through the Middle and Northern States, and the Provinces of Canada, 48, 49, 52, 56 de Certeau, Michel, De Soto, Hernando, 64 Delany, Martin: Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party, 202 Desert Solitaire (Abbey), 95 Detter, Thomas: Nellie Brown, or the Jealous Wife with Other Sketches, 202 Dharma Girl (Cain), 240 “Diary” (Bennett), 206 Dickens, Charles, 59, 68, 69 Didion, Joan: essays, 235; “On the Road,” 235; Play It as It Lays, 235; and the self, 235 Dillard, Annie, 41 Dodge, Mabel (Mabel Dodge Luhan), 91 Domestic Manners of the Americans (Trollope), 68 domesticity, 218–19 see also home Domett, Alfred, 56 Donofrio, Beverly: Looking for Mary: The Blessed Mother and Me, 241; Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl, 241 Dorr, David F.: A Colored Man Round the World, 121, 211–12 Dorsey, George A.: Indians of the Southwest, 80 Dos Passos, John: In All Countries, 136; Journeys between Wars, 137 “A Dream of Venice” (Jarves), 117 drugs, 231, 232 Du Bois, W E B.: “Little Portraits of Africa,” 204; The Souls of Black Folk, 204; and the USSR, 136 Due South (Ballou), 183 291 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86109-0 - The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Index More information index Dutton, Clarence: Tertiary History of the ˜ Grand Canon District, 85–86 Dwight, Timothy, 31 Ebener, Charlotte, 224 Eddy, Daniel Clarke: Europa: Scenes and Society in England, France, Italy, and Switzerland, 113 education, 127, 130, 210, 221 The Education of Henry Adams (Adams), 131 Edwards, Jonathan: An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend David Brainerd, 24 Eichman in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Arendt), 158–61 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Wolfe), 232–33 Eleven Weeks in Europe (Clarke), 119 emancipatory travel literature, 24, 199–200 Emerson, Gloria: Gaza: A Personal Account of an Occupied Land, 160 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 67, 121: English Traits, 103, 122 “Encounters on the Seine: Black Meets Brown” (Baldwin), 139 Encounters with the Archdruid (McPhee), 34 England American views of, 61, 104–5, 107, 111, 120–23, 128, 133, 137, 200, 203, 219–20 see also British people English Traits (Emerson), 103, 122 Enlightenment, 181 entertainers, 138, 207 “Equal in Paris” (Baldwin), 139 Equatoria (Price and Price), 188–89 Equiano, Olaudah: The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, a Slave, Written by Himself, 197–98 Erie Canal, 46–47, 51–54, 57 “Essay on American Scenery” (Cole), 50–51 essays, 58, 139, 235 ethnography, 128 ethnology, 86–88 Europa: Scenes and Society in England, France, Italy, and Switzerland (Eddy), 113 Europe, 103, 180, 184 Europe Without Baedeker (Wilson), 137 European travel, 103–10, 127 by African Americans, 137–40 contemporary, 140–43 interwar and postwar years, 133–37 women travel writers, 219, 221 before World War I, 127–32 Evans, Estwick: Pedestrious Tour, 52 executions at Taos, 81–82 Exodus (film), 158 Exodus (Uris), 158 exoticism, 121 expatriates, 6, 134–35, 142 African American, 138, 208 Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon 1851–52 (Herndon), 182–83 Fauset, Jessie: “Yarrow Revisited,” 207 Feiler, Bruce: Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land through the Five Books of Moses, 155 Fergusson, Erna: Fiesta in Mexico, 187; Mexico Revisited, 187; Venezuela, 180 fiction, 2, 27, 28, 95, 105–06, 109, 123, 127, 134, 144, 171, 175, 178, 194, 215, 232, 236, 241 Fiesta in Mexico (Fergusson), 187 “Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort” (Wharton), 132 Filson, John: and “Daniel Boon,” 27 Fireside Travels (Lowell), 121 “First Authentic Mention of Niagara Falls” (Twain), 54, 58 Fisk, Pliny, 147 Flint, Timothy, 78 