Pacific passages : an anthology of surf writing /

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The Erie Canal reader, 1790-1950 /

Table of Contents: “…Charles Giles -- Travels in North America / Basil Hall -- Men and manners in America / Thomas Hamilton -- Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope -- Retrospect of Western travel / Harriet Martineau -- "The Canal boat" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The poetry of travelling in the United States / Caroline Gilman -- "The canal boat" / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville -- "The aged pilot man" / Samuel L. Clemens -- "The raging canal" ; popular song -- Their wedding journey / W.D. …”
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The Essex and the whale : Melville's Leviathan library and the birth of Moby-Dick /

Blacklegs, card sharps, and confidence men : nineteenth-century Mississippi River gambling stories /

Table of Contents: “…Lewis -- The gamblers outwitted / Emerson Bennett -- From The confidence-man: his masquerade / Herman Melville -- From Clotel, or, The president's daughter / William Wells Brown -- From Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb / Henry Bibb -- From The white slave, or, Memoirs of a fugitive / Richard Hildreth -- From Hatchie, the guardian slave, or, The heiress of Bellevue / Warren T. …”
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Blacklegs, card sharps, and confidence men : nineteenth-century Mississippi River gambling stories /

Table of Contents: “…Lewis -- The gamblers outwitted / Emerson Bennett -- From The confidence-man: his masquerade / Herman Melville -- From Clotel, or, The president's daughter / William Wells Brown -- From Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb / Henry Bibb -- From The white slave, or, Memoirs of a fugitive / Richard Hildreth -- From Hatchie, the guardian slave, or, The heiress of Bellevue / Warren T. …”
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London : a literary anthology /