America, Volume 6
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers studying American local history and nineteenth-century travel writing
- History students who need free primary sources in English
- English-language readers interested in old records of North American towns and landscapes
- Librarians or resource centers acquiring public-domain English texts
Not a good fit for
- General readers seeking a Chinese translation
- Beginners wanting a systematic general history or a modern overview of America
- Readers of literary entertainment who expect a plot-driven narrative
Reading tips
- Start with the table of contents and introductory notes to identify the regions covered, then choose chapters accordingly
- Keep a map of North America at hand to trace place names and mark your reading route
- Compare the descriptions with present-day local sources to appreciate changes over a century
- Skip around by topic rather than reading straight through, and take excerpt notes
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Joel Cook (1842–1910) was an American journalist, writer and politician. Born in Philadelphia, he edited the Philadelphia Public Ledger, worked as the American correspondent for The Times of London, and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1907. As a writer he focused on travel and regional description, with a documentary, closely observed style. His representative works include England, Picturesque and Descriptive and the multi-volume America, Picturesque and Descriptive. The library holds seven of his works, most of them concerned with landscapes and cultures in Europe and America, combining the immediacy of travel writing with a systematic, chronicle-like quality that offered contemporary readers a fairly comprehensive picture of distant places. Cook died in Philadelphia in 1910.
