Note: List of entries is preliminary and may change prior to publication.

B

Bicycles

Cycling Narratives

Allen, Thomas Gaskell and William Lewis Sachtleben, Across Asia on a Bicycle: The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking, 1894

Anderson, William C., The Great Bicycle Expedition: Freewheeling through Europe with a Family, a Potted Plant -- and Bicycle Seatus, 1973

Annis, William L., Alaska Journal: A Cyclist’s Adventure Tour in Southeast Alaska, 1993

Bailey, Glenn, One Pedal at a Time: A Bicycle Journey around Australia, 1995

Baron, Stanley R., Westward Ho! From Cambria to Cornwall, 1934

Bauer, Fred, How Many Hills to Hillsboro?, 1969

Bell, David E.T., The Highway Man, edited by P. Blane, S.J. Hourston, and J.B. Gambles, 1970

A collection of articles reprinted from the Ayrshire Post, in which the author explores Galloway, Ayrshire, and elsewhere.

Berg, Ted, Sweden and Back on a Bicycle: The Adventures of a Fourteen-Year-Old Traveling Alone, 1956

Biddulph, Eric, A Gringo and a Bike in South America, 1987

Birchmore, Fred A., Around the World on a Bicycle, 1939

Bolton, Alfred M., Over the Pyrenees: A Bicyclist’s Adventures among the Spaniards, 1883

An early account of a tour on a Rucker high-wheeled machine. While this is not an overt piece of manufacturer’s publicity, interest in travel writing was shown by cycle makers from very early on and many travellers were given machines or sponsored by makers in the hope of positive publicity (not guaranteed if the machine or the rider collapsed en route). A. Ward’s Thirty Thousand Miles on the Tension (1874), one of the earliest pieces of cyclo-travel writing, puffs Grout’s “Tension” bicycles even if it is not a direct advertisement for them.

Broad, Lucy, A Woman’s Wanderings the World Over, 1909

Brooks, Charles S., A Thread of English Road, 1924

Bulfin, William (Che Buono), Rambles in Eirinn, 1907

Burke, W.S., Cycling in Bengal, 1898

Burston, G.W. and H.R. Stokes, Round about the World on Bicycles, 1890

Callan, Hugh, Wanderings on Wheel and on Foot through Europe, 1887

Callan, Hugh, From the Clyde to the Jordan: Narrative of a Bicycle Journey, 1895

Cavan, Frederick Edward Gould Lambart, Earl of, With the Yacht, Camera, and Cycle in the Mediterranean, 1895

Chandler, Alfred D., A Bicycle Tour in England and Wales, 1881

Chilosà, Waif and Stray: The Adventures of Two Tricycles, 1896

This 250-page account records a tricycle tour by two women cyclists. In the 1890s and early 1900s the tricycle (by then a three-wheeled version of a safety bicycle) remained popular as an adult machine among a certain class of rider. Its expense kept it apart from the masses, and the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) legitimized it by riding a Humber.

Coffey, Maria, Three Moons in Vietnam: A Haphazard Journey by Boat and Bicycle, 1996

Cole, Grenville A.J., The Gypsy Road: A Journey from Krakow to Coblentz, 1894

Cook, Dave, Breaking Loose: An Account of an Overland Cycle Journey from London to Australia, 1994

Cowles, Frederick, Vagabond Pilgrimage, Being the Record of a Journey from East Anglia to the West of England, 1949

Crane, Nicholas and Richard Crane, Bicycles up Kilimanjaro, 1985

Crane, Nick, Atlas Biker: Mountainbiking in Morocco, 1990

The mountain bike has developed its own culture of riding that has greatly contributed to recent cyclo-travel writing. Although cynics would argue that there is nothing done today that has not been tried in the past, the development of mountain bikes and their hybrid relatives has attracted many more potential writers to cycling as an activity, with a consequent flurry of cyclo-travel writing in recent years.

Crane, Richard and Nicholas Crane, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, 1987

Crockett, S.R., Sweetheart Travellers, 1895

Davar, Framji Jamshedji, Cycling over the Roof of the World … The First Bicycle Journey over the Mighty Andes, 1929

Davar, Framji Jamshedji, Across the Sahara, 1937

Davidson, Lillias, Handbook for Lady Cyclists, 1896

Dew, Josie, The Wind in My Wheels: Travel Tales from the Saddle, 1992

Dew, Josie, Travels in a Strange State: Cycling across the U.S.A, 1994

Downing, Rupert, If I Laugh: The Chronicle of My Strange Adventures in the Great Paris Exodus -- June 1940, 1941

The military value of the cycle’s use in war is a discussion topic among historians, but one thing it did provide was transport for those eager to avoid hostilities. Its use to escape from the German occupation of France is well described in this and in Peter Fontaine’s Last to Leave Paris, 1941.

Drorbaugh, Richard, World Ride: Going the Extra Mile against Cancer, 1995

Recently the cycle has undergone a renaissance as a means to human betterment, either as curative agent, or as a method of raising money for worthy causes through sponsorship of epic runs; both have had an effect on cyclo-travel writing.

Duker, Peter, Sting in the Tail: By Racing Bicycle around the World, 1973

Ellington, W.A., Through the Ardennes and Luxembourg on Wheels, 1891

Elvin, Harold, The Ride to Chandigarh, 1957

Elvin, Harold, Avenue to the Door of the Dead, 1961

Elvin, Harold, Elvin’s Rides, 1963

Through Thailand, Lapland, and Cambodia on a raleigh.

Erskine, F.J., Tricycling for Ladies, 1885

Although this is a general rider’s guide, it gives a good indication of the culture that surrounded pioneering women’s cycling at the time of the high bicycle. Erskine went on to write Bicycling for Ladies, 1896. For examples of similar guides aimed at the male market, refer to the work of Henry Sturmey and Harry Hewitt Griffin.

Faed [A.J. Wilson], Two Trips to the Emerald Isle, 1888

Includes “A Racing Trip to Dublin” and “A Touring Trip to Killarney”.

Fraser, John Foster, Round the World on a Wheel, Being the Narrative of a Bicycle Ride of Nineteen Thousand Two Hundred and Thirty-seven Miles through Seventeen Countries and across Three Continents by John Foster Fraser, S. Edward Lunn and F.H. Lowe, 1899; abridged edition, 1982

The somewhat later English equivalent of Thomas Stevens (see below). Possibly because their journey was made on diamond-frame safeties rather than high-wheeled machines, it seems to lack something in comparison to Stevens’s ride, which was also the more impressive by being accomplished alone. Undoubtedly there is a “derring-do” element that even a non-cyclist cannot help but admire in long-distance rides on high machines in the conditions of the late 19th century which is diluted by the use of what is effectively a modern machine. This does not prevent Fraser’s account from being highly readable, and it has enjoyed a number of reprints.

Galen, Ralph W., 2 Wheels, 2 Years and 3 Continents: A Bicyclist’s Dream Fulfilled, 1997

Garrison, Winfred Ernest, Wheeling through Europe, 1900

Gidmark, David, Journey across a Continent, 1977

Describes a tour across Canada.

Green, Anna and Howard Green, On a Bicycle Made for Two, 1990

Account of a tandem journey from London to Nepal.

Hakim, Adi B., et al., With the Cyclists round the World, 1928

Hamsher, W. Papel, The Balkans by Bicycle, 1937

Hanson, John, Around the World in Cycle Clips (An Eye Opening Journey through Calamities, Curries and Culture Shock), 1990

Hardinge, Rex, South African Cinderella: A Trek through Ex-German South Africa, 1937

Harper, Charles G., Cycle Rides round London, 1902

Harper published an extensive series of books describing roads and their histories for cyclists, of which this is an example. Harper’s publications are to some extent a type of road-book; see Inglis below.

Hastings, Frederick, The Spins of “The Cycling Parson”, 1903

The cycle has long been associated with clerics, partly thanks to writers such as Hastings, although his spins were somewhat more ambitious than those of the stereotypical English vicar. The Christian churches have often promoted cycling; many 19th-century clubs were church-based, and the association of cycling with Christian fellowship continues today.

