The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the Pacific

Whiting, Lilian, 1847-1942Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.1
Word count
506K words
Chapters
51

Tags

English Originals Travel Human GeographySublime SceneryTravelogueNatural WondersTravel ReflectionIllustrated GuideGeography ScienceExotic CultureAmerican WestWestern Landscape

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the Pacific by Lilian WhitingAuthor: Whiting, Lilian, 1847-1942,Language: English, Class: F786: United States local history: New Southwest. Colorado River, Canyon, and Valley, Release Date: Oct 9, 2017

Editor's review

Lilian Whiting's travelogue runs from Pike's Peak all the way to the Pacific coast, a text at the intersection of Southwestern local history and travel writing. Through the eyes of a late nineteenth-century traveler, the author records the towns, natural scenery, and local customs along the way; the prose carries the lyricism and observation characteristic of its era, making it for today's reader both a geographical ramble and a historical slice of social life. Its strength lies in turning the vast Western spaces into a continuous travel narrative that reads with an immersive sense of movement. As a public-domain eBook it is easy to obtain and serves well as supplementary reading in American Western history and travel literature. Note that its perspective is that of a traveler of a particular era and should not be taken as contemporary geographical or ethnographic material.

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Reading tips

  1. Read alongside a map, marking the place names on a modern map to build a spatial thread.
  2. Read in geographical sections, writing a few lines of impressions after each to aid review.
  3. Read in parallel with other American Western travel literature to compare observational perspectives across eras.

About the publisher

Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

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Contents

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FAQ

Is this book suitable as a travel guide? No. It was written in an earlier era and records the transport, towns, and scenery of its time, lacking the lodging, routes, and practical information contemporary travel requires. It is better read as historical travel literature than as a guide for a trip.
Which regions does the book mainly cover? As the title indicates, the content extends from the Pike's Peak area to the Pacific coast, covering the geographical scenery and town observations of the American Southwest and West along the way, in the manner of a regional travelogue.
What background knowledge is needed to read this book? A basic sense of American Western geography helps, such as the relative positions of the Rocky Mountains, the Southwestern states, and the Pacific coast. Some familiarity with the general background of nineteenth-century American westward development also makes the author's perspective easier to understand.

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About the author

Whiting, Lilian, 1847-1942 Author

Lilian Whiting (1847–1942) is an author whose biographical details are limited but whose works have a fairly clear character. Five of her books are represented here, spanning literary biography, travel writing and reflective essays. Her study The Brownings, Their Life and Art, together with Louise Chandler Moulton, Poet and Friend, shows a sustained interest in the lives of poets and in the relationship between life and creative work, written in a warm and thoughtful critical tone. In travel writing, The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the Pacific takes the American West as its subject, while Italy, the Magic Land turns to Italy, with attention to landscape and atmosphere. The Life Radiant is closer to an essay of a spiritual cast. Because public information is limited, her biographical details cannot be fully described; readers may learn about her writing through these works.