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    Colonial American Travel Narratives

    Author Various
    Edited by Wendy Martin
    Notes by Susan Imbarato
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Aug 01, 1994 | 384 Pages | 9781440672880
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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    Four journeys by early Americans Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, and Dr. Alexander Hamilton recount the vivid physical and psychological challenges of colonial life. Essential primary texts in the study of early American cultural life, they are now conveniently collected in a single volume.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    Daniel Hahn is an award-winning translator, writer and editor. His 2026 books include If This Be Magic: the unlikely art of Shakespeare in translation, and translated novels from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru and Guatemala.

    Padma Viswanathan is author of three novels and a memoir, published in eight countries and shortlisted for the Pen Center USA Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and others, and has translated four books from Brazilian Portuguese. View titles by Various
    INTRODUCTION: MAPPING AMERICAN LIFE
    SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
    A NOTE ON THE TEXTS

    A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

    The Journal of Madam Knight

    The Secret History of the Line by William Byrd II

    The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton


    EXPLANATORY NOTES

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    Four journeys by early Americans Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, and Dr. Alexander Hamilton recount the vivid physical and psychological challenges of colonial life. Essential primary texts in the study of early American cultural life, they are now conveniently collected in a single volume.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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    Daniel Hahn is an award-winning translator, writer and editor. His 2026 books include If This Be Magic: the unlikely art of Shakespeare in translation, and translated novels from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru and Guatemala.

    Padma Viswanathan is author of three novels and a memoir, published in eight countries and shortlisted for the Pen Center USA Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and others, and has translated four books from Brazilian Portuguese. View titles by Various

    Table of Contents

    INTRODUCTION: MAPPING AMERICAN LIFE
    SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
    A NOTE ON THE TEXTS

    A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

    The Journal of Madam Knight

    The Secret History of the Line by William Byrd II

    The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton


    EXPLANATORY NOTES

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