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Amundsen, Roald 1872[-]1928

Norwegian polar explorer

Travel Writing

Nordvest-passagen, 2 vols, 1907; as The North-West Passage: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Gjøa” 1903[-]1907, 1908

Sydpolen, 2 vols, 1912; as The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram”, 1910[-]1912, translated by A.G. Chater, 1912

Nordostpassagen: Maudfaerden langs Asiens Kyst 1918[-]1920, 1921

Gjennem luften till 88˚ Nord, with Lincoln Ellsworth and other members of the expedition, 1925; as Our Polar Flight: The Amundsen[-]Ellsworth Polar Flight, 1925; as My Polar Flight, 1925

Den Første flukt over Polhavet, with Lincoln Ellsworth and others, 1926; as The First Flight across the Polar Sea, 1927; also as First Crossing of the Polar Sea, 1927

Mitt liv som polarforsker, 1927; as My Life as an Explorer, 1927

Further Reading

Cook, Frederick A., Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898[-]1899, London: Heinemann, and New York: Doubleday McClure, 1900

Cook was medical officer on board Belgica on her antarctic voyage.

Cross, Wilbur, Ghost Ship of the Pole, New York: Sloane, and London: Heinemann, 1960

Covers the flight and crash of the Italia and the search for the survivors.

Hanssen, Helmer, Voyages of a Modern Viking, foreword by Vice-Admiral R.G.R. Evans, London: Routledge, 1936

Hanssen took part in Amundsen’s Northwest Passage trip, the South Pole trip, and the Northeast Passage trip.

Huntford, Roland, Scott and Amundsen, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979, New York: Putnam, 1980; as The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen’s Race to the South Pole, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985, New York: Modern Library, 1999

Huntford, Roland (editor), The Amundsen Photographs, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1987

Presents and discusses Amundsen’s photographs from the Northwest Passage, South Pole, and Northeast Passage trips.

McKee, Alexander, Ice Crash, London: Souvenir Press, 1979

Account of the flight and crash of the dirigible Italia, and the complex search-and-rescue operation.

Nobile, Umberto, In volo alla conquista del segreto polare: da Roma a Teller attraverso il Polo Nord, Milano: Mondadori, 1928

Scott, Robert F., Scott’s Last Expedition, edited by Leonard Huxley, 2 vols, London: Smith Elder, 1914

Andes

Travel Writing

Andrews, Joseph, Journey from Buenos Ayres through the Provinces of Cordova, Tucuman, and Salta to Potosí: Thence by the Deserts of Caranja to Arica, and Subsequently to Santiago de Chile and Coquimbo, 12 vols, 1827; reprinted, 1971

Aráoz de la Madrid, Memorias, vol. 4, 1947

The struggle of the remnants of his army to cross the Andes, after their defeat in Rodeo del Medio, Mendoza, by Rosist forces.

Bradley, Eduardo, La travesía de los Andes en globo, 1917

Bradley and Angel María Zuloaga were pioneers in the crossing of the Andes by balloon.

Peter Anjou 1796[-]1869

Russian navy officer and explorer

Further Reading

Anonymous, “Izvlechenie iz zapisok mediko-khirurga Figurina, vedennykh vo vremia opisi beregov Severo-Vostochnoi Sibiri” [Excerpt from the Notes of the Surgeon Figurin, Written during the Mapping of the Coastal Areas of Northeast Siberia], Zapiski, izdavaemye gosudarstvennym Admiralteiskim Departamentom otnosiashchiiasia k Moreplavaniiu, Naukam i Slovestnostiam, 5 (1823): 259[-]328

Anonymous, “Admiral Petr Fedorovich Anzhu: Kratkii biograficheskii ocherk” [Admiral Peter Fedorovich Anjou: Short Biography], Morskoi Sbornik, 105/12 (1869): 1[-]16

Litke, F.P., “Izvestie ob ekspeditsiakh k severnym beregam Sibiri” [Account of the Expeditions to the Northern Coast of Siberia], Zapiski, izdavaemye gosudarstvennym Admiralteiskim Departamentom otnosiashchiiasia k Moreplavaniiu, Naukam i Slovestnostiam, 6 (1824): 81[-]119