France, 64–65, 206–08 Franck, Harry: Roaming through the West Indies, 185 Frank, Waldo: South American Journey, 185–87 Franklin, Benjamin: Autobiography, 24 Free Soil Party, 168 Fr´emont, John Charles, 37 Fresh Gleanings (Mitchell), 110–11 Friedman, Thomas: From Beirut to Jerusalem, 160–62 From Beirut to Jerusalem (Friedman), 160–62 From the Heart of Europe (Matthiessen), 137 From New York City to Niagara Falls (Frommers), 57 frontier myth, 181 frontier narratives, 20–21, 200 Frontiers of Hope (Kallen), 156 292 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86109-0 - The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Index More information index Fuller, Margaret, 32, 221–22, 224 Fulton, Robert, 67 Garrard, Lewis: Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail, 81–82 Gaza, 158, 159–60 Gaza: A Personal Account of an Occupied Land (Emerson), 160 genre, and “Americanness,” 3–4 innovations in, and landscape, and travel abroad, and women travel writers, 215–16 geology, 84, 85 George, David, 199–200 George, Diana Hume, 29 Ghana, 140, 202, 204–05, 220 Gleanings in Europe (Cooper), 106 Gluck, Sherna Berger: An American Feminist in Palestine: The Intifada Years, 160 “Going South in Russia” (Hughes), 209–10 Gonzalez Echevarr´ıa, Roberto, 186 ´ “Gonzo Journalism,” 234 “Good-By, Jack” (London), 176 Grand Canyon, 83–86 The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), 236 Gregg, Josiah: Commerce of the Prairies, 81 guidebooks, 33–34, 47, 140, 216 Frommers, 57 to Southern states, 33 specialization of, 54 Hall, Basil, 53 Halswell, Grace: Journey to Jerusalem, 160 Hamilton, Dr Alexander: Itinerarium, 15–16 Hamilton, Thomas, 53 Hammon, Briton: The Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon, 24 Harris, Eddy, 72: Mississippi Solo, 74 Hawaiian Islands, 169–71, 174–77 and imperialism, 170–71, 175–76, 177 landowners in, 174 tourism in, 176 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 52, 121: as flaneur, ˆ 58; “My Visit to Niagara,” 55; Our Old Home, 122–23 Headley, Joel Tyler: Letters from Italy, 113–14 Hemingway, Ernest, 133–35: A Moveable Feast, 133–35; The Sun Also Rises, 134, 137 Hennepin, Louis, 65 Herndon, William: Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851–52, 182–83 Holley, Marietta, 106 Holy Land, 145–55, 211 geography of, 147 religious travelers to, 150 secular travelers to, 150 see also Gaza; Israel; Palestine; West Bank home, 8, 219–20 ancestral, 220 and family, 108 homoeroticism, 173 homosexuality, 173 Hopi Snake Dance, 93 Hough, Walter: The Moki Snake Dance, 93 The House of Pride (London), 174–77 houseboats, 72–74 Houston, James, “How Far from Here to Mexico?” (Thurman), 212 Howells, W D.: “Niagara, First and Last,” 54 Howells, W D., Mark Twain, Nathaniel S Shaler, et al.: The Niagara Book: A Complete Souvenir of Niagara Falls, Containing Sketches, Stories and Essays, 54 Hubbard, Harlan: Shantyboat, 73 Huckel, John F.: American Indians: First Families of the Southwest, 80 Hudson River School, 49, 50 Hudson River Valley, 46–47, 49–51, 57 Hughes, Langston: The Big Sea, 138; “Going South in Russia,” 209–10; I Wonder as I Wander, 136 Hulme, Peter, and Tim Youngs: The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, I Wonder as I Wander (Hughes), 136 identity, 1–2, 5, 26, 221–23, 228–29 national, 29–35, 214 personal, 27–29 ignorance, 180–81, 184, 190 293 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86109-0 - The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Index More information index imperialism, 177 in Cuba, 169 in the Hawaiian Islands, 170–71, 175–76 in the Marquesas Islands, 165, 166–67 neo-imperialism, 184–87 in South America, 183, 190 In All Countries (Dos Passos), 136 Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan (Stephens), 183 Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land (Stephens), 150 Indians of the Southwest (Dorsey), 80 industrial tourism, 94 The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim’s Progress (Twain), 6, 123, 146–47, 150–55 The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, a Slave, Written by Himself (Equiano), 197–98 Intifada, 160 Irving, Washington: “The Author’s Account of Himself,” 107; essays, 108; fiction, 109; The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., 107; A Tour on the Prairies, 103 islands, 165 Israel, 145–46, 155–62 “pioneers” in, 156 Italian Rambles (Jarves), 117 Italian Sights and Papal Principles, Seen Through American Spectacles (Jarves), 116 The Italian Sketch Book (Tuckerman), 110, 111–12 Itinerarium (Hamilton), 15–16 James, George Wharton: Arizona the Wonderland, 86 James, Henry: “Niagara,” 55–56; Portraits of Places, 55–56, 128–30 Jarves, James Jackson, 114–17: “A Dream of Venice,” 117; Italian Rambles, 117; Italian Sights and Papal Principles, Seen Through American Spectacles, 116; Parisian Sights and French Principles, Seen Through American Spectacles, 115–16; “Rome that Was and Is,” 117; “Second Series,” 115, 116 Jefferson, Thomas and the Mississippi River, 66 Jewish restoration, 149–50, 156 Jewish workers, 157 Johnson, Carlos, 213 Joliet, Louis, 64 Jonk, Clarence, 73 Journal (Knight), 14–15 The Journal of John Woolman (Woolman), 22 The Journal of Major George Washington (Washington), 18 Journals (Whitefield), 23 “A Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis, April 4, 1730” (Lewis), 17 A Journey Into America: Blue Highways (Least Heat-Moon), 239–40 Journey to Jerusalem (Halswell), 160 A Journey to the Land of Eden (Byrd), 16 Journeys between Wars (Dos Passos), 137 The Jungle and the Damned (Davis), 188–89 Kallen, Horace: Frontiers of Hope, 156 Kanakas, 171 Kemble, Fanny, 49 Kenneally, Thomas: The Place Where Souls Are Born, 94 Kentucky, 27 Kerouac, Jack, 231: On the Road, 229–31 Kesey, Ken, 231 Kinder, Gary, 182 King, Boston, 199–200 King, Clarence, 28, 37: Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, 38–39 The Kingdom by the Sea (Theroux), 141 Kirkland, Caroline, 28 Knight, Sarah Kemble: Journal, 14–15 knowledge, 184 Kolodny, Annette, 28 “Koolau the Leper” (London), 175–76 Kruse, Horst, 71 “Ktaadn” (Thoreau), 36 la Salle, Ren´e-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de, 64 Lacy, Leslie Alexander: The Rise and Fall of a Proper Negro, 205 Lahontan, Louis Armand, Baron de, 65 The Land and the Book (Thomson), 147–48 Land of Journey’s Ending (Austin), 92 The Land of Little Rain (Austin), 92 landscape, 4–5, 26–27, 58–59, 230 and “Americanness,” and genre, human inhabitants of, 31 and identity, 26, 27–35 294 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86109-0 - The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Index More information index and metaphysics, 40–43 of Palestine, 152 as property, 26 and providential capital, reading of, 147 and religion, 40–41 and spiritual capital, Landscape and Memory (Schama), 29 Landscape and Power (Mitchell), 27 The Last of the Mohicans (Cooper), 53 Latin America, 180–81 and commerce, 181–83 and neo-imperialism, 184–87 tourism in, 181, 187 see also Mexico; South America Latin Americans, 184 Lawrence, D H., 93–94 and the Hopi Snake Dance, 93 Least Heat-Moon, William, 72: and Ghost Dancing, 239; A Journey Into America: Blue Highways, 239–40; and the past, 239; PrairyErth, 29, 34 Lee, Andrea: Russian Journal, 210–11 leprosy, 174–76 Letters from Hawaii (Twain), 169–71 Letters from Italy (Headley), 113–14 The Letters of Henry Adams (Adams), 130 Lewis, Meriwether, 29, 31–32 travel journals, 37–38 see also Lewis and Clark expedition Lewis, Richard: “A Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis, April 