North America

Though he is best remembered as a novelist, Anthony Trollope was also a prolific writer of nonfiction works, completing biographies of William Makepeace Thackeray, Cicero, and Lord Palmerston along with a fascinating series of works chronicling his travel excursions. Spanning a period from 1859 to 1878, Trollope's travelogues provide a vivid mid-nineteenth-century perspective on places as far-flung as Australia and New Zealand, the West Indies and Central America, South Africa, and Iceland. Published in 1862, Trollope's North America offers striking detail of his travels and observations on the politics and culture of the United States and Canada at a momentous time in American history: the height of the Civil War. Follow Trollope as he observes the marvel of Niagara Falls, the horror of Mississippi River gunboats, and numerous other sites and scenes while also providing absorbing social and political commentary during this consequential period.