Sokolov, A.P., “Opis’ beregov Ledovitago moria, mezhdy rek Oleneka i Indigirki, i Severnykh ostrovov: Leitenanta Anzhu 1821, 22 i 23 godov” [Mapping of the Coasts of the Arctic Ocean between the Rivers Olenek and Indigirka and Northern Islands], Zapiski Gidrograficheskago Departamenta Morskago Ministerstva, 7 (1849): 117[-]212

Tammiksaar, E., N.G. Sukhova and I.R. Stone, “Hypothesis versus Fact: August Petermann and Polar Research”, Arctic, 52/3 (1999): 237[-]44

Wrangell, Ferdinand von, Narrative of an Expedition to the Polar Sea, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822 & 1823, 2nd edition, translated by Edward Sabine, London: James Madden, 1844

Antarctica

Travel Writing

Amundsen, Roald, The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910[-]1912, translated by A.G. Chater, 1912

This tells the story of Amundsen’s successful dash to the Pole. Amundsen was also a member on the ill-fated Belgica expedition; his diary from this expedition was published in 1999 (Roald Amundsen’s Belgica diary, edited by Hugo Decleir).

Borchgrevink, C.E., First on the Antarctic Continent: Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898[-]1900, 1901

Borchgrevink collected the first vegetation from the Antarctic continent, and was sponsored by publishing magnate George Newnes to lead his own expedition south. He wintered at Cape Adare and then made the first sledge journey on the Ross Ice Shelf.

Brown, Robert Neal Rudmose, R.C. Mossmann, and J.H. Harvey Pirie, The Voyage of the “Scotia” being the second of a voyage of exploration in Antarctic seas by three of the staff, 1906; reprinted 1978

Bruce, William Speirs, The Log of the “Scotia” Expedition, 1902-4, edited by Peter Speake, 1992

Byrd, Richard Evelyn, Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, the Flight to the South Pole, 1930

Tells the story of Byrd’s first Antarctic expedition, including the flight to the South Pole, while Alone (1938) is an account of Byrd’s self-imposed period of solitude in the Antarctic.

Charcot, Jean-Baptiste, The Voyage of the “Why Not?” in the Antarctic, 1911; as The Voyage of the “Pourquois Pas?”: The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908[-]1910, 1978

Although she served him well in the Antarctic, Pourquois Pas? foundered off the coast of Iceland in 1936, drowning Charcot and most of his crew.

Charles, Thomas Ice Is Were You Find It, 1951

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910[-]1913, 1922

Cook, Frederick A., Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898[-]1899, 1900

An account of the first wintering in the Antarctic.

Cook, James, Voyage toward the South Pole, and round the World: Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775, 1777

Official account of Cook’s second expedition (1772[-]75) in which he crossed the Antarctic Circle and discovered South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Dufet, George J., Operation Deepfreeze, 1957

Dumont d’Urville, Jules-Sébastian-César, Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l’oceanie sur les corvettes l’Astrolabe et la Zelee: executé par ordre du Roi pendant les annees 1837[-]1840, 1841 [Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania in the Corvettes Astrolabe and Zélée, executed by order of the King during the years 1837[-]40]

Story of the first major French expedition to the Antarctic.

Fletcher, Francis, The World Encompassed, by Sir Francis Drake, 1628

A ship’s chaplain’s account of Drake’s voyage in 1578.

Fuchs, Vivian, The Crossing of Antarctica: The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955[-]58, 1958

Fuchs, Vivian, Of Ice and Men: The Story of the British Antarctic Survey, 1943[-]73, 1982

Fuchs, Vivian, A Time to Speak: An Autobiography, 1990

Fuchs led the first expedition to cross Antarctica from coast to coast, following which he served as the director of the British Antarctic Survey.

Gerlache de Gomery, Adrien de, Voyage de la “Belgica”: quinze mois dous l’Antarctique, 1902; as Fifteen Months in the Antarctic, translated by Maurice Raraty, 1998

Gerlache de Gomery and his crew did not intend to spend the winter in the Antarctic, and they were badly prepared. One crew member became so disoriented by perpetual darkness, storms, silence, and inadequate food that he left the ship claiming he would walk home to Belgium.

Hillary, Edmund, No Latitude for Error, 1961

Hillary, Edmund, Nothing Venture, Nothing Win, 1975

Hillary and Fuchs combined forces on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which used motorized sledges to cross from one side of the continent to the other, stopping at the South Pole.