4, 1730,” 17 Lewis and Clark expedition, 31–32, 66 Liberia, 203 The Life and Adventures of James P Beckwourth, A Mountaineer, Scout and Pioneer and Chief of the Crow Nations in Indiana (Beckwourth), 201 Life and Adventures of Nat Love (Love), 201 The Life and Writings of DeWitt Clinton (Campbell), 46 Life on the Mississippi (Twain), 70–72 Lighty, Kent, 72 Lighty, Margaret, 72 literary pilgrimage, 109, 123 “Little Portraits of Africa” (Du Bois), 204 London, Jack: The Cruise of the Snark, 175; “Good-By, Jack,” 176; The House of Pride, 174–77; “Koolau the Leper,” 175–76; People of the Abyss, 130; “The Sheriff of Kona,” 176 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, 110–17 Looking for Mary: The Blessed Mother and Me (Donofrio), 241 Lopez, Barry, 42 Lopez de Cardenas, Garc´ıa, 83 ´ ´ Lorde, Audre: “Notes from a Trip to Russia,” 210 Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon: A Tale of Southern Slave Life (Mattison), 224 Love, David, 39 Love, Nat, 201: Life and Adventures of Nat Love, 201 Lowell, James Russell: Fireside Travels, 121 Luhan, Mabel Dodge (Mabel Dodge), 91 Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 89–91 in Los Angeles, 90 publications of, 90 Lynch, William, 150 McGrath, Melanie: Motel Nirvana, 94 McKay, Claude: “Soviet Russia and the Negro,” 209 McKinsey, Elizabeth: Niagara Falls: Icon of the Sublime, 54 McMurtry, Larry: and introspection, 238–39; and nostalgia, 238; Roads, 238; and women, 238 McPhee, John, 37: Encounters with the Archdruid, 34; Rising from the Plains, 39–40 Maga Papers About Paris (Tuckerman), 112–13 Magoffin, Susan Shelby journal, 82–83 Marquesas Islands, 165–67 and imperialism, 165, 166–67 Marquette, Father Jacques, 64 Marrant, John, 199–200 Marryat, Frederick, 68 Martineau, Harriet, 57, 69: Retrospect of Western Travel, 50 Marvel, Ik.: see Mitchell, Donald G masculinity, 231 Massey, Doreen, 217 maternalism, 240–42 Matthews, Washington: The Night Chant: A Navaho Ceremony, 86 Matthiessen, F O.: From the Heart of Europe, 137 295 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86109-0 - The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Index More information index Matthiessen, Peter: The Cloud Forest, 189 Mattison, Hiram: Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon: A Tale of Southern Slave Life, 224 Mayes, Frances: Under the Tuscan Sun, 225 Meet the South Americans (Crow), 185 Melville, Herman, 149–50, 153: Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, 149, 150–52; Typee, 165–67 Merry Pranksters and Further, 231–33 metaphysics, 40–43 Mexican Americans, 90 Mexican Journal (Rodman), 188 Mexico, 79, 82–83, 187–88, 212 Mexico Revisited (Fergusson), 187 Middle East conflict, 160–62 US role in, 161 military narratives, 19 millennium, the, 148–49 Miller, Henry: The Colossus of Maroussi, 135; Tropic of Cancer, 135 Mississippi River, 62–64 and Britain, 66 communities along, 75 drownings in, 76 and empire, 63 floods on, 75 and France, 64–65 modes of transport on, 63 search for the source of, 66 Spain and, 64 steamboats on, 67 Mississippi River panoramas, 69 Mississippi Solo (Harris), 74 Mitchell, Donald G.: Fresh Gleanings, 110–11 Mitchell, W J T.: Landscape and Power, 27 mobility, 7–8, 217–18 The Moki Snake Dance (Hough), 93 Molokai, 175–76 Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (Adams), 130 A Month in England (Tuckerman), 112 Motel Nirvana (McGrath), 94 Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (King), 38–39 A Moveable Feast (Hemingway), 133–35 Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women’s Travel Writing (Smith), 7, 242 Muir, John, 41 mutability, 108 “My Adventures in Zuni” ˜ (Cushing), 87 “My Visit to Niagara” (Hawthorne), 55 Narrative (Prince), 208 The Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon (Hammon), 24 nationalism, 104, 105, 107 Native Americans, 4, 21, 24, 28, 31–33, 239–40 ceremonies of, 87, 93–94 cultures of, 82, 86 Six Nations, 21 of the Southwest, 79–81, 89, 91–94 Zuni Pueblo, 86–88 natural history, 19, 85 naturalists, 37 nature writing, 13, 95–96 Nellie Brown, or the Jealous Wife with Other Sketches (Detter), 202 neo-imperialism, 184–87 New Agers, 94 New Journalism, 8, 232 New Mexico, 78–79, 88–91 New York City, 46–49 “Niagara” (James), 55–56 “Niagara, First and Last” (Howells), 54 The Niagara Book: A Complete Souvenir of Niagara Falls, Containing Sketches, Stories and Essays (Howells, Twain, Shaler, et al.), 54 Niagara Falls, 46–47, 54, 57–58 Niagara Falls: Icon of the Sublime (McKinsey), 54 Nicaragua, 212–13 Nigeria, 202 The Night Chant: A Navaho Ceremony (Matthews), 86 Nordhoff, Charles, 177 Northwest Passage, 63, 66 Norton, Charles Eliot: Notes of Travel and Study in Italy, 114 “Notes from a Trip to Russia” (Lorde), 210 Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin), 137, 207 Notes of Travel and Study in Italy (Norton), 114 Now in Mexico (Strode), 188 Observations (Bartram), 20–21 Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party (Delany), 202 Ohio River, 27 Old Glory (Raban), 75 296 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86109-0 - The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Index More information index The Old Patagonian Express (Theroux), 190 “On the Road” (Didion), 235 On the Road (Kerouac), 229–31 oppression, 34, 114, 139, 174, 209, 222–23 oral narratives, 24, 92, 197, 201 the Other, 166–67 Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea (Longfellow), 110–17 Pagan Spain (Wright), 138 Palestine, 145–46, 147–48, 150–53, 155–62 desolation of, 153 landscape of, 152 shrines in, 152–53 see also Gaza; West Bank Palestine and Saints in Caesar’s Household (Powell), 157–58 Parisian Sights and French Principles, Seen Through American Spectacles (Jarves), 115–16 Parkman, Francis, 30 Parsons, Levi, 147 patriarchy, 222–23 Pattie, James Ohio: and the Grand Canyon, 83; The Personal Narrative of James O Pattie, 78–80 Paulding, James Kirke: A Sketch of Old England, by a New England Man, 104, 106 “Pearl-Hunting in the Pomotous” (Stoddard), 172 Pedestrious Tour (Evans), 52 Pencillings by the Way (Willis), 117 Penn, William: “Some Account of the Province of Pennsylvania in America,” 13, 14 People of the Abyss (London), 130 The Personal Narrative of James O Pattie (Pattie), 78–80 Pictures of Europe Framed in Ideas (Bartol), 119 Picturesque America (Bryant), 30 Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland (Williams), 95 Pike, Zebulon, 66 A Pilgrimage to my Motherland (Campbell), 203 The Pillars of Hercules (Theroux), 141 pioneer women, 214, 218, 219 letters by, 219 Pirsig, Robert: “Chautauqua,” 234; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, 234–35 The Place Where Souls Are Born (Kenneally), 94 plantation slavery, 168 Play It as It Lays (Didion), 235 poetry, 17–18 political travel narrative, 204 poor, the, 129–30 Porter, David, 165 Portraits of Places (James), 55–56, 128–30 Powell, Adam Clayton, Sr.: Palestine and Saints in Caesar’s Household, 157–58 Powell, John Wesley, 84 and the Grand Canyon, 83–85 PrairyErth (Least Heat-Moon), 29, 34 Pratt, Mary Louise, 182 Price, Richard, and Sally Price: Equatoria, 188–89 Primeau, Ronald: The Romance of the Road: The Literature of the American Highway, 242 Prince, Nancy, 221: Narrative, 208 A Progress to the Mines (Byrd), 16 promotional writing, 13, 25, 52 property, 26 prosperity, 229 prostitution, 186 psychobiographical, Pudd’nhead Wilson (Twain), 171 Quakerism, 22–23 The Question of Palestine (Said), 159 Raban, Jonathan: Old Glory, 75 race, 166–67, 171, 175–76 