Author Description

Presents the travel narratives of four seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American colonists, which relate such experiences as capture by Native Americans and survey of a disputed boundary line. Includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and an extensive selected bibliography. Contains "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" as recommended in the Wheatley edition of CCSS Curriculum Maps for Grade 11.