Hurley, Frank, Shackleton’s Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Ice-Packs, 1948

Marra, John, Journal of the Resolution’s Voyage in 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775, 1775

Mawson, Douglas, The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911[-]1914, 1915

Mawson’s two companions were killed while exploring George V Land, forcing Mawson to make the return journey alone and with virtually no supplies.

Menster, William, Strong Men South, 1949

Ponting, Herbert G., The Great White South, 1921

Ross, James Clark, A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839[-]43, 1847

Ross was one of the most efficient explorers of his time.

Scott, Robert Falcon, The Voyage of the “Discovery”, 1905

The story of Scott’s first Antarctic command, 1901-1904.

Scott, Robert Falcon, Scott’s Last Expedition: The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott, 1913

Scott was an outstanding writer, and his journal, parts of which were written when he knew there was no possibility of survival, are deeply moving. Other members of his expeditions also wrote books, including Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Herbert G. Ponting, and Edward Wilson.

Shackleton, E.H., The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907[-]1909, 1909

Shackleton, E.H., South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition, 1914[-]1917, 1919

Relates Shackleton’s experiences in the Antarctic. Other members of Shackleton’s various expeditions wrote accounts, including Frank Hurley and Frank Wild.

Wheeler, Sara, Terra Icognita: Travels in Antarctica, 1996

A woman’s perspective on a modern Antarctic expedition.

Wild, Frank, Shackleton’s Last Voyage: The Story of the “Quest”, 1923

Wilkes, Charles, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842, 1845

Wilkes was a controversial figure, who was court-martialled when his expedition returned to the United States.

Wilson, Edward, Diary of the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, 1910[-]1912, edited by H.G.R. King, 1972

Further Reading

Enderby, Charles, The Auckland Islands: A Short Account of their Climate, Soil and Productions, and the Advantages of Establishing There a Settlement at Port Ross for the Carrying Out of the Southern Whale Fisheries, London: Pelham Richardson, 1849

Although he never saw the polar regions himself, Enderby encouraged his whaling captains to spend time investigating the Antarctic coastline as well as chasing whales.

Gurney, Alan, Below the Convergence: Voyages towards Antarctica, 1699-1839, London: Pimlico, 1998

Voyages from Halley’s (studying compass variations) to sealing expedition of the Eliza Scott.

Rubin, Jeff, Antarctica: A Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit, Hawthorn, Victoria and Oakland, California: Lonely Planet, 1996

The first mass-market travel guide to the Antarctic.

Stonehouse, Bernard, The Last Continent: Discovering Antarctica, Burgh Castle, Norfolk: SCP, 2000

A superior travel guide to the Antarctic.

Apollonius of Tyana (First century ce)

Greek philosopher and traveler

Travel Writing

Flavii Philostrati Opera, edited by C.L. Kayser, vol. 1, 1870

The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, translated by F.C. Conybeare, 2 vols, 1912[-]1950

Arabia

Travel Writing

Ali Bey, Voyages d’Ali-Bey el Abbassi en Afrique et en Asie, pendant les années 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806 et 1807, 3 vols, 1814; as Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey between the Years 1803 and 1807, 2 vols, 1816Asher, Michael, In Search of the Forty Days Road, 1984

Ali Bey was an alias of Domingo Badía y Leblich.

Asher, Michael, A Desert Dies, 1986

Asher, Michael, Impossible Journey: Two Against the Sahara, 1988

Asher, Michael, The Last of the Bedu: In Search of the Myth, 1996

Braude, Benjamin, “‘Jew’ and Jesuit at the Origins of Arabism: William Gifford Palgrave” in The Jewish Discovery of Islam: Studies in Honor of Bernard Lewis, edited by Martin Kramer, Tel Aviv: Moshe Dàydàn Centre for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1999

Burckhardt, John Lewis, Travels in Arabia, Comprehending an Account of Those Territories in Hedjaz Which the Mohammedans Regard as Sacred, 2 vols, 1829

Burckhardt, John Lewis, Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys, 2 vols, 1831

Burton, Richard F., Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, 3 vols, 1855; Memorial edition, 2 vols, 1893

Burton, Richard F., The Gold-Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities: A Fortnight’s Tour in North-western Arabia, 1878

Burton, Richard F., The Land of Midian (Revisited), 2 vols, 1879

Carruthers, Douglas, Arabian Adventure: To the Great Nafud in Quest of the Oryx, 1935

A naturalist in search of the Arabian oryx in Hejaz in 1909.