stereotypes of, 170 racism, 74, 168, 209–10 railroads, 88–89 Reconstruction, 170 recovered history, 142 Refuge (Williams), 28 “The Relations and Duties of Free Colored Men in America to Africa” (Crummell), 203 religion, 113, 115–17, 120 biblical truth, evidence of, 148, 155 clergymen, 119 and landscape, 40–41 missionaries, 23, 147 see also Holy Land Retrospect of Western Travel (Martineau), 50 A Ride to Niagara (Cooper), 54 297 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86109-0 - The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Index More information index Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl (Donofrio), 241 The Rise and Fall of a Proper Negro (Lacy), 205 Rising from the Plains (McPhee), 39–40 road narratives, 228–29 and the Beats, 229–31 and nostalgia, 236–40 and the self, 230, 235, 242 by women travel writers, 240–42 Roads (McMurtry), 238 Roaming through the West Indies (Franck), 185 Robinson, Edward, 147 Rockwell, Charles: The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around: Their Scenery, Legends, and History; With Sketches in Prose and Verse, by Cooper, Irving, Bryant, Cole, and others, 50 Rocky Mountains, 30 Rodman, Selden: Mexican Journal, 188 The Romance of the Road: The Literature of the American Highway (Primeau), 242 “Rome that Was and Is” (Jarves), 117 Roosevelt, Nicholas, 67 Roosevelt, Theodore: Through the Brazilian Wilderness, 7, 186 Routes (Clifford), Rowlandson, Mary, 221, 223: The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, 21 Run, River, Run (Zwinger), 37 Rural Hours (Cooper), 36–37 Russia, 208–11 Russian Journal (Lee), 210–11 Russian Journal (Steinbeck), 137 The Saddest Pleasure (Thomsen), 190–91 Said, Edward: The Question of Palestine, 159 Salvadore, Ricardo, 181 Santa Fe Trail, 81–83 Schama, Simon: Landscape and Memory, 29 Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 67 science, 35–40, 186, 189 scientific travel narrative, 186 Scott, Hazel: “What Paris Means to Me,” 208 The Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research (Steinbeck), 236 sea travel, 165, 170, 177 A Season of Stones: Living in a Palestinian Village (Winternitz), 160 “Second Series” (Jarves), 115, 116 Secret History of the Dividing Line (Byrd), 16–17 self-consciousness, 228–29 self-discovery, 230, 240 self-representation, 228 sentimentality, 154 Seven Years War, 18–19 sexuality, 223–25 see also homosexuality Shange, Ntozake: “All it Took was a Road/Surprises of Urban Renewal,” 212–13 Shantyboat (Hubbard), 73 shantyboats, 72–74 “The Sheriff of Kona” (London), 176 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (Irving), 107 A Sketch of Old England, by a New England Man (Paulding), 104, 106 Slapikoff, Saul: Consider and Hear Me: Voices from Israel and the Occupied Territories, 160 slave narratives, 24, 197–99, 216 “slave ship,” 198, 199, 202 slavery, 168–69, 197, 198–99, 202 attack on, 120–21 escape from, 199 and Europe, 139 and the Mississippi River, 68–69 Smith, Sidonie: Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women’s Travel Writing, 7, 242 The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona (Bourke), 86, 93 Snyder, Gary, 230–31 social change, 217 Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, 22 “Some Account of the Province of Pennsylvania in America” (Penn), 13, 14 “The Sot-Weed Factor; or, a Voyage to Maryland” (Cooke), 17–18 The Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois), 204 South America culture of, 186 and imperialism, 183, 190 intellectual commentaries on, 187 see also Latin America; Mexico 298 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86109-0 - The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Index More information index South American Journey (Frank), 185–87 South by Thunderbird (Strode), 