Harold F. Smith (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University) has held positions as Library Director and archivist at Park College in Missouri, and is currently Librarian Emeritus.
Each entry includes the author's name (and dates where available)
and give the work's title and subtitle, place of publication,
publisher imprint, date, and pagination. Annotations of varying
length follow bibliographic descriptions. The final line of each
entry is a parenthetical notation listing the author's occupation
and the countries or regions described in the book.
*AB Bookman's Weekly*
Libraries that own the first edition and all libraries with travel
collections will want this update.
*CHOICE*
Organized alphabetically by author and providing full bibliographic
information, the entries capture the diversity of both the journeys
themselves and those who undertook them.
*American Literature*
...well written.
*College & Research Libraries*
This is a useful tool for the researcher, historian, scholar, and
interested traveler who wants firsthand accounts of faraway places
with strange-sounding names. Research institutions and large travel
collections should reserve a place for this book.
*American Reference Books Annual*
Demonstrates that US travelers abroad were not limited to the rich
and privileged even in previous centuries, by presenting over 2,000
titiles with full bibliographic citations and brief evaluative
descriptions.
*Reference and Research Book News*
The annotations are brief and informative. Academic libraries will
want this work for their collections.
*Reference and User Services Quarterly*
It continues to be a valuable tool...The indices of travel
destinations and occupations of travelers are splendid navigational
tools...
*Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography*
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