Cheesman, R.E., In Unknown Arabia, 1926

Explored in 1923[-]24 the northern edges of the Empty Quarter.

Cocker, Mark, Loneliness and Time: British Travel Writing in the Twentieth Century, 1992

Cole, Donald Powell, Nomads of the Nomads: The Al Murrah Bedouin of the Empty Quarter, 1975

An anthropologist who lived with the Al Murrah Bedouin of the Empty Quarter in 1968[-]70.

Dickson, H.R.P., The Arab of the Desert: A Glimpse into Badawin Life in Kuwait and Sau’di Arabia, 1949

A classic of bedouin life.

Doughty, Charles M., Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vols, 1888

Euting, Julius, Tagbuch einer Reise in Inner-Arabien, 2 vols, 1896[-]1914

German explorer who travelled in Central Arabia in 1883[-]84.

Fiennes, Ranulph, Atlantis of the Sands: The Search for the Lost City of Ubar, London: Bloomsbury, 1992

Forsskål, Peter, Resa till Lycklige Arabien: dagbok 1761[-]1763 [Journey to Arabia Felix: Diary 1761[-]1763], 1950

Hansen, Eric, Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, 1991

Kinglake, Alexander W., Eothen; or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East, 1844

Labid Ibn Rabiah, The Golden Ode, edited and translated by William R. Polk, with photographs by William J. Mares, 1974 [Arabic and English]

Lancaster, William, The Rwala Bedouin Today, 1981

An anthropologist who spent several years with the Rwala Bedouin of the Arabian peninsula in the 1970s.

Lawrence, T.E., Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, 1935

Loti, Pierre, Le Désert, 1895; as The Desert, translated by Jay Paul Minn, 1993

An eccentric writer’s diary of a journey on camelback through the Sinai desert in 1894.

Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, 1997; as Yemen: The Unknown Arabia, 2000

Maltzan, Heinrich von, Meine Wallfahrt nach Mekka, 2 vols, 1865

A description of his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1860.

Musil, Alois, Arabia Petraea, 4 vols, 1907[-]08

Musil, Alois, Arabia Deserta: A Topographical Itinerary, 1927

Musil, Alois, The Manners and Customs of the Rwala Bedouins, 1928

Musil, Alois, Northern Negd: A Topographical Itinerary, 1928; reprinted, 1978

Musil, Alois, In The Arabian Desert, 1930

Niebuhr, Carsten, Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern, 3 vols, 1774[-]1837; as Travels through Arabia and Other Countries in the East, translated by Robert Heron, 2 vols, 1792

Nölde, Eduard, Reise nach Innerarabien, Kurdistan und Armenien, 1892, 1895

Oppenheim, Max Freiherr von, with Erich Bräunlich and Werner Caskel, Die Beduinen, 4 vols, 1939[-]68

Palgrave, William Gifford, A Narrative of a Year’s Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 1862[-]63, 2 vols, 1865

Philby, H. St John B., The Heart of Arabia, 2 vols, 1922

Philby, H. St John B., Arabia of the Wahhabis, 1928

Philby, H. St John B., The Empty Quarter, 1933

Philby, H. St John B., Sheba’s Daughters, 1939

Philby, H. St John B., “Palgrave in Arabia”, The Geographical Journal 109 (1947): 282[-]85

Philby, H. St John B., Arabian Highlands, 1952

Philby, H. St John B., The Land of Midian, 1957

Philby, H. St John B., Forty Years in the Wilderness, 1957

Pitts, Joseph, A True and Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mohammetans, 1704; 4th edition, 1738; reprinted, 1971

Polk, William R. and William J. Mares, Passing Brave, 1973

Rushby, Kevin, Eating the Flowers of Paradise: A Journey through the Drug Fields of Ethiopia and Yemen, 1998

Sadleir, George Forster, Diary of a Journey across Arabia, from El Khatif in the Persian Gulf to Yambo on the Red Sea, during the Year 1819, 1866; reprinted, 1977

Seetzen, Ulrich Jasper, Reisen durch Syrien, Palästina, Phönicien, die Transjordan-Länder, Arabia Petraea und Unter-Aegypten, edited by Friedrich Kruse, 4 vols, 1854[-]59

