Author:
Rugoff, Milton, 1913-2007, ed.
Imprint:New York : Simon and Schuster, 1960.
Description2 v. : ill. ; 25cm.
Note:Italy: forks, fans and courtesans (1608) / Thomas Coryat -- Italy: glimpses on a wedding tour (1784-87) / Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi -- France: the eve of the revolution (1787-90) / Arthur Young -- Elegance and decay: a glimpse of Portuguese high society (1787-88 and 1794-95) / William Beckford -- The strange ways of Irishmen and Englishmen (1799-1803) / Abu Taleb Khan -- London: plum pudding and pugilists (1810-11) / Louis Simond -- The English aristocracy: a rake's report (1826-28) / Prince Hermann Pückler-Muskau -- Musketeer in the Alps (1832) / Alexandre Dumas -- From a bullfight in Madrid to the fair at Nizhni Novgorod (1840 and 1858-60) / Théophile Gautier -- Roman carnival and other scenes (1844-45) / Charles Dickens -- Men and manners in wild Wales (1854) / George Barrow -- The schoolroom, the iron mills and the slums (1859-71) / Hippolyte Taine -- Living on the Grand Canal (1861-65) / William Dean Howells -- Venice: the color and the sound (1869-82) / Henry James -- Scandinavia: smörgåsbord and communal steam baths (1871-78) / Paul du Chaillu -- The fine art of seeing an Alpine sunrise (1878) / Mark Twain -- Dining in Paris: an Englishman's report (1878-79) / George Augustus Sala -- To the magnetic south: a flight from Switzerland (1912-13) / D. H. Lawrence -- Leningrad and a hospital in Odessa (1935) / Edmund Wilson -- Bosnian Jews, a magician as bishop, and a woman who questioned her fate (1937) / Rebecca West -- Trapani: the mystery of Easter (1954) / Herbert Kubly -- Young love in Moscow (1957) / Santha Rama Rau -- A landfall in the Bahamas (1492-93) / Christopher Columbus -- Conquistador (1517-21) / Bernal Díaz del Castillo -- Capture of an Inca king (1530-34) / Francisco Pizarro -- The Amazon women (1541-42) / Francisco de Orellana -- English freebootera and Spanish terror (1567-82) / Miles Philips -- Ladies of Lima, Vicuñas and coca chewers (1838-42) / Johann Jakob von Tschudi -- Journey to a Mayan Ruin (1839-40) / John Lloyd Stephens -- Street cries, nuns and gamblers (1839-42) / Frances Calderón de la Barca -- Down the Amazon (1851-52)/ William Lewis Herndon -- Trial by pain (1948-50) / Alain Gheerbrant -- Visit to a virgin coast (1584) / Philip Amadas, Arthur Barlow -- Life among the Hurons (1604-18) / Samuel de Champlain -- Early Americans: a close-up (1748-51) / Peter Kalm -- Pioneer life (1801-3) / François André Michaux -- A note on the not so noble savage (1804-6) / Merriwether Lewis, William Clark -- The Santa Fé Trail (1831-40) / Josiah Gregg -- Self-torture and wild horses (1832-39) / George Catlin -- Broadway, slums, and a steamboat on the Ohio (1842) / Charles Dickens -- Boston Brahmin at a buffalo hunt (1846) / Francis Parkman -- Gold-rush fever (1849-51) / J. Goldsborough Bruff -- New York streetcars and western manners (1861-62) / Anthony Trollope -- A stagecoach on the prairie and the camel that ate the overcoat (1861-65) / Mark Twain -- Saratoga: "The democratization of elegance" (1870-82) / Henry James -- Lady in the wild west (1873) / Isabella Bird Bishop -- Skyscrapers, stockyards and a football game at Harvard (1893-94) / Paul Bourget -- Florida (1946-52) / Alistair Cooke -- Eskimo interlude (1819-27) / William Edward Parry -- North of Siberia (1878-79) / Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld -- Wanderer in Greenland (1907-34) / Peter Freuchen -- Doing as the Eskimos do (1908-12) / Vilhjalmur Stefansson -- Fortitude (1910-12) / Robert Falcon Scott -- Life in an igloo (1934-49) / Roger P. Buliard.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliography and index.
Note:LIBRARY HAS: volume 2 only.
