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.
The Cambridge companion to American travel writing. ISBN 9780521678315. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.