Taylor, Andrew, Travelling the Sands: Sagas of Exploration in the Arabian Peninsula, Dubai: Motivate, 1995

Thesiger, Wilfred, Arabian Sands, 1959

Thesiger, Wilfred, Desert, Marsh and Mountain: The World of a Nomad, 1979

Thesiger, Wilfred, Visions of a Nomad, 1987

Thomas, Bertram, Arabia Felix: Across the “Empty Quarter” of Arabia, with a foreword by T.E. Lawrence, 1932

Varthema, Ludovico di, Itinerario de Ludovico de Varthema Bolognese nello Egypto, nella Surria, nella Arabia deserta e felice, nella Persia, nella India e nella Ethiopia, 1510; as The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India and Ethiopia, ad 1503 to 1508, translated by John Winter Jones, edited by George Percy Badger, 1863

Wallin, Georg August, “Notes Taken during a Journey through Part of Northern Arabia, in 1848”, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 21 (1851): 293[-]344; reprinted in Travels in Arabia (1845 and 1848) by G.A. Wallin, 1979

Wallin, Georg August, “Narrative of a Journey from Cairo to Medina and Mecca, by Suez, Arabá, Tawilá, al-Jauf, Jubbé, Háil, and Nejd, in 1845”, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 24 (1854): 115[-]207; reprinted in Travels in Arabia (1845 and 1848) by G.A. Wallin, 1979

Wallin, Georg August, “Narrative of a Journey from Cairo to Jerusalem, viâ Mount Sinai”, translated by Norton Shaw, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 25 (1855): 260[-]90

Wellsted, J.R., Travels in Arabia, 2 vols, 1838

Further Reading

Asher, Michael, Thesiger: A Biography, with photographs by Mariantónietta Peru, London and New York: Viking, 1994

Asher, Michael, Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia, London: Viking, 1998; Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 1999

Assad, Thomas J., Three Victorian Travellers: Burton, Blunt, Doughty, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964

Bauer, Karl Johannes, Alois Musil: Wahrheitssucher in der Wüste, Vienna: Böhlau, 1989

Beckingham, C.F., “Some Early Travels in Arabia”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1949): 155[-]76; also in his Between Islam and Christendom: Travellers, Facts, and Legends in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, London: Variorum, 1983

Beckingham, C.F., “The Date of Pitts’s Pilgrimage to Mecca”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1950): 112[-]13; also in his Between Islam and Christendom: Travellers, Facts, and Legends in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, London: Variorum, 1983

Beckingham, C.F., “Dutch Travellers in Arabia in the Seventeenth Century”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1951): 64[-]81, 170[-]81; also in his Between Islam and Christendom: Travellers, Facts, and Legends in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, London: Variorum, 1983

Beckingham, C.F., “Some Early European Travellers in Arabia”, Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 6 (1976): 1[-]4; also in his Between Islam and Christendom: Travellers, Facts, and Legends in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, London: Variorum, 1983

Berlin, Isaiah, The First and the Last, New York: New York Review of Books, and London: Granta, 1999

Bevis, Richard, “Spiritual Geology: C.M. Doughty and the Land of the Arabs”, Victorian Studies, 16 (1972): 163[-]81

Bidwell, Robin, Travellers in Arabia, London: Hamlyn, 1976

Braude, Benjamin, “Palgrave and His Critics, the Origins and Implications of a Controversy: Part One, the Nineteenth Century -- the Abyssinian Imbroglio”, Arabian Studies, 7 (1985): 97[-]138

Brent, Peter, Far Arabia: Explorers of the Myth, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977

Brodie, Fawn M., The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton, New York: Norton, and London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1967

Buckley, Martin, Grains of Sand, London: Hutchinson, 2000

Burton, Isabel, The Life of Captain Sir Richad F. Burton, edited by W.H. Wilkins, 2 vols, London: Chapman and Hall, 1893

Chaine, M., “Un voyage inédit du père Sicard à la Mecque en 1724”, Revue de l’Orient Chrétien, 28 (1932): 209[-]21

Chelhod, Joseph, “Un nouvel éclairage sur la mission et la morte d’Ali Bey”, Studia Islamica, 80 (1994): 165[-]68

Chelhod, Joseph, “Le Voyage en Orient du Comte Wenceslas Rzewuski effectué durant les années 1818 et 1819”, Arabica, 42 (1995): 404[-]18

