Contents

Editor’s Note on the Text

Preface

Acknowledgments

 

1 - Prologue

2 - Auguste Levasseur

3 - Karl Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

4 - Noah Ludlow

5 - James Stuart

6 - Anne Royall

7 - Thomas Hamilton

8 - Sol Smith

9 - George Featherstonhaugh

10 - Harriet Martineau

11 - P. T. Barnum

12 - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro

13 - George Lewis

14 - Charles Lyell

15 - Alexander Mackay

16 - Francis and Theresa Pulszky

17 - Fredrick Law Olmsted

18 - Robert Everest

19 - James Redpath

20 - Robert Russell

21 - Amelia Murray

22 - John Shaw

23 - Carlton Holmes Rogers

24 - James Stirling

25 - William Kingsford

26 - Charles Mackay

27 - Thomas Low Nichols

Epilogue - William Howard Russell

 

Index

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