184, 188 South Seas, 171–74 South-Sea Idylls (Stoddard), 171–74 Southwest, 79–81, 83–91, 93–99 and commerce, 89 development and exploitation of, 94–96 and ethnology, 86–88 iconography of, 89, 94 Native Americans of, 79–81, 89, 91–94 reconnaissance of, 80 US occupation of, 96 and writers and artists, 89, 91–94 The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (Rowlandson), 21 “Soviet Russia and the Negro” (McKay), 209 Soviet Russia (Wilson), 136 spiritual autobiography, 21–22 steamboats, 67, 71, 169–70 deck passage on, 69 and tourism, 67 Stein, Gertrude, 133: The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas, 133 Steinbeck, John, 236–38: The Grapes of Wrath, 236; and nostalgia, 237–38; and Rocinante, 237; Russian Journal, 137; The Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research, 236; Travels with Charley: In Search of America, 35, 236–38 Stephens, James K.: Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, 183 Stephens, John Lloyd: Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land, 150 stereotypes, 152, 168, 170 Stoddard, Charles Warren: “Chumming With a Savage,” 173; “Pearl-Hunting in the Pomotous,” 172; South-Sea Idylls, 171–74 Stone, I F.: Underground to Palestine, 158 Stone, William Leete, 51: “A Trip from New York to Niagara,” 47 Stork, William: Account, 19 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 220: Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, 119–20 “Stranger in the Village” (Baldwin), 139 Strode, Hudson: Now in Mexico, 188; South by Thunderbird, 184, 188 sugar industry, 170 The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway), 134, 137 Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (Stowe), 119–20 Symmes, Patrick: Chasing Che, 240 Taos, 81–82 Taos Trail, 81–83 Taylor, Bayard, 153: Views-a-Foot, 118–19 teacher figure, 230–31 terrorism, 142–43 ˜ Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District (Dutton), 85–86 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 68 Theroux, Paul, 141: The Kingdom by the Sea, 141; The Old Patagonian Express, 190; The Pillars of Hercules, 141 Thompson, Hunter S., 233–34 Thomsen, Moritz: The Saddest Pleasure, 190–91 Thomson, William M.: The Land and the Book, 147–48 Thoreau, Henry David, 40, 69, 73: “Ktaadn,” 36; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 35–36 Three Gringos in Central America (Davis), 185 Through the Brazilian Wilderness (Roosevelt), 7, 186 Thurman, Sue Bailey: “How Far from Here to Mexico?,” 212 Tilove, Jonathan: Along Martin Luther King, 34–35 To Cuba and Back: A Vacation Voyage (Dana), 167–69 To Jerusalem and Back (Bellow), 153, 156 A Tour on the Prairies (Irving), 103 tourism, 30, 176, 181, 187–88 industrial, 94 middle-class, 134 and steamboats, 67 Tousley, Albert, 74 travel writing critical attention to, 214–15 definition of, 2–3 and major authors, organizational challenges of, in verse, 17–18 Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates: Essays in Estrangement (Bartowski), 299 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86109-0 - The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Index More information index Traveller’s Guide through the Middle and Northern States, and the Provinces of Canada (Davison), 48, 49, 52, 56 Travels (Bartram), 35 Travels through the Interior Parts of North America (Carver), 19–20, 66 Travels with Charley: In Search of America (Steinbeck), 35, 236–38 “A Trip from New York to Niagara” (Stone), 47 Trollope, Frances: Domestic Manners of the Americans, 68 trope of movement, 231 Tropic of Cancer (Miller), 135 Truth, Sojourner, 218 Tuckerman, Henry T.: The Italian Sketch Book, 110, 111–12; Maga Papers About Paris, 112–13; A Month in England, 112 Tuesday Club (Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club), 