Travels in the United States, etc. during 1849 and 1850

Engaging and informative, Lady Emmeline's journals describe her mid-nineteenth century travels and her impressions of America and its people.

Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (Author)

9781108003360, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 September 2009

368 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.71 kg

Published in 1851, Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley's account of her travels through the Americas during the mid nineteenth century represents an early example of the travel writing genre. The United States was becoming an increasingly popular tourist destination for Europeans at this time, and Lady Emmeline's writings present a quintessentially British impression of America and its people. Volume II of this three-volume work follows on from Lady Emmeline's experiences in the United States as recounted in volume I, taking the reader on a journey through Mexico. Written in an engaging and conversational tone, the volumes are both informative and entertaining, fulfilling the author's aim to 'amuse' with 'the gossip of travel.'

1. Vera Cruz by moonlight
2. The Mexicans
3. Mexico when first conquered
4. The cathedral of Mexico
5. Mexico
6. General Herrera, the President of Mexico and the American minister
7. Intention to cross the Isthmus of Panama
8. Departure for Vera Cruz
9. Departure from Puebla
10. Departure from Peroté
11. Arrival at Havana
12. Performance of a military band in the Grand Square
13. Arrival at Panama
14. The river Chagres
15. Gorgona
16. Arrival at Panama
17. The journey to Panama resumed.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]