Hibell, Ian and Clinton Trowbridge, Into the Remote Places, 1984

Howgate, Bernie, Tales of a Travelling Man (Eight Years around the World on a Ten-Speed Bike), 1990

Inglis, Harry R.G., The Contour Road Book of Scotland, 1896

The first of Inglis’s Contour series, it was followed by England, Northern Division (1897), England, South-East Division (1898), England, Western Division (1900) and Ireland (1905). The more popular of these ran to 25 editions up to the 1970s, but the earlier versions give more of a flavour of the roads the writer experienced. A number of related publications were produced, of which Short Spins round Edinburgh (1897) probably gives the best indication of Inglis’s tastes in what to look for while cycling. The Contour series may be compared to the Cyclists’ Touring Club British Road Book, vol. 1 of which appeared in 1891, and Charles Howard’s The Roads of England and Wales, 1882.

Jackson, Keith, Keith’s Incredible Journey (Alaska[-]Tierra del Fuego), 1984

James, Charles, Two on a Tandem, Being the … Account of the Tour of Two Men on a Bicycle, 1896

Jefferson, Robert L., To Constantinople on a Bicycle: The Story of My Ride, 1894

Jefferson, Robert L., Awheel to Moscow and Back: The Record of a Record Cycle Ride, 1895

Jefferson, Robert L., Across Siberia on a Bicycle, 1896

Jefferson, Robert L., A New Ride to Khiva, 1899

Jefferson, Robert L., Through a Continent on Wheels, illustrated by Harry Evans, 1899

Jerome, Jerome K., Three Men on the Bummel, 1900

This humorous account of a cycle tour in Germany follows directly from Three Men in a Boat. It places cycle touring firmly in the context of middle-class leisured pastimes.

Johnson, Barbara Mary, Pilgrim on a Bicycle: Coast to Coast in Search of Community, 1982

Jose, A.W., Two Awheel and Some Others Afoot in Australia, 1903

Kharas, K.J., R.D. Ghandhi and R.D. Shroff, Pedalling through the Afghan Wilds, 1935

Kron, Karl, Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle, 1887; reprinted, 1982

These 800 pages of close-packed type exemplify the Victorian fascination with the systematic recording of detail. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Kron (real name Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg) was impecunious to the point of poverty and had to work his passage on ship and take other menial jobs on land to support what was intended to be a round-the-world ride; however, continual setbacks resulted in Kron having to curtail the exercise after only (!) 10,000 miles. The book was financed by subscription and privately published. Author-published accounts of epic rides remain common in cyclo-travel writing.

Kshitisa, Chandra Vandyopadhyaya, My Travels in the East, 1936

Kshitisa, Chandra Vandyopadhyaya, Across the Near East, 1938

Le Gallienne, Richard, Travels in England, 1900

Lovett, Richard A., Freewheelin’: A Solo Journey across America, 1992

Lynn, Ethel, The Adventures of a Woman Hobo, 1917

McCulloch, Alan, Trial by Tandem, 1951

Magnouloux, Bernard, Travels with Rosinante: 5 Years’ Cycling round the World, 1988

Meakin, Budgett, The Land of the Moors, 1901; reprinted, 1986

Melland, Frank H. and Edward H. Cholmeley, Through the Heart of Africa, 1912

Murif, Jerome J., From Ocean to Ocean: Across a Continent on a Bicycle: An Account of a Solitary Ride from Adelaide to Port Darwin, 1897

Murphy, Dervla, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, 1965

Murphy, Dervla, The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal, 1967

Murphy, Dervla, Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir, 1992

Murphy, Dervla, The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe, 1993

Murphy, Dervla, South from the Limpopo: Travels through South Africa, 1997

Mustoe, Anne, Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World, 1998

Nauticus, Nauticus on His Hobby Horse; or, The Adventures of a Sailor during a Tricycle Cruise of 1427 Miles, 1880

Nauticus, Nauticus in Scotland: A Tricycle Tour of 2,462 Miles, Including Skye and the West Coast, 1882

Newby, Eric, Round Ireland in Low Gear, 1987

Newman, Bernard, In the Trail of the Three Musketeers, 1934

Newman, Bernard, Pedalling Poland, 1935

Newman, Bernard, The Blue Danube: Black Forest to Black Sea, 1935

Newman, Bernard, Albanian Back-door, 1936

Newman, Bernard, I Saw Spain, 1937

Newman, Bernard, Ride to Russia, 1938

Newman, Bernard, Baltic Roundabout, 1939

Newman, Bernard, Savoy! Corsica! Tunis! Mussolini’s Dream Lands, 1940

Newman, Bernard, British Journey, 1945

Newman, Bernard, Middle Eastern Journey, 1947

Newman, Bernard, The Lazy Meuse, 1949

Newman, Bernard, The Sisters Alsace-Lorraine, 1950

Newman, Bernard, Oberammergau Journey, 1951

Newman, Bernard, Both Sides of the Pyrenees, 1952

Newman, Bernard, Ride to Rome, 1953

Newman, Bernard, Berlin and Back, 1954

Newman, Bernard, Still Flows the Danube, 1955

Newman, Bernard, Visa to Russia, 1959

Newman has probably been the most prolific of all cyclo-travel writers and is interesting in his focus on Europe alone, particularly as his writing spans World War II and its aftermath.

Nicholl, Charles, Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma, 1988

Nichols, Alan, Journey: A Bicycle Odyssey through Central Asia, 1991

O’Connor, Frank, Irish Miles, 1947; reprinted with an introduction by Brendan Kennelly, 1988

Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, To Gipsyland, illustrated by Joseph Pennell, 1893

Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, Over the Alps on a Bicycle, illustrated by Joseph Pennell, 1898

Pennell, Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell, A Canterbury Pilgrimage, 1885

Pennell, Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Two Pilgrims’ Progress, 1886; as An Italian Pilgrimage, 1887

Pennell, Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, 1888

The Pennells were an Anglo-American couple and reflect these two nations’ domination of cycling culture at the time they were writing. Joseph’s illustrations are typical of the work that many cyclists developed, a style that informed probably the most significant cyclo-illustrator of the 20th century, Frank Patterson, whose work in Cycling magazine (London) set the image of the cycle as a means to explore the wide open countryside.

Pham, Andrew X., Catfish and Mandala: A Two-wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam, 2000

Pollock, Wilfred, War and a Wheel: The Graeco-Turkish War as Seen from a Bicycle, 1897

Reynolds, Jim, The Outer Path: Finding My Way in Tibet, edited by Kathleen Hallam, introduction by the Dalai Lama, 1992

Roberts, Stephen K., Computing across America: The Bicycle Odyssey of a High-tech Nomad, 1988

Rutter, Frank, The Path to Paris: The Rambling Record of a Riverside Promenade, illustrated by Hanslip Fletcher, 1908

Sanders, Nick, The Great Bike Ride: Around the World in Eighty Days, 1988

Sang Ye, with Nicholas Jose and Sue Trevaskes, The Finish Line: A Long March by Bicycle through China and Australia, 1994

Savage, Barbara, Miles from Nowhere: A Round-the-world Bicycle Adventure, edited by Diane Hammond, 1983

Selby, Bettina, Riding the Mountains Down, 1984

Selby, Bettina, Riding to Jerusalem, 1985

Selby, Bettina, Riding the Desert Trail, 1988

Selby, Bettina, The Fragile Islands: A Journey through the Outer Hebrides, 1989

Selby, Bettina, Riding North One Summer, 1990

Selby, Bettina, Frail Dream of Timbuktu, 1991

Selby, Bettina, Beyond Ararat: A Journey through Eastern Turkey, 1993

Selby, Bettina, Pilgrim’s Road: A Journey to Santiago de Compostela, 1994

Selby, Bettina, Like Water in a Dry Land: A Journey into Modern Israel, 1996

Sheldon-Williams, Inglis, A Dawdle in France, 1926

Sheldon-Williams, Inglis, A Dawdle in Lombardy and Venice, 1928

Shuttleworth, W.S. Yorke, Eyatkuhnen to Langenweddingen by Bicycle, 1879

Stevens, Thomas, Around the World on a Bicycle, vol. 1: From San Francisco to Teheran, 1887

Stevens, Thomas, Around the World on a Bicycle, vol. 2: From Teheran to Yokohama, 1888

Stevens’s round-the-world ride became the model for epic tours, a form that has remained the archetype of cyclo-travel writing. His account is lively and very readable, and enjoyed both full and abridged reprints in the 1980s.

