Seeing new worlds : Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century natural science / Laura Dassow Walls.

The romance of China : excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776-1876 / John Rogers Haddad.

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Seeing new worlds : Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century natural science / Laura Dassow Walls.

The romance of China : excursions to China in U.S. culture, 1776-1876 / John Rogers Haddad.