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Anglo-American Travelers
2017
Overview
Until the end of the Seven Years’ War, which opened to the British the vast regions to which the French had earlier laid claim, the genre of the travel account in Indian territory was dominated by French authors.¹ Accounts of trips made by travelers from the English provinces are not lacking, especially from the beginning of the eighteenth century on, but most of the travel they chronicle took place near the coast, not beyond the “frontier,” and involved the kind of discovery of British colonial society discussed in part 1. Before the middle of the century accounts of journeys beyond
