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After the war of 1812 British travelers poured across the Atlantic. In Upstate Travels, Roger M. Haydon brings together forty-two excerpts from the travelers' accounts between 1815 and 1845. In his introduction and prefaces to each selection he describes the kinds of tourists of visited and how they traveled, assesses the general accuracy of their accounts, and provides pertinent background information.
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Travis Scott
reviewed Upstate travels on June 06, 2018
Upstate travels
This book ended up being a valuable source for my history thesis, so I'm more than a little bit biased.
Adriaen Van der Donck was setting himself up as the next governor of New Amsterdam. He had returned to the Netherlands after eight years in the colony to persuade the States General to take over (up until that point, the Dutch West India Company was doing a terrific job of botching the whole thing.) Description was meant to attract new colonists to the sparsely populated Dutch colony, which extended from Hartford to Albany. Van der Donck describes the natural history of the region and Native customs. It's a valuable primary source but definitely needs to be read with secondary context (I recommend Shorto's Island at the Center of the World.) I'm surprised Charles Gehring, who's translated pretty much everything else from the New York State Library's Dutch archives didn't work on this directly, but the translation feels honest to me.
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