Colonial American travel narratives
By: edited and with an introduction by Wendy Martin ; with explanatory notes by Susan Imbarrato and Deborah Dietrich.
Contributors: Martin, Wendy, 1940-
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Description: Presents the travel narratives of four seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American colonists, which relate such experiences as capture by Native Americans and survey of a disputed boundary line. Includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and an extensive selected bibliography. Contains "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" as recommended in the Wheatley edition of CCSS Curriculum Maps for Grade 11.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xiv-xxx).