American Travellers Abroad

Demonstrates that US travelers abroad were not limited to the rich and privileged even in previous centuries, by presenting over 2,000 titles with full bibliographic citations and brief evaluative descriptions. Arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by place and author's occupation. Updated from the 1969 edition with titles subsequently discovered. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Nwanna provides comprehensive information on travel to more than 170 countries, and addresses diverse concerns regarding personal safety, finances, illness, birth and marriage, and more.

This beautifully illustrated, fact-filled book takes you on a trip around the United States and Canada. Presenting experiences in villages, neighborhoods, and regions that cover the breadth of North America's great global diversity - Chinatowns and Little Italys, of course, but also Polish, German, French, Russian, and Japanese enclaves - as well as landscapes that make you think you could very well be in New Zealand or Provence or Tuscany.

Surveys the varied impressions and reactions of American travelers to life abroad. Based on letters, diaries, journals and travel books.

Considers legislation to establish U.S. Travel Commission.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.