Clapp, Nicholas, The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998

Edwards, F.M., “George Forster Sadleir (1789[-]1859) of the 47th Regt.: The First European to Cross Arabia”, Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, 44 (1957): 38[-]49

Farwell, Byron, Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton, New York: Holt Rinehart, 1963; London: Longman, 1964

Feigl, Erich, Musil von Arabien: Vorkämpfer der islamischen Welt, Vienna: Amalthea, 1985

Foss, Michael, “Dangerous Guides: English Writers and the Desert”, New Middle East, 9 (June 1969): 38[-]42

Freeth, Zahra and H.V.F Winstone, Explorers of Arabia from the Renaissance to the End of the Victorian Era, London: Allen and Unwin, and New York: Holmes and Meier, 1978

Gellner, Ernest, “Lawrence of Moravia: Alois Musil, Monotheism and the Habsburg Empire”, Times Literary Supplement (19 August 1994): 12[-]14

Godsall, Jon R., “Fact and Fiction in Richard Burton’s Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah (1855[-]6)”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3rd series, 3/3 (1993): 331[-]51

Grohmann, Adolf, Arabien, Munich: Beck, 1963

Hansen, Thorkild, Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761[-]1767, translated by James McFarlane and Kathleen McFarlane, London: Collins, and New York: Harper and Row, 1964

Hayman, John (editor), Sir Richard Burton’s Travels in Arabia and Africa: Four Lectures from a Huntington Library Manuscript, San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1990

Hobbs, Joseph J., Mount Sinai, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995

Hogarth, D.G., The Penetration of Arabia: A Record of the Development of Western Knowledge Concerning the Arabian Peninsula, New York: Stokes, 1904, London: Alston Rivers, 1905; reprinted, Westport, Connecticut: Hyperion Press, 1981

Jabbur, Jibrail S., The Bedouins and the Desert: Aspects of Nomadic Life in the Arab East, translated by Lawrence I. Conrad, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995

Jeffery, Arthur, “Christians at Mecca”, Moslem World, 19 (1929): 221[-]35

Juynboll, G.H.A., “Westerlingen in Mekka en Medina”, De Gids, 143 (1980): 648[-]58

Kaplan, Robert D., The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite, New York: Free Press, 1993

Kelly, J.B., “Jeux sans frontières: Philby’s Travels in Southern Arabia” in The Islamic World from Classical to Modern Times: Essays in Honor of Bernard Lewis, edited by C.E. Bosworth et al., Princeton, New Jersey: Darwin Press, 1989

Kiernan, R.H., The Unveiling of Arabia: The Story of Arabian Travel and Discovery, London: Harrap, 1937; reprinted, New York: AMS Press, 1975

King, Geoffrey, “Some European Travellers in Najd in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries ad” in Sources for the History of Arabia, edited by Abdelgadir Mahmoud Abdalla et al., vol. 2, Riyadh: Riyadh University Press, 1979

Levi Della Vida, Giorgio, “A Portuguese Pilgrim at Mecca in the Sixteenth Century”, Moslem World, 32 (1942): 283[-]97

Lovell, Mary S., A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton, London: Little Brown, and New York: Norton, 1998

McLoughlin, Leslie, “Abdullah Philby’s Crossing of the Empty Quarter”, Asian Affairs, 22 (1991): 142[-]51

McLynn, Frank, Burton: Snow upon the Desert, London: John Murray, 1990

Marshall, Brian, “Bertram Thomas and the Crossing of Al-Rub’ Al-Khali”, Arabian Studies, 7 (1985): 139[-]50

Monroe, Elizabeth, Philby of Arabia, London: Faber, 1973

Pirenne, Jacqueline, A la Découverte de l’Arabie: cinq siècles de science et d’aventure, Paris: Amiot Dumont, 1958

Procházka, Theodore Sr, “Alois Musil vs. T.E. Lawrence?”, Archív Orientální, 63 (1995): 435[-]39

Putintseva, Tamara Aleksandrovna, Sledy vedut v peski Aravii [Traces Lead to the Sands of Arabia], Moscow: Nauka, 1984

Rasheed, Madawi al-, “North Arabia through Musil’s Telescope”, Archív Orientální, 63 (1995): 446[-]54

Sim, Katharine, Desert Traveller: The Life of Jean Louis Burckhardt, London: Gollancz, 1969