Sutherland, Louise, I Follow the Wind, 1960

Thomson, Alex and Nick Rossiter, Ram Ram India: Notes from a Ride in the Subcontinent, 1987

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, Our Cycling Tour in England, 1892

Urrutia, Virginia, Two Wheels and a Taxi: A Slightly Daft Adventure in the Andes, 1987

Vantress, Sally, Seeing Myself, Seeing the World: A Woman’s Journey around the World on a Bicycle, 1990

Vernon, Tom, Fat Man on a Bicycle, 1981

Vernon, Tom, Fat Man on a Roman Road, 1983

Vernon, Tom, Fat Man in Argentina, 1990

Vickers, Simon, Between the Hammer and the Sickle: Across Russia by Bicycle, 1992

Wallington, Mark, Destination Lapland: A Journey to the Far North, 1987

Wells, H.G., The Wheels of Chance: A Holiday Adventure, 1896

Cyclo-novel about a shopkeeper’s assistant (Mr Hoopdriver) conducting a holiday tour on a second-hand (and by the time of writing obsolete) solid-tyred safety, in a vain effort to emulate those of higher social class. It was written at the height of the “bicycle boom” and is based on actual experience of the route.

Wilson, David A., Ireland, a Bicycle and a Tin Whistle, illustrated by Justin Palmer, 1995

Winder, Tom, Around the United States by Bicycle, 1895

Workman, Fanny Bullock and William Hunter Workman, Algerian Memories: A Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara, 1895

Workman, Fanny Bullock and William Hunter Workman, Sketches Awheel in Fin de Siècle Iberia, 1897

Workman, Fanny Bullock and William Hunter Workman, Through Town and Jungle: 14,000 Miles Awheel among the Temples and Peoples of the Indian Plain, 1904

Wray, W. Fitzwater, Across France in War Time, 1916

Young, Jim and Elizabeth Young, Bicycle Built for Two, 1940

Further Reading

Ritchie, Andrew, King of the Road: An Illustrated History of Cycling, London: Wildwood House, and Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press, 1975

Van der Plas, Rob (editor), Cycle History: Proceedings of the … International Cycle History Conference, edited by Rob van der Plas, San Francisco: Van Der Plas, 1993[-]

These books contain published papers delivered to the academic forum on cycling history, held annually since 1990, many of which discuss cyclo-travel writing.

Williams, Edward, A Bibliography of Cycling Books, Coventry: National Cycle Archive, 1993[-]

This is a comprehensive listing of all cycling-related books from 1819 to publication and is frequently updated. Its compiler Edward Williams also published The Pocket Bibliography of Cycling Books, 1993. The National Cycle Archive is based in the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University, Coventry, England, and has considerable holdings of primary material including some unpublished cyclo-travel writing.

Big Game Hunting

Hunting Narratives

Akeley, Carl E., In Brightest Africa, 1923

Akeley, Delia J., Jungle Portraits, 1930

Baillie-Grohman, William A., Camps in the Rockies, 1882

Baillie-Grohman, William A., Sport in the Alps in the Past and Present, 1896

Baillie-Grohman, William A., Fifteen Years’ Sport and Life in the Hunting Grounds of Western America and British Columbia, 1900

Baker, Samuel W., The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon, 1854

Baker, Samuel W., Eight Years’ Wanderings in Ceylon, 1855

Baldwin, William Charles, African Hunting, from Natal to the Zambesi, 1863; 3rd edition, as African Hunting and Adventure, 1894

Benavides, Alonso de, Memorial, 1630; as Benavides’ Memorial of 1630, translated by Peter Forrestal, 1954

Berkeley, Grantly F., The English Sportsman in the Western Prairies, 1861

Berners, Juliana, The Boke of Saint Albans, 1486; facsimile, 1969

Braddon, Edward, Thirty Years of Shikar, 1895

Burchell, William John, Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vols, 1822[-]24; reprinted, 1953

Burn-Murdoch, W.G., Modern Whaling and Bear-Hunting, 1917

Catlin, George, Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, 1845

Chapman, Abel and Walter J. Buck, Wild Spain, 1893

Chapman, Abel, Retrospect: Reminiscences and Impressions of a Hunter-Naturalist in Three Continents, illustrations by Chapman, 1928

Churchill, Winston S., My African Journey, 1908

Cokayne, Sir Thomas, A Short Treatise of Hunting, 1591; facsimile, 1932

Corbett, Jim, Man-Eaters of Kumaon, 1944

Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon, Five Years of a Hunter’s Life in the Far Interior of South Africa, 2 vols, 1850

Eardley-Wilmot, Sainthill, Forest Life and Sport in India, 1910

Edward, 2nd Duke of York, The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting, edited by William A. and F. Baille-Grohman, 1909

Gaston Phébus, comte de Foix, Le Livre de la chasse, facsimile, 2 vols, 1976

Gillmore, Parker, Leaves from a Sportsman’s Diary, 1893

Glasfurd, A.I.R, Rifle and Romance in the Indian Jungle, 1905

Graham, Frederick Ulric, Notes of a Sporting Expedition in the Far West of Canada, 1847, edited by Jane Hermione Graham, 1898

Gregg, Josiah, Commerce of the Prairies, 2 vols, 1844

Grew, J.C., Sport and Travel in the Far East, 1910

Grinnell, George Bird (editor), Hunting at High Altitudes, 1913

Harris, William Cornwallis, The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, 1839

Hemingway, Ernest, Green Hills of Africa, 1935

Herbert, Henry William (as Frank Forester), Field Sports in the United States and the British Provinces of America, 2 vols, 1848; later editions as Frank Forester’s Field Sports

Herbert, Henry William, American Game in Its Seasons, 1853

Herne, Peregrine, Perils and Pleasures of a Hunter’s Life; or, The Romance of Hunting, 1854

Hibben, Frank C., Hunting American Lions, illustrated by Paul Bransom, 1948

Hornaday, William T., Two Years in the Jungle: The Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo, 1885

Hornaday, William T., “The Extermination of the American Bison”, Smithsonian Institution Annual Report, 1886-87, part 2 (1889)

Hornaday, William T., Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies, 1906

Hornaday, William T., Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava, 1908

Hornaday, William T., Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation, 1913

House, Edward J., A Hunter’s Camp-Fires, 1909

Johnson, Daniel, Sketches of Field Sports as Followed by the Natives of India, 1822

Jones, C.J., Buffalo Jones’ Forty Years of Adventure, 1899

Leveson, Henry Astbury, Sport in Many Lands, 2 vols, 1877

Lewis, Meriwether, William Clark et al., History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri, edited by Nicholas Biddle, 2 vols, 1814

Markham, Gervase, Countrey Contentments, 1615; facsimile, 1973

Martindale, Thomas, Sport Indeed, 1901

Martindale, Thomas, With Gun and Guide, 1910

Murphy, John Mortimer, Sporting Adventures in the Far West, 1879

Neumann, Arthur H., Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa, 1898

Palliser, John, Solitary Rambles and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies, 1853 Parkman, Francis, The California and Oregon Trail, 1849

Phillips, John C., A Sportsman’s Scrapbook, 1928

Phillips, John C., A Sportsman’s Second Scrapbook, 1933

Phillipps-Wolley, Clive, Big Game Shooting, 2 vols, 1894

Polo, Marco, The Description of the World, edited and translated by A.C. Moule and Paul Pelliot, 2 vols, 1938

