{"product_id":"adventure-journalism-in-the-gilded-age-9781476680552","title":"Adventure Journalism in the Gilded Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   These new essays tell the stories of daring reporters, male and female, sent out by their publishers not to capture the news but to make the news--indeed to achieve star billing--and to capitalize on the Gilded Age public''s craze for real-life adventures into the exotic and unknown. They examine the adventure journalism genre through the work of iconic writers such as Mark Twain and Nellie Bly, as well as lesser-known journalistic masters such as Thomas Knox and Eliza Scidmore, who took to the rivers and oceans, mineshafts and mountains, rails and trails of the late nineteenth century, shaping Americans'' perceptions of the world and of themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Having reported on modern-day adventurers and my own explorations from ninety countries, to both Poles, and across the planet's one giant ocean, I wish I'd had a copy of \u003ci\u003eAdventure Journalism in the Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e in my backpack during my own travels; it would have fattened my experiences, both here at home  and to the most remote corners of the globe. Bravo!!” —Jon Bowermaster, 6-time grantee of the \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e Expeditions Council, author of \u003ci\u003eCrossing Antarctica, Descending the Dragon: My Journey Down the Coast of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAdventure Journalism in the Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoroughly researched examination of journalistic exploits we haven't seen in decades. It makes me long for the days where reporters could take their readers on wild treks to places beyond their imagination and speaks to the types of stories we all want to tell and the influence we all want to have. This book will provide context and intrigue for the reporters of today and the future.” —Paula Reed Ward, a member of the \u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e's 2019 Pulitzer Prize winning team for breaking news, author of \u003ci\u003eDeath by Cyanide: The Murder of Dr. Autumn Klein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Katrina Quinn, Mary Cronin, Lee Jolliffe and the chapter authors of \u003ci\u003eAdventure Journalism in the Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e take a fresh new look at the extraordinary influence of the travel writers of the nineteenth century, who made the American frontier accessible and provided a window into the most distant and remote places in the world. These journalists made travel, itself, exciting and a visit to even the most inhospitable places, a great 'adventure.' The book editors and chapter authors are all fine writers themselves and the remarkable characters who were the adventure journalists of the Gilded Age come alive in the pages of this book.” —David B. Sachsman, director of the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword\t\u003cbr\u003eMichael S. Sweeney\u003cbr\u003ePreface\t\u003cbr\u003eKatrina J. Quinn\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\t\u003cbr\u003eKatrina J. Quinn, Lee Jolliffe and Mary M. Cronin\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Adventures at Home\u003cbr\u003eAdventure Reporting from America's Western Rails and Trails, 1860–1880\t\u003cbr\u003eKatrina J. Quinn\u003cbr\u003eFrom Gotham to the Golden Gate: Promoting American Expansion, Exceptionalism, and Nationhood by Railroad\t\u003cbr\u003eMary M. Cronin\u003cbr\u003e\"Into the Dark Abyss\": Gilded Age Adventure Reporting from the Mines of America\t\u003cbr\u003eKatrina J. Quinn\u003cbr\u003eFloat Along the Frontier: Down the Missouri with Captain Paul Boyton, James Creelman, and the New York Herald\t\u003cbr\u003eCrompton Burton\u003cbr\u003e\"An Almost Undiscovered Country\": Frank Leslie's 1890 Alaska Expedition and the Tradition of Gilded Age Adventure Journalism\t\u003cbr\u003eMary M. Cronin\u003cbr\u003eTeresa Howard Dean: Reporting Tragedies and Triumphs from the American West\t\u003cbr\u003ePaulette D. Kilmer\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Globetrotters\u003cbr\u003eThomas Wallace Knox: A Celebrity Journalist's Travel and Adventure in Siberia and China\t\u003cbr\u003eWilliam E. Huntzicker\u003cbr\u003e\"Burning of the Clipper Ship Hornet at Sea\" and Other Reports from Hawaii: Mark Twain's Adventure Reporting from the Sandwich Islands\t\u003cbr\u003eJennifer E. Moore\u003cbr\u003e\"The First Bold Adventure in the Cause of Humanity\": Henry Morton Stanley's Adventure Journalism in Africa\t\u003cbr\u003eJames E. Mueller\u003cbr\u003eTo Better See the World: The Adventure Journalism of Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore\t\u003cbr\u003eJames E. Mueller\u003cbr\u003e\"Mr. Bennett's Expedition\": The New York Herald's Arctic Adventure\t\u003cbr\u003eCrompton Burton\u003cbr\u003e\"Alive, but wiser from our experience\": Nellie Bly's Adventure Reporting from Mexico and Around the World\t\u003cbr\u003eJack Breslin and Katrina J. Quinn\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\t\u003cbr\u003eLee Jolliffe\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040472105303,"sku":"9781476680552","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476680552.jpg?v=1750946864","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/adventure-journalism-in-the-gilded-age-9781476680552","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}