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.