The second volume of Trollope’s North America, published in 1862, is major piece of travel writing, as the author writes with rare compassion about his travels to Washington D.C...more

The first of Trollope's studies of America, its institutions and its people. Here the author travels from Boston up to Canada, and down through the Old Northwest, to New York, P...more

An autobiographical account of Charles Dickens's six-month tour of the United States. An eagerly awaited title upon publication in 1842, American Notes caused immediate outrage ...more

Wells went to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century determined to find out what not what America was or had been, but to contemplate the future of America, of i...more