This edition presents the collected correspondence of eminent Czech geographer and traveller Jiří Daneš (1880-1928), which was sent to his mother Johanna, née Fastrova (1837-1908), as he undertook his fi rst transatlantic journey to the Eighth International Geographical Congress in Washington D. C. and then travelled across the United States in 1904. The correspondence is a curious testimony to a Czech scientist’s day-to-day life on his travels. Furthermore, the correspondence allows us to perceive the life of American society at the beginning of the 20th century through the eyes of a young patriotic intellectual and ambitious man of science. and Překlad resumé: Melvyn Clarke