This chapter considers the writings of two specific visitors to Liverpool. The naturalist John James Audubon, famous for his Birds of America, recorded impressions gathered during his residence here. Secondly the showman George Catlin mounted a number of exhibitions in the city, including glimpses of Native American life. The latter was one of the earliest examples of celebrity culture in visitors to the city.
Cartographies of the Self: Indigenous Territoriality and Literary Sovereignty in Contemporary Native American Life Writing