Introduction : New worlds and old lands : the travel book and the construction of American identity / Judith Hamera and Alfred Bendixen --

Beginnings : the origins of American travel writing in the pre-revolutionary period / Philip Gould --

"Property in the horizon" : landscape and American travel writing / William W. Stowe --

New York to Niagara by way of the Hudson and the Erie / Christopher Mulvey --

The Mississippi river as site and symbol / Thomas Ruys Smith --

The Southwest and travel writing / Martin Padget --

American travel books about Europe before the Civil War / Alfred Bendixen --

Americans in Europe : Henry James to the present / William Merrill Decker --

Americans in the Holy Land, Israel, and Palestine / Hilton Obenzinger --

Americans in the larger world : beyond the Pacific coast / Christopher McBride --

South of the border : American travel writing in Latin America / Terry Caesar --

African American travel literature / Virginia Whatley Smith --

American women and travel writing / Susan L. Roberson --

Driving that highway to consciousness : late twentieth-century American travel literature / Deborah Paes de Barros.