Prichard, H.V.H., Hunting Camps in Wood and Wilderness, 1910

Roe, Thomas, The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615[-]1619, as Narrated in His Journal and Correspondence, edited by William Foster, 2 vols, 1899

Roosevelt, Theodore, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, 1885

Roosevelt, Theodore, The Wilderness Hunter: An Account of the Big Game of the United States and Its Chase with Horse, Hound, and Rifle, 1893

Roosevelt, Theodore and George Bird Grinnell (editors), Hunting in Many Lands, 1895

Roosevelt, Theodore, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, 1905

Roosevelt, Theodore, African Game Trails, 1910

Ross, Alexander, The Fur Hunters of the Far West, 2 vols, 1855

Rudolf of Austria, Notes on Sport and Ornithology, translated by C.G. Danford, 1889

Sabretache, Monarchy and the Chase, 1948

Sage, Rufus B., Rocky Mountain Life, 1857

Sanderson, G.P., Thirteen Years among the Wild Beasts of India, 1878

Selous, Frederick Courteney, A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa, 1881; 5th edition, 1907

Selous, Percy, Travel and Big Game, 1897

Seton-Karr, H.W., Ten Years’ Wild Sports in Foreign Lands; or, Travels in the Eighties, 1889

Shakespear, Henry, The Wild Sports of India, 1860

Shields, G.O., Rustlings in the Rockies, 1883

Shields, G.O. (editor), The Big Game of North America, 1890

Shorthose, W.T., Sport and Adventure in Africa, 1923

Smith, Andrew, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa, 5 vols, 1838[-]49

Stebbing, E.P., The Diary of a Sportsman Naturalist in India, 1920

Stigand, C.H., Hunting the Elephant in Africa, with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt, 1913

Todd, W. Hogarth, Work, Sport and Play: An Englishman’s Life in India before the War, 1928

Turbervile, George (attributed), The Noble Arte of Venerie or Hunting, 1575

Turner-Turner, J., Three Years’ Hunting and Trapping in America and the Great North-West, 1888

Twiti, William, The Art of Hunting, 1327, edited by Bror Danielsson, 1977

Ward, Rowland, The Sportsman’s Handbook to Practical Collecting, Preserving, and Artistic Setting-Up of Trophies and Specimens, 1880; 11th edition, 1923

Webber, C.W., The Hunter-Naturalist, 1851

Whitney, Caspar, On Snow-shoes to the Barren Grounds, 1896

Whitney, Caspar, Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat, 1904

Williamson, Thomas, Oriental Field Sports, 2 vols, 1808

Wyndham-Quin, Windham Thomas, Earl of Dunraven. Canadian Nights, 1914

Wyndham-Quin, Windham Thomas, Hunting in the Yellowstone, 1917

Xenophon and Arrian, Xenophon and Arrian on Hunting, edited by A.A. Phillips and M.M. Willcock, 1999

Isabella L. Bird 1831[-]1904

British travel writer

Travel Writing

The Englishwoman in America (published anonymously), 1856

The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, & Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands, 1875

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 1879; reprinted with an introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1960; with an introduction by Pat Barr, 1982

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé, 1880; as Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé, 1881

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither, 1883

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs, 1891

Among the Tibetans, 1894

Korea and Her Neighbours: A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country, 1897

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory, 1899

Chinese Picture, 1900 (illustrations)

This Grand Beyond: The Travels of Isabella Bird Bishop, edited by Cicely Palser Havely, 1984

Further Reading

Barr, Pat, A Curious Life for a Lady: The Story of Isabella Bird, London: Macmillan, and New York: Doubleday, 1970

Stoddart, Anna M., The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs Bishop), Hon. Member of the Oriental Society of Pekin [sic], FRGS, FRSGS, London: John Murray, 1906

Black Sea

Travel Writing

Anthoine de Saint-Joseph, Antoine-Ignace, Essai historique sur le commerce et la navigation de la mer noire, 1805

As a French envoy he pursued the project of a French-Russian-Polish trade union for the commerce on the Black Sea.

Alexander, James Edward, Travels to the Seat of War in the East, through Russia and the Crimea in 1829, 2 vols, 1830

Alexander (1803[-]1885), a prominent officer, did several private and official voyages to Asia and Africa. He published several books of travel.

Arnold, R. Arthur, From the Levant, the Black Sea and the Danube, 2 vols, 1868

The politician, social reformer and journalist (1833[-]1902) travelled the areas named for two years and published his travelogue as a collection of letters describing his tour.

Arrian, Périple du Pont-Euxin, edited and translated by Alain Silberman, 1995

Besse, Jean Charles de, Voyage en Crimée au Caucase en Géorgie. 1829 et 1830, pour servir à l’histoire de Hongrie, 1838

The adventurer and philologist tried to discover the roots of the Hungarian language in the areas mentioned.

Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, De Thematibus, edited by Allesandro Pertusi, 1952

Craven, Elisabeth [Countess], A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, in a Series of letters from the Right Honourable E. Lady C. To His Serene Highness the Margrave of Brandenbourg, 1789

Craven, famous in the London society of her days, was invited by the Margrave of Brandenbourg to his court. On the way there, she travels to Constantinople and informs her lover with letters of great literary quality.

Curtis, William Eleroy, Around the Black Sea, Asia Minor, Armenia, Caucasus, Circassia, Daghestan, the Crimea and Roumania, 1911

The American author and journalist (1850[-]1923) undertook extensive travels to several parts of the world and published books on them.

Dearborn, Henry A.S., A Memoir on the Commerce and Navigation of the Black Sea, and the Trade and Maritime Geography of Turkey and Egypt, 2 vols, 1819

Dearborn was American ambassador to Portugal, army officer, congressman and later secretary of war.

Démidov, Anatole de, Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie, exécuté en 1837, 4 vols, 1840[-]42; vol. 1 of the first edition translated as Travels in Southern Russia and the Crimea, through Hungary, Wallachia and Moldavia during the Year 1837, 1853

Démidov (1812[-]1870) was a descendant of the famous Russian family of industrialists and patrons of arts. He gives a travelogue of the expedition, scientific results and also statistical material concerning the population and economy of this Russian sphere of influence.

De Ros, William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald, Journal of a Tour in the Principalities, Crimea, and Countries adjacent to the Black Sea in the Years 1835[-]1836, 1855

Description of an extended continential tour with a variety of personal impressions. The author participated in the Crimean War.

Engelhardt, Moritz and Friedrich Parrot, Reise in die Krim und den Kaukasus, 1815

Account of two scientists, the first one a teacher, the other his pupil, concerning their journey and surveyings, but also their mountaneering of the Kasbek.

Eton, William, A Concise Account of the Commerce and Navigation of the Black Sea: From Recent and Authentic Information, 1805

The British consul in Russia and Constantinople in the 1790s offers facts for merchants.

Evliya Çelebi, Seyahatnamesi, 10 vols, 1896[-]1938; as Müntekhabat-i Ewliya Çelebi, edited by Ahmed Djewdet and Nedjib Asim, vols 1[-]6 in arabic letters, 7[-]10 in latin script, 1896[-]1938; parts as Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century, translated by Joseph von Hammer, 1834[-]50; Evliya Çelebi’s Book of Travels: Land and People of the Ottoman Empire in the Seventeenth Century, A Corpus of Partial Editions, translated by Klaus Kreiser, 1988[-]2000

Fallmerayer, Jacob Philipp, Fragmente aus dem Orient, 2 parts, 1845

The books of Fallmerayer promoted the fundamentals of Byzantinistics. Three journeys to the East are described, one led him in the area of Trebizond.

Gonzaléz de Clavijo, Ruy, Historia del gran Tamorlan, 1582; as Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the Court of Timour, at Samarcand, ad 1403[-]6, translated by Clement R. Markham, 1859

Secretary of the Spanish ambassador at Timurs court in 1404 he gives some information of observations during his journey.

