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Travel Narratives

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1. What can we learn from travel narratives?

2. How do you analyze a travel narrative?

3. What are some limitations of travel narratives?

4. How do you analyze John Ledyard’s Journal?

5. How does Ledyard describe the “natives” he encounters?

6. How do you teach students to analyze travel narratives?

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