Simmons, James C., Passionate Pilgrims: English Travelers to the World of the Desert Arabs, New York: Morrow, 1987

Sudairi, ‘Abd al-Rahman bin Ahmad al-, The Desert Frontier of Arabia: al-Jawf through the Ages, London: Stacey, 1995

Sykes, Percy, A History of Exploration from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, and New York: Macmillan, 1934; 3rd edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1950

Tabachnick, Stephen E., Explorations in Doughty’s Arabia Deserta, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987

Tabachnick, Stephen E., “Burton’s Review of Doughty’s Arabia Deserta” in In Search of Sir Richard Burton: Papers from a Huntington Library Symposium, edited by Alan H. Jutzi, San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1993

Tidrick, Kathryn, Heart-Beguiling Araby, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981; revised edition, London: Tauris, 1989

Trautz, M., “G.A. Wallin and ‘The Penetration of Arabia’ ”, Geographical Journal, 76 (1930): 248[-]52

Trautz, M., “A Forgotten Explorer of Arabia: G.A. Wallin”, Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, 19 (1932): 131[-]50

Trench, Richard, Arabian Travellers, London: Macmillan, and Topsfield, Massachusetts: Salem House, 1986

Tuan, Yi-fu, “Desert and Ice: Ambivalent Aesthetics” in Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts, edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Turner, Adrian, The Making of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia, Limpsfield, Surrey: Dragon’s World, 1994

Vassiliev, Alexei, The History of Saudi Arabia, London: Saqi, 1998

Winstone, H.V.F., Captain Shakespear: A Portrait, London: Jonathan Cape,

Arctic

Travel Writing

Back, George, Arctic Artist: The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin, 1819[-]1822, edited by C.S. Houston, 1994

Barrow, John, Voyages of Discovery and Research in the Arctic Regions, 1846

Lopez, Barry, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, 1986

Lyon, George, The Private Journal of Capt. G.F. Lyon, 1824

Nansen, Fridtjof, Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Fram” 1893[-]96 …, 2 vols, 1897

Parry, William, Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific …, 1821

Scoresby, William, An Account of the Arctic Regions, 1820; reprinted, 1969

Further Reading

Atwood, Margaret, Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature, Oxford: Clarendon Press, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995

Berton, Pierre, The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, New York: Viking Penguin, 1988

Bockstoce, John R., Whales, Ice and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986

Brody, Hugh, The People’s Land: Eskimos and Whites in the Eastern Arctic, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975

Brody, Hugh, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North, London and Boston: Faber, 1988

Brown, Warren, The Search for the Northwest Passage, New York: Chelsea House, 1991

Day, Alan Edwin, Search for the Northwest Passage: An Annotated Bibliography, New York: Garland, 1986

Feeney, Robert E., Polar Journeys: The Role of Food and Nutrition in Early Exploration, Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, and Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1997

Fleming, Fergus, Barrow’s Boys, London: Granta, 1998

Geiger, John and Owen Beattie, Dead Silence: The Greatest Mystery in Arctic Discovery, London: Bloomsbury, 1993

Hall, Colin Michael and Margaret E. Johnston (editors), Polar Tourism: Tourism in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions, Chichester and New York: Wiley, 1995

Holdridge, Desmond, Arctic Lights, London: Hale, 1940

Kirwan, Laurence, The White Road: A Survey of Polar Exploration, London: Hollis and Carter, 1959

Loomis, C.C., “The Arctic Sublime” in Nature and the Victorian Imagination, edited by U.C. Knoepflmacher and G.B. Tennyson, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977

Malaurie, Jean, Ultima Thulé, Paris: Bordas, 1990

Moss, John, Arctic Landscape and the Metaphysics of Geography, London: Canadian High Commission, 1992

Nickerson, Sheila, Disappearance, A Map: A Meditation on Death and Loss in the High Latitudes, New York: Doubleday, 1996

Nuttall, Mark, Arctic Homeland: Kinship, Community and Development in North West Greenland, London: Belhaven Press[-]Scott Polar Research Institute, 1992

Oswalt, Wendell H., Eskimos and Explorers, Novato, California: Chandler and Sharp, 1979

Riffenburgh, Beau, The Myth of the Explorer: The Press, Sensationalism, and Geographical Discovery, London: Belhaven Press[-]Scott Polar Research Institute, 1993