Guthrie, Maria, A Tour Performed in the Years 1795[-]6 through the Taurida or Crimea: The Ancient Kingdom of Bosphorus, the Once-Powerful Republic of Tauric Chersa, and all the Other Countries on the North Shore of the Euxine, 1802

Guthrie was a teacher at the imperial convent of Russian nobility. Before returning to Britain she travelled to New Russia.

Heath, Leopold George, Letters from the Black Sea during the Crimean War, 1854[-]1855, 1897

Admiral Heath (1817[-]1907) participated in the Crimean War as captain of the Royal Navy. Besides military details the letters describe landscape, people and manners of the Pontic region.

Holderness, Mary, New Russia: Journey from Riga to the Crimea by way of Kiev; with someAccount of the Colonization and the Manners and Customs of the Colonists of New Russia, 1823

Kohl, J.G., Reisen in Südrussland, 1843; as Russia: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kharkoff, Riga, Odessa, the German Provinces on the Baltic, the Steppes, the Crimea, and the Interior of the Empire, 1842

Kohl (1808[-]1878) was a professional writer of travelogues and prominent in the Germany of his days.

Kleemann, Nicolaus Ernst, Reisen von Wien über Belgrad bis Kilianova durch die Butschiak-Tartarey über Kavschan, Bender in die Krimm, dann von Kaffa nach Konstantinopel, nach Smirna, und durch den Archipelagum nach Triest und Wien in den Jahren 1768, 1769 und 1770, 1771

The Austrian merchant’s, travel report had three editions in the 18th century. Kleemann was charged with a fact-finding mission in matters of trade by the imperial government.

Lechevalier, Jean-Baptiste, Voyage de la Propontide et du Pont-Euxin avec la carte générale de ces deux mers, 2 vols, 1800

Lechevalier had mainly archaeologiacal interests and is more known for his books concerning the localization of homeric Troy. Morrit, Hawkins, Gell, Hamilton, Foster and Leake took up his ideas. His description of the Black Sea area is more effective and contains contemporary geographic, ethnographic and archaeological facts.

Libadenos, Andrew, Andreou Libadenou bios kai erga, edited by Odysseus Lampsides, 1975

Macintosh, Alexander Fisher, A Military Tour in European Turkey, the Crimea, and on the Eastern Shores of the Black Sea, 2 vols, 1854

General Macintosh (1795[-]1868) traveled as an adviser of the Ottoman government in military affairs. He describes the geography and history of the traveled areas, gives detailed maps and is especially interested in military facilities.

Membrè, Michele, Relazione di Persia, 1542; as Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia (1539[-]1542), translated with an introduction and notes by A.H. Morton, 1993

Membrè (1509[-]1594) was collaborator in a Venetian mission to the Persian court of Shah Tahmasp. To get there he crossed the Black Sea from Samsun to Caffa.

Menavino, Giovanni Antonio, I cinque libri della legge, religione et vita de ‘ Turchi: et della corte et d’alcune guerre del Gran Turco: di Giovan Antonio Menavino Genovese de Vultri. Oltre cio, una Prophetia de’ Mahomettani, et la miseria de’ prigioni, et de’ Christiani, che vivono sotto ‘l Gran Turco et altre cose Turchese, non piu vedute. Tradotte da M. Lodovico Domenichi, 1548

Montadon, Charles H., Guide du Voyageur en Crimée: Orné des cartes et précédé d’une introduction sur les differentes manièrs de se rendre d’Odessa en Crimée, 1834

Müller, Karl (editor), Geographi Graeci Minores, 2 vols, 1855[-]61; reprinted, 1965

Novosiltsev, Ivan Petrovich, 1570; in Puteshestviya Russkikh Poslov, XVI-XVIIvv., (1954): 63[-]99

Oliphant, Laurence, The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the Autumn of 1852: With a Voyage down the Volga, and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks, 1853

Oliphant (1829[-]1888) was a travel writer and mystic. As a war correspondent he participated in the Crimean War. His travelogue had four editions until 1854.

Peyssonell, Claude Charles de, Traité sur le commerce de la mer noire, 1787

As a diplomat he traveled on the Crimea in 1753, later he was French consul at Smyrna. Peyssonell submitted this later well known text as a report to the French government in 1755. It offers general facts and detailed specifications of import and export in the Black Sea ports.

Potocki, Jan, Memoire sur un noveau Peryple du Pont-Euxin ainsi que sur la plus ancienne histoire de peuple du Taurus, du Caucase et de la Scythie, 1795

Polish count, politician, traveller and historian (1761[-]1815). He did preliminary studies for a great ancient history of Slavic peoples and had strong ethnographic interests tracing back to Herodotus’ work.

Quin, Michael Joseph., A Steam Voyage down the Danube, With Sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Servia and Turkey, 2 vols, 1835

Quin, a traveller and political writer, was an extensive contributor to periodical publications. He also published six travelogues characterizing voyages on the continent. One part of the book named describes the way from the mouth of the Danube along the western shores of the Black Sea to Constantinople.

Reuilly, Jean Baron de, Voyage en Crimée et sur les bords de la mer Noire, pendant l’année 1803, 1806; as Travels in the Crimea, and along the Shores of the Black Sea, 1807

As a colloborator of the French foreign ministry the traveller and adventurer went to Russia and described the peninsula considerating the possibilities of trade in the region, but also his alpinist performances.

Schiltberger, Johann, Hie vahet an d’ schildberger der vil wunders erfaren hatt in der heydenschafft und in d’türcken, 1473; as The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger: A Native of Bavaria in Europe, Asia and Africa 1396[-]1427, translated by Buchan Telfer and Philipp Bruun, 1879

Seymour, H.D., Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Asoff: Being a Narrative of Travels in the Crimea and Bordering Provinces; with Notices of the Naval, Military and Commercial Resources of those Countries, 1855

Another Englishman travelling the places of the great war and describing an area of great interest in these times.

Slade, Adolphus, Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c. and of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831, 2 vols, 1833

Slade, Adolphus, Travels in Germany and Russia: Including a Steam Voyage by the Danube and the Euxine from Vienna to Constantinople, in 1838[-]39, 1840

Slade (1804[-]1877), an English naval officer, was lent to the Porte and became the administrative head of the Ottoman navy. He also published an account of the Crimean War from the Turkish point of view.

Smolensk, Ignatij, Russian Travelers to Constantinople in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, translated and edited by George P. Majesta, 1984

Ignatij traveled from Moscow to Constantinople on the Don River crossing the Black Sea in 1389. The work offers a selective diary of his observations giving meticulous details.

Spencer, Edmund, Travels in Circassia, Krim-Tartary, &c., including a Steam Voyage down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black Sea in 1836, 2 vols, 1837; as Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Circassia, 1854

The British travel writer published several other books, historical romances and a report concerning the fall of the Crimea.

Steinbuechel von Rheinwall, Anton, Neueste Dampfschiffahrt von Wien nach Trapezunt, oder die grosse Donaustrasse zu einem der reichsten Ansitze des asiatischen Welthandels, 1838

Rheinwall (1790[-]1877) was an Austrian classical scholar and official in the imperial collections. His report is a mixture of history book and travelogue.

Struve, Johann Christian von, Reise eines jungen Russen von Wien über Jassy in die Krim, 1801; as Travels in the Crimea: A History of the Embassy from Petersburg to Constantinope in 1793, translated from the German, 1802

The German aristocrat (1768[-]1812) works for the Russian court and describes his journey with a legation to the Ottoman capital during which he crosses the Black Sea starting from the meanwhile Russian Crimea.

Taitbout de Marigny, Jacques Victor Edouard, Voyages en Circassie (en 1818) par le Chevalier Taitbout de Marigny. Avec vues, etc., 1836; translated as Three Voyages in the Black Sea to the Coast of Circassia, 1837

Taitbout de Marigny, (1793[-]1852), a French aristocrat, did several expeditions in the region, also wrote a manual of navigation on the Black Sea and worked for the tsar as a consul.