15–16 Twain, Mark, 106: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 72, 171; “First Authentic Mention of Niagara Falls,” 54, 58; The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim’s Progress, 6, 123, 146–47, 150–55; Letters from Hawaii, 169–71; Life on the Mississippi, 70–72; and the Mississippi River, 62–63, 70–72; novels of, 171; Pudd’nhead Wilson, 171 Two Years Before the Mast (Dana), 167 Tyler, Royall: The Yankey in London, 104–05 Typee (Melville), 165–67 Under the Tuscan Sun (Mayes), 225 Underground to Palestine (Stone), 158 Uris, Leon: Exodus, 158 USSR, 135–36, 142 see also Russia Venezuela (Fergusson), 180 Views-a-Foot (Taylor), 118–19 A Voyage to Pagany (Williams), 135 A Voyage to South America (Brackenridge), 183 Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail (Garrard), 81–82 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Bryson), 240 Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land through the Five Books of Moses (Feiler), 155 Wallace, Susan on Santa Fe, 88 war correspondence, 133 Ward, Harriet, 218–19 warfare, 132, 136 Washington, George: The Journal of Major George Washington, 18 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Thoreau), 35–36 West Africa to Palestine (Blyden), 211 West African Travels (Boone), 205 West Bank, 158, 159–60 Wharton, Edith, 131–32: “Fighting France: from Dunkerque to Belfort,” 132 “What Paris Means to Me” (Scott), 208 Whitefield, George: Journals, 23 Williams, Terry Tempest, 42: Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland, 95; Refuge, 28 Williams, William Carlos: A Voyage to Pagany, 135 Willis, Nathaniel Parker: American Scenery, 51; Pencillings by the Way, 117 Wilson, Edmund: Europe Without Baedeker, 137; Soviet Russia, 136 Winternitz, Helen: A Season of Stones: Living in a Palestinian Village, 160 Wolfe, Tom: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 232–33 women settlers, 32 space of, 217–18 women travel writers, 7–8, 14–15, 22–23, 28–29, 32, 36–37, 41–42, 48–50, 68, 82, 91–94, 187–88, 214–17, 224, 242 African American, 205–06, 218 approaches to writing, 216 critical attention to, 215 and domesticity, 218–19 in Europe, 119–20, 131–32, 133–34, 219, 221 and genre, 215–16 and home, 219–20 and identity, 221–23 and maternalism, 240–42 in Middle East, 158, 160 300 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86109-0 - The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing Edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera Index More information index and mobility, 217–18 and other peoples, 221 and road narratives, 240–42 and sexuality, 223–25 and women’s place, 223 Woolman, John: The Journal of John Woolman, 22 World War I, 136 World War II, 136 Wright, Richard: Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos, 204–05; Pagan Spain, 138 writers in the Southwest, 91–94 The Yankey in London (Tyler), 104–05 “Yarrow Revisited” (Fauset), 207 Youngs, Tim: see Hulme, Peter, and Tim Youngs Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Pirsig), 234–35 Zwinger, Ann: Run, River, Run, 37 301 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org ... contributors Introduction: new worlds and old lands – the travel book and the construction of American identity judith hamera and alfred bendixen part i page vii confronting the american landscape... principles, and values The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, edited by Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs, demonstrated the vitality and importance of this body of writing, and provided invaluable judith hamera. .. up to the present They examine a wide range of responses to the problems posed by landscapes found both at home and abroad, from the Mississippi and the Southwest to Europe and the Holy Land