19th Century Popular Works continued 2

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Rafael Puig y Valls (1845-1920).

Viaje á América: Estados Unidos, Exposición Universal de Chicago, México, Cuba y Puerto Rico.
  Barcelona: Luis Tasso, 1894.



Rafael Puig y Valls worked to protect public forests in Spain at the end of the 19th century.  He was also involved in the 1888 Universal Exhibition in Barcelona.  He travelled to the United States in 1893 and visited the Chicago World’s Fair.  This picture features the original Ferris wheel, designed by George Ferris specifically for the Chicago World’s Fair.

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).

American Notes: Rudyard Kipling's West.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c1981.



American Notes is Rudyard Kipling’s caustic account of his travels in 1889 and 1890 through the United States from San Francisco to New York, part of a larger journey from India to London.  Kipling, just 24 years old, was a correspondent for the Allahabad Pioneer, and had already developed a reputation as a writer in India before his journey to London.  He published American Notes in 1891.  One of his most well-known works is The Jungle Book, originally published in 1894.

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Appleton's Companion Hand-book of Travel: Containing a Full Description of the Principal Cities, Towns, and Places of Interest, Together with Hotels and Routes of Travel through the United States and the Canadas.  Edited by T. Addison Richards.  New York, D. Appleton & Company; London, Trübner & Co., 1865.

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Pavel P. Svin'in (1788-1839).

A Russian Paints America: the Travels of Pavel P. Svin'in, 1811-1813.  Edited and introduced by Marina Swoboda & William Benton Whisenhunt.  Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008.


 

Svin'in arrived in Philadelphia in 1811 as part of a Russian diplomatic mission, traveling from Maine to Virginia until he left America in 1813.  A Russian Paints America is an edited volume of  Svin'in’s writings, including A Picturesque Voyage through The United States of America, published in 1815.  Svin'in, at times borrowing from other travel narratives of the time period, described American politics, religion, slavery, and landscapes, including Niagara Falls.

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