Telfer, John Buchan, The Crimea and Transcaucasia: being the narrative of a Journey in the Kouban, in Gouria, Georgia, Armenia, Ossety, Ineritia, Swannety, and Mingrelia and in the Tauric Range, 2 vols, 1876

Telfer had strong historical interests, he translated and edited the 14th century work of Schiltberger, whose route he partially imitated.

Verne, Jules, Kéraban-le-têtu, 2 vols, 1883, as Keraban the Inflexible, 2 vols, 1884[-]85

The Turkish merchant Keraba prefers a journey round the Black Sea to paying a new tax for crossing the Bosporus. The novel contains much knowledge Verne took from contemporary travelogues.

Further Reading

Anochin, Vladilen A., “Die Pontische Expedition des Perikles und der Kimmerische Bosporos (437 v. Chr.)” in Stephanos nomismatikos: Edith Schönert-Geiss zum 65. Geburtstag, edited by Ulrike Peter, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1998

Armayor, O. Kimball, “Did Herodotus Ever Go to the Black Sea?”, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 82 (1978): 45[-]62

Armayor, O. Kimball, “Sesostris and Herodotus’ Autopsy of Thrace, Colchis, inland Asia Minor and the Levant”, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 84 (1980): 52[-]74

Balard, Michel, La Romanie génoise: XIIIe[-]XV siècles, Rome: École Française de Rome, 2 vols, 1978; reprinted as La mer Noire et La Romanie génoise: XIIIe[-]XV siècles, London: Variorum, 1989

Bratianu, Georges I., La Mer Noire: Des origines à la conquête ottomane, Monachii: Societas Academiaca Dacoromana, 1969

Many sources and among them travelogues are cited.

Braund, David C., “Greeks and Barbarians: The Black Sea Region and Hellenism under the Early Empire” in The Early Roman Empire in the East, edited by Susan E. Alcock, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1997

Bryce, Trevor R., The Major Historical Texts of Early Hittite History, Queensland: University of Queensland, 1982

Danoff, Christo, entry on Pontos Euxeinos in Paulys Real-Encyclipädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Supplementband 9, 866[-]1175, edited by Konrat Ziegler, Stuttgart: Druckenmüller, 1962

Dankhoff, Robert and Klaus Kreiser, Materialien zu Evliya Çelebi: A Guide to the Seyahat-name of Evliya Çelebi: Bibliographie raisonnée, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1992

Descoeudres, Jean-Paul (editor), Greek Colonists and Native Populations, Oxford: Clarendon Press, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990

Ehrhardt, Norbert, Milet und seine Kolonien: Vergleichende Untersuchung der kultischen und politischen Einrichtungen, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1983

Florescu, Radu R.N., The Struggle against Russia in the Roumanian Principalities 1821[-]1854, Monachii: Societas Academiaca Dacoromana, 1962

The bibliographic part of the book contains an annotated list of contemporary memoirs, pamphlets and travelogues.

Fossey, John M. (editor), Antiquitates Proponticae. Circumponticae et Caucasiae: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Archaeology and History of the Black Sea, Amsterdam: Greben, 1997

Franklin, Simon, entry on Ignatij of Smolensk in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, edited by Alexander P. Kazhdan, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991

Haas, Volkert, Geschichte der hethitischen Religion, Leiden: E.J. sBrill, 1994

Hind, John G., “Colonies and Ports-of-Trade on the Northern Shores of the Black Sea: Borysthenes, Kremnoi and the ‘Other Pontic Emporia’” in Yet More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis, edited by Thomas Heine Nielsen, Stuttgart: Steiner, 1997

Hoffner, Harry A. Jr (translator), Hittite Myths, edited by Gary M. Beckman, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990

Horowitz, Wayne, Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography, Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1998

Hunger, Herbert, Die hochsprachliche profane Literatur der Byzantiner, vols 1[-]2, Munich: Beck, 1978

See especially the chapter “geography”, vol. 1, p.508[-]38

Ivantchik, Askold, “Les légendes de fondation de Sinope du Pont”, REA, 100 (1998): 33[-]45

Kazhdan, Alexander P. and Anthony Cutler, entry on Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, edited by Kazhdan, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991

Klengel, Horst et al., Geschichte des Hethitischen Reiches, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998

Kopylov, Victor P. (editor), International Relations in the Black Sea Basin in Ancient and Medieval Times (Abstracts of the 7th International Conference, Rostov-on-Don), 1994

Lipka, Michael, “Anmerkungen zu geographischen, wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Verhältnissen an der südöstlichen Schwarzmeerküste Ende des fünften / Anfang des vierten Jhs. v. Chr., Klio”, 77 (1995): 65[-]74

Lordkipanidze, Otar D. (editor), Problemy grecheskoi kolonizatsii severnogo: vostochnogo prichernomoriia [Problems of Greek Colonization of the Northern and Eastern Black Sea Littoral], Tbilisi: Metsniereba, 1979

Lordkipanidze, Otar D. (editor), Demograficheskaia situatsiia v prichernomorie v period velikoi greschkia kolonatsii [The Demographic Situation in the Black Sea Littoral in the Period of Greek Colonization], Tbilisi: Metsniereba, 1981

Lordkipanidze, Otar D. (editor), The Black Sea Littoral in the Hellenistic Times, Tbilisi, 1985

Lordkipanidze, Otar D. (editor), Local Ethno-Political Entities of the Black Sea Area in the 7th[-]4th Centuries bc, Tbilisi: Metsniereba, 1988

Lordkipanidze, Otar D. (editor), Prichernomor’e VII[-]V vv. do m.e.: pismennye istochniki i archeologiia [The Black Sea Littoral in the 7th-5th Centuries bc: Literary Sources and Archaeology (Problem of Authenticity)], Tbilisi: Metsniereba, 1990

Lordkipanidze, Otar and Pierre Lévêque, Le Pont-Euxin vu par les Grecs: Sources écrites, et archaologie, edited by Tea Khartchilava and Evelyne Gery, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1990

Lordkipanidze , Otar D.and Pierre Lévêque (editors), La Mer Noire comme zone du contact, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1999

Majeska, George P., Russian Travelers to Constantinople in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1984

Majeska, George P., “Russo-Byzantine Relations 1240[-]1453: A Traffic Report” in Acts XVIIIth International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Selected Papers: Main and Communications Moscow 1991, vol.1, edited by Ihor Sevcenko and Gennady Litavrin, Shepherdstown: Byzantine Studies Press, 1996

Lists many, mainly unpublished, travel reports of Russians going to Constantinople.

Paravicini, Werner (editor), Europäische Reiseberichte des späten Mittelalters: Eine analytische Biographie, part 1 by Christian Halm, Deutsche Reiseberichte, Frankfurt: P. Lang, 1994; part 2 by Joerg Wettlaufer, Französische Reiseberichte, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1999

Pippidi, D.M., Scythica Minora: Recherches sur les colonies grecques du littoral roumain de la mer Noire, Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakert, 1975

Podossinov, Alexander, Ovids Dichtung als Quelle für die Geschichte des Schwarzmeergebiets, Konstanz: Universitatsverlag Koustanz, 1987

Rollinger, Robert and Christoph Ulf (editors), Geschlechterrollen und Frauenbild in der Perspektive antiker Autoren, Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2000

Saprykin, Sergei Y., “Proxenic Decrees of Tauric Chersonesus and the Sea-Routes in Pontus-Euxeinus”, Orbis Terrarum, 5 (1999): pages

Sarnowski, Tadeusz and O.J. Savelja, “Zum religiösen Leben der niedermoesischen Vexillationen auf der Südkrim. Inschriftenfunde aus dem neuentdeckten Dolichenum von Balaklawa”, Historia, 47 (1998): 321[-]41

Sodoffsky, Gustav, Streifzüge durch die Krim, Leipzig: Hirschfeld, 1911

Gives a great many references of 18th and 19th century books and travelogues concerning the Crimea but many citations are incomplete.