Spufford, Francis, I May be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, London: Faber, 1996; New York: St Martin's Press, 1997

Sugden, D.E., “The Polar Environment: Illusion and Reality”, Ambio, 18/1 (1989): 2[-]5

Williams, Glyndwr, The British Search for the Northwest Passage in the Eighteenth Century, London: Longman, 1962

Young, Steven B., To the Arctic: An Introduction to the Far Northern World, New York: Wylie, 1989

Argentina

Travel Writing

Andrews, Joseph, Journey from Buenos Ayres, through the Provinces of Cordova, Tucuman and Salta, to Potosi, 2 vols, 1827; reprinted, 1971

Beaumont, J.A.B., Travels in Buenos Ayres and the Adjacent Provinces of the Río de la Plata, with Observations Intended for the Use of Persons Who Contemplate Emigrating to That Country, or Embarking Capital in Its Affairs, 1828

Bonelli, L. Hugh de, Travels in Bolivia, with a Tour across the Pampas to Buenos Ayres, 1854

Brand, Charles, Journal of a Voyage to Peru, a Passage across the Cordillera of the Andes … and a Journey across the Pampas, 1828

Bridges, E. Lucas, The Uttermost Part of the Earth, 1948

Chatwin, Bruce, In Patagonia, 1977

Childs, Herbert, El Jimmy: Outlaw of Patagonia, 1936

Crawford, Robert, Across the Pampas and the Andes, 1884

Darwin, Charles, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of “H.M.S. Beagle” round the World, 1839; revised edition, 1845

Davie, John Constanse, Letters from Paraguay: Describing the Settlements of Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, 1805

Durrell, Gerald, The Drunken Forest, 1956

Durrell, Gerald, The Whispering Land, 1961

Elwes, Robert, A Sketcher’s Tour round the World, 1854

Falkner, Thomas, A Description of Patagonia and the Adjoining parts of South America, 1774; reprinted, 1935

Fernyhough, Thomas, Military Memoirs of Four Brothers, 1829

Fitzroy, Robert, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, vols 1[-]2, 1839

Gillespie, Alexander, Gleanings and Remarks: Collected during Many Months of Residence at Buenos Ayres, and within the Upper Country, 1818

Greene, Graham, Travels with My Aunt, 1969

Hadfield, William, Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands, 1854

Haigh, Samuel, Sketches of Buenos Ayres, Chile, and Peru, 1831

Head, Francis Bond, Rough Notes Taken during Some Rapid Journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes, 1826

Hinchcliff, Thomas Woodbine, South American Sketches, 1863

Hutchinson, Thomas J., Buenos Ayres and Argentine Gleanings, 1865

Isherwood, Christopher, The Condor and the Cows, 1949

King, J. Anthony, Twenty-Four Years in the Argentine Republic, 1846

Latham, Wilfrid, The States of the River Plate: Their Industries and Commerce, 1866

Love, George Thomas, A Five Years’ Residence in Buenos Ayres, during the Years 1820 to 1825, 1825

MacCann, William, Two Thousand Miles’ Ride through the Argentine Provinces, 2 vols, 1853

Meyer, Gordon, The River and the People, 1965

Miers, John, Travels in Chile and La Plata, 2 vols, 1826

Mulhall, Michael G., The English in South America, 1878

Mulhall, Mrs M.G. (Marion McMurrough Mulhall), Between the Amazon and the Andes; or, Ten Years of a Lady’s Travels in the Pampas, Gran Chaco, Paraguay and Matto Grosso, 1881

Musters, George Chaworth, At Home with the Patagonians: A Year’s Wandering over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro, 1871

Parish, Woodbine, Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Río de la Plata: From Their Discovery and Conquest by the Spaniards to the Establishment of Their Political Independence, 1839; 2nd edition, 1852

Robertson, J.P. and W.P. Robertson, Letters on Paraguay, Comprising an Account of a Four Years Residence in That Republic, 3 vols, 1838[-]39

Robertson, J.P. and W.P. Robertson, Letters on South America, 3 vols, 1843

Scarlett, P. Campbell, South America and the Pacific: Comprising a Journey across the Pampas and the Andes, from Buenos Ayres to Valparaíso, Lima and Panamá, 2 vols, 1838

Schmidtmeyer, Peter, Travels into Chile, over the Andes, in the Years 1820 and 1821, 1824