Buy this book on-line ALLEN, WALTER - Selected by with intro: : TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING - American Visitors to Britain and British Visitors to America in the Nineteenth CenturyLONDON.HEINEMANN,1971.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price -clip to dw/dj.8vo,332pp.
The Americans and the British have been scrutinising each other for over 300 years,and in this anthology,the author draws upon the findings of some 40 travellers,travelling in either direction. Amongst writers quoted are Fenimore Cooper, Emerson, Hawthorne, Henry James, Henry Adams, Marryatt Dickens, Thackeray, the Trollopes, Stevenson, Arnold and Wilde.The book reveals the stereo-types each has of the other.
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