Talbot, Alice Mary, entry on Libadenos Andrew in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, vol. 2, edited by Alexander P. Kazhdan, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991

Talbot, Alice Mary, entry on Matthew of Khazaria in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, vol. 2, edited by Alexander P. Kazhdan, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991

Trapp, Erich, entry on Libadenos Andreas in Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit, vol. 12, edited by Trapp, Vienna: ÖAW, 1989

Tsetskhladze, Gocha R., “Greek Penetration of the Black Sea” in The Archaeology of Greek Colonisation: Essays Dedicated to Sir John Boardman, edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze and Franco De Angelis, Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 1994

Tsetskhladze, Gocha R. (editor), New Studies on the Black Sea Littoral, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1996

Tsetskhladze, Gocha R. (editor), The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea: Historical Interpretation of Archaeology, Stuttgart: Steiner, 1998

Tsetskhladze, Gocha R., “Trade on the Black Sea in the Archaic and Classical Periods: Some Observations” in Trade, Traders, and the City, edited by Christopher Smith and Helen Parkins, London and New York: Routledge, 1998

Tsetskhladze, Gocha R., Die Griechen in der Kolchis (historisch-archäologischer Abriss), Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1998

Vasiliev, Alexander Alexandrovich, The Goths in the Crimea, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1936

Vinogradov, Iurii and Sergej D. Kryzickij, Olbia: Eine altgriechische Stadt im nordwestlichen Schwarzmeerraum, Leiden and New York: E.J. Brill, 1995

Vinogradov, Iurii, Pontische Studien: Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte und Epigraphik des Schwarzmeerraumes, edited by Heinz Heinen, Mainz: von Zabern, 1997

Yerasimos, Stephane, Les Voyageurs dans l’empire ottoman, XIVe[-] XVIe siècles:. Bibliografie, Itinéraires et Inventaire des lieux habités, Ankara: Société Turque d’Histoire, 1991

P. 57 and 58 give an overview and list all writers touching the Black Sea area, which are carefully described in the main part, listing many editions and citations. Some references are incomplete or wrong.

Karen Blixen 1885[-]1962

Danish short-story writer, novelist, and translator

Travel Writing

Out of Africa, 1937; as Den afrikanske farm, 1937

Shadows on the Grass, 1960; as Skygger paa graesset, 1960

Breve fra Afrika, 2 vols, edited by Frans Lasson, 1978; as Letters from Africa, 1914[-]1931, translated by Anne Born, 1 vol., 1981

Blixen’s posthumously published correspondence is the best record of her time in Africa (not the romantic Africa she invented, but the Africa in which she actually lived).

Further Reading

Aiken, Susan Hardy, Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990

The author argues that Blixen, through her narrative strategies, challenges the racial ideologies of colonialism.

Aschan, Ulf, The Man Whom Women Loved: The Life of Bror Blixen, New York: St Martin’s Press, 1987

The author, Bror’s nephew, depicts the Baron as the archetype of the Great White Hunter and a romantic figure of mythic passions for women.

Blixen-Finecke, Bror von, The African Hunter, translated by F.H. Lyon, London: Cassell, 1937

The Baron’s highly readable, highly masculine autobiography.

Cooper, Brenda, “ ‘It Had No Voice to It’: Sydney Pollack’s Film Translation of Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa”, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 82/3 (August 1996): 228[-]50

Examines Pollack’s film adaptation and its representation of race, sex roles, and colonialism.

Foster, John Burt, “Cultural Multiplicity in Two Modern Autobiographies: Friedlander’s When Memory Comes and Dinesen’s Out of Africa”, Southern Humanities Review, 24/3 (Summer 1995): 205[-]18

Examines how Blixen’s work and Friedlander’s memoir of the Holocaust offer similar experiences of cultural multiplicity.

Gurnah, Abdulrazak, “Settler Writing in Kenya: ‘Nomenclature Is an Uncertain Science in These Wild Parts’” in Modernism and Empire, edited by Howard J. Booth and Nigel Rigby, Manchester: University of Manchester Press, and New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000

Compares Elspeth Huxley and Blixen and their colonial attitudes.

Horton, Susan R., Difficult Women, Artful Lives: Olive Schreiner and Isak Dinesen, in and Out of Africa, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

Compares Schreiner and Blixen’s treatment of Africa while detailing their lives.

Huxley, Elspeth, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood, London: Chatto and Windus, and New York: Morrow, 1959

A fictionalized account of Huxley’s childhood in East Africa.

JanMohamed, Abdul R., Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1983

Argues that Blixen’s romantic picture of Africa masks her pro-colonial views.

Jordan, Edwina, “Early 20th-Century Writers -- In Africa”, English Record 50 / 3 (Spring-Summer 2000): 54[-]58

Offers a pedagogical approach to Blixen’s Out of Africa.

Kamante, Longing for Darkness: Kamante’s Tales from Out of Africa, edited by Peter Beard, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1975

Photographs by Beard and text by Blixen’s cook Kamante Gatura (who was interviewed by Beard) take the reader on a journey to Blixen’s African farm.

Knipp, Thomas, “Kenya’s Literary Ladies and the Mythologizing of the White Highlands”, South Atlantic Review, 55/1 (January 1990): 1[-]16

Examines Blixen’s Out of Africa, Markham’s West with the Night, and Huxley’s The Flame Trees of Thika in relation to audience, persona, and landscape.

Langbaum, Robert, The Gayety of Vision: A Study of Isak Dinesen’s Art, London: Chatto and Windus, 1964; New York: Random House, 1965

Still considered to be the best critic of Blixen’s work, Langbaum focuses on the autobiographical and mythic elements of Out of Africa.

Lee, Judith, “The Mask of Form in Out of Africa”, Prose Studies, 8/2 (September 1985): 45[-]59

Examines the extent to which Out of Africa can be considered a “hybrid text”, both autobiography and fiction.

Lewis, Simon, “Culture, Cultivation, and Colonialism in Out of Africa and Beyond”, Research in African Literatures, 31/1 (Spring 2000): 63[-]79

Examines Blixen’s relationship to colonialism.

Lovell, Mary S., Straight on till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham, London: Hutchinson, and New York: St Martin’s Press, 1987

Focuses on the private life of this remarkable woman.

Luedtke, Kurt, Out of Africa: The Shooting Script, edited and with an introduction by Sydney Pollack, New York: Newmarket Press, 1987

The script to the Oscar-winning film adaptation of Blixen’s Out of Africa.

Markham, Beryl, West with the Night, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942; London: Harrap, 1943

Raised in British East Africa, Markham, who became the colony’s first female horse trainer and later its first female bush pilot, was the first person to fly the Atlantic solo from England to North America in 1936.

Migel, Parmenia, Titania: The Biography of Isak Dinesen, New York: Random House, 1967; London: Michael Joseph, 1968

A close friend of Blixen, Migel bases her biography primarily on interviews with the Danish author.

Myers, David, “From Empire Feudalism and Racism to Commonwealth Citizenship: The View of Four Female Intruders in the Colonial Tropics”, in Australian Literature Today, edited by R.K. Dhawan and David Kerr, New Delhi: Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies, 1993

Examines Doris Lessing, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Jeannie Gunn and We of the Never Never and their views of colonialism, imperialism, racism, and internationalism.

Pelensky, Olga Anastasia, Isak Dinesen: The Life and Imagination of a Seducer, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1991

A biographical study of Blixen’s artistic imagination.

Pelensky, Olga Anastasia (editor), Isak Dinesen: Critical Views, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1993

This collection contains noteworthy, scholarly essays on Blixen’s African memoirs by Judith Lee, Abdul R. JanMohamed, and Robert Langbaum.

Schow, H. Wayne, “Out of Africa, The White Album, and the Possibility of Tragic Affirmation”, English Studies, 67/1 (February 1986): 35[-]50

A comparison of Dinesen’s Out of Africa and Joan Didion’s The White Album (1979).

