Table of Contents	6
	Acknowledgements	8
	Introduction	10
	Stygian Suitcases	22
	Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Voyage	36
	Wied’s Reise in das innere Nord-America and the Capabilities of the Ethnographic Travelogue	66
	German Scientists and Artists Exploring the Trans Mississippi West	84
	Louisa Catherine Adams	100
	Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Wondrous Stream Riding the Borders of Antebellum Experience	114
	Portable Boundaries	130
	The Moment of Arrival	138
	Paved with Good Intentions	152
	African Canadian Writing at the Crossroads of Space and Time	186
	Orbiting Home	202
	New Orleans, Paris, and Nostalgia	214
	Crossing Borders in Margaret Atwood’s Cartoon Art	242
	Crossing into Wilderness	260
	Border-crossings, Inter-cultural Encounters, and the Negotiation of Otherness in Rudy Wiebe’s A Discovery of Strangers	282
	Border Crossings	320
	Crossing Borders of Time and Space	352
	Border Crossings in Contemporary Canadian Responses to the Two World Wars	370
	List of Contributors	392