num_pages: 320
description: This book, the first to trace the distinctive history of American travel writing, focuses on five great representatives of the John Ledyard who set out to walk around the world in the 1700s; John Lloyd Stephens, the father of Mayan archaeology; Bayard Taylor, the nineteenth-century wanderer who invented travel writing as a profession; Mark Twain, who focused on the haps and mishaps of the uncultivated tourist; and Henry James, from whose cosmopolitan accounts of other societies travel writing emerged as great art.
language: English
title: Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780-1910
titlecomplete: Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780-1910
genres: Travel, History
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Yale University Press