Synopses & Reviews
As a young man, Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843-1911), the Cambridge-educated Radical politician who went on to campaign for votes for women and labourers, legalisation of trade unions, and universal schooling, spent two years touring the English-speaking world. This two-volume illustrated account of his journey was published in 1868, the year in which he first entered Parliament. Volume 1 describes his travels across the United States, where he arrived aboard The Saratoga, landing at Chesapeake Bay in Virginia on 20 June 1866. Dilke explored the reconstructing American South, the bustling eastern seaboard, the vast plains of the Midwest, the magnificent Rocky Mountain range, and the diverse landscape and peoples of California before venturing south into Mexico and departing for Polynesia and the Pacific islands. He thoughtfully discusses the legacy of British colonial culture in America, and its continuing diffusion via America to other parts of the world.
Synopsis
A young Cambridge graduate tours the English-speaking world and describes Victorian colonial culture and the British legacy in America.
Synopsis
Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843-1911), the Cambridge-educated reformist politician, spent two years touring the world after his graduation from university. Volume 1 of this illustrated account of his journey, published in 1868, describes his travels across the United States and onward to Mexico and the Pacific islands.
Table of Contents
Preface; Part I: 1. Virginia; 2. The Negro; 3. The south; 4. The empire state; 5. Cambridge commencement; 6. Canada; 7. University of Michigan; 8. The pacific railroad; 9. Omphalism; 10. Letter from Denver; 11. Red India; 12. Colorado; 13. Rocky Mountains; 14. Brigham Young; 15. Mormondom; 16. Western editors; 17. Utah; 18. Nameless Alps; 19. Virginia city; 20. El Dorado; 21. Lynch law; 22. Golden city; 23. Little China; 24. California; 25. Mexico; 26. Republican or Democrat; 27. Brothers; 28. America; Part II: 29. Pitcairn Island; 30. Hokitika; 31. Polynesians; 32. Parewanui Pah; 33. The Maories; 34. The two flies; 35. The Pacific; Appendix.