Schreiner, Olive, The Story of an African Farm, London: chapman and Hall, 1883; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992

The fictional autobiography of this South African writer.

Smith, Sidonie, “The Other Woman and the Racial Politics of Gender: Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham in Kenya” in De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women’s Autobiography, edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992

Examines Markham’s West With the Night and Blixen’s Out of Africa and the views of race, gender, and politics they express.

Thurman, Judith, Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, and New York: St Martin’s Press, 1982

A comprehensive, carefully researched biography of Blixen.

Trzebinski, Errol, Silence Will Speak: A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and His Relationship with Karen Blixen, London: Heinemann, and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977

Explores the life and loves of Blixen’s companion.

Westenholz, Anders, The Power of Aries: Myth and Reality in Karen Blixen’s Life, translated by Lise Kure-Jensen, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987

The author is the grandnephew of Blixen’s uncle, Aage Westenholz, who provided the primary financing for the African farm.

Blue Nile

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Abu al-Fida, Kitab Taqwim al-buldan, edited by J.T. Reinaud and William MacGuckin de Slane, 1840

Ailly, Pierre d’, Imago mundi, translated into English by Edwin F. Keever, 1948

al-Idrisi, Geographie d’Édrisi, translated by P. Amédée Jaubert, 2 vols, 1836[-]40; reprinted, 1984

Almeida, Manuel de, Historia geral de Ethiopia a Alta ou Abassia in Rerum aethiopicarum scriptores occidentales inediti a saeculo XVI ad XIX, edited by Camillo Beccari, vols 5[-]7, 1907[-]08; parts translated as Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593[-]1646, translated and edited by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, 1954

Álvares, Francisco, Verdadeira informação das terras do preste João, segundo vio e escreueu ho Padre Francisco Aluares capellam del rey nosso senhor, 1540; as The Prester John of the Indies: A True Relation of the Lands of the Prester John, Being the Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia in 1520, translated by Lord Stanley of Alderley (1881), revised and edited with additional material by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, 2 vols, 1961

Baker, Samuel W., The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs, 1867

Bruce, James, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773, 5 vols, 1790

Burckhardt, John Lewis, Reisen in Nubien, 1820; as Travels in Nubia, 2nd edition, 1822; reprinted, 1978

Cailliaud, Frédéric, Voyage à Méroé, au Fleuve Blanc, au-delà de Fâzoql dans le midi du royaume de Sennâr, 4 vols, 1826[-]27; reprinted, 1972

Cheesman, R.E., Lake Tana and the Blue Nile: An Abyssinain Quest, 1936; reprinted, 1968

Cosmas Indicopleustes, Ellas topografia, in Patrologiae Graeca, vol. 88, 1860; as The Christian Topography of Cosmas, translated by J.W. McCrindle, 1897

Denon, Vivant, Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte, 2 vols, 1802, edited by Hélène Guichard, Adrien Goetz and Martine Reid, 1998; as Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, translated by Francis Blagdon, 2 vols, 1802; translated by Arthur Aikin, 3 vols, 1803

Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady, Letters from Egypt, 1863[-]65, edited by Sarah Austin, 1865

English, George Bethune, A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar: Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, Undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, 1822

Hayes, Arthur J., The Source of the Blue Nile: A Record of a Journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in Western Abyssinia, and of the Return to Egypt by the Valley of the Atbara, with a Note on the Religion, Customs, etc. of Abyssinia, with an entomological appendix by E.B. Poulton, 1905

Herodotus, The Egypt of Herodotus, being the Second Book, entitled Euterpe, of the History, translated by George Rawlinson, 1924

Herodotus, The History of Herodotus, translated by George Rawlinson, 4 vols, 1858[-]60, and many later editions: especially book 2

Holland, Trevenen J. and Henry M. Hozier, Record of the Expedition to Abyssinia, 2 vols, 1870

Ibn Battuta, Travels of Ibn Battuta ad 1325[-]1354, translated by H.A.R. Gibb, 5 vols, 1958[-]2000 (vol. 4 with C.F. Beckingham)

Ibn Hawqal, Kitab Surat al-ard, edited by J.H. Kramers, 2 vols, 1938[-]39; as Configuration de la terre, translated by Kramers and G. Wiet, 1964

Legh, Thomas, Narrative of a Journey in Egypt, and the Country of the Cataracts, 1816

Libro del conoscimiento de todos los reinos e tierras e señorios que son por el mundo e de las señales e armas que han cada tierra e señorio por si et de los reyes e señores que los proveen [mid-14th century], edited by Marcos Jimenez del Espada, 1877; as The Book of Knowledge of All Kingdoms, edited and translated by Nancy F. Marino, 1999

Mela, Pomponius, De situ orbis libri III, edited by Abraham Gronovius, 1748; as Pomponius Mela’s Description of the World, translated by F.E. Romer, 1998

Melly, George, Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, 2 vols, 1851

Paez, Pero, Historia Aethiopiae, in Rerum Aethiopicarum scriptores occidentales inediti a saeculo XVI ad XIX, edited by Camillo Beccari, vols 2[-]3, 1905[-]06

Pliny the Elder, Natural History, vol. 2, translated by H. Rackham, 1942: especially book 5

Poncet, Charles-Jacques, “Relation abrégée du voyage que M. Charles Poncet fit en Éthiopie en 1698, 1699 et 1700” in Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères par quelques missionaries de la Compagnie de Jésus, recueil 4, partie 2, 1704: 251[-]443; as A Voyage to Aethiopia, Made in the Years 1698, 1699, and 1700, Describing Particularly That Famous Empire, 1709

Schuver, Juan Maria, Reisen in oberen Nilgebiet: Erlebnisse und beobachtungen auf der wasserscheide zwischen Blauem und Weissem Nil und in den ägyptisch-abessinischen grenzländern 1881 und 1882, 1883; as Juan Maria Schuver’s Travels in North East Africa, 1880[-]1883, edited by Wendy James, Gerd Baumann and Douglas H. Johnson, 1996

Urreta, Luis de, Historia ecclesiastica, politica, natural y moral de los grandes y remotos reynos de la Etiopia, monarchia del emperador llamado Preste Juan de las Indias, 1610

Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, 4 vols, 1473; as Miroir historial, translated by Jehan du Vignay, 5 vols, 1495[-]96

Waddington, George and Barnard Hanbury, Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia, 1822

Further Reading

Bochow, Karl-Heinz, Zu den Quellen des Nils: auf den Spuren alter Reiseberichte, Innsbruck: Pinguin, and Frankfurt: Umschau, 1977

Crawford, O.G.S., “Some Medieval Theories about the Nile”, Geographical Journal, 114 (1949): 6[-]29

Crawford, O.G.S. (editor), Ethiopian Itineraries circa 1400[-]1524, Including Those Collected by Alessandro Zorzi at Venice in the Years 1519[-]1524, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958

Erlich, Haggai and Israel Gershoni, (editors), The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths, Boulder, Colarado: Rienner, 2000

Hirsh, Bertrand, “Figures et connaissance de l’Éthiopie dans la cartographie occidentale du XVe au XVIe siècle” (dissertation), University of Paris I (Sorbonne-Panthéon), 1991

Hirsh, Bertrand, “Les Sources de la cartographie occidentale de l’Éthiopie (1450[-]1550): les régions du lac Tana”, Bulletin des Études Africaines, de l’INALCO, 7 (1987): 203[-]36

Johnston, Harry, The Nile Quest: A Record of the Exploration of the Nile and Its Basin, London: Lawrence and Bullen, and New York: Stokes, 1903

Moorehead, Alan, The Blue Nile, London: Hamish Hamilton, and New York: Harper and Row, 1962

Richards, Charles and James Place (editors), East African Explorers, London: Oxford University Press, 1960

Scholtz, Andor, Abenteuer am Blauen Nil: die Geschichte einer gefährlichen Flussfahrt, Augsburg: Zimmer, 1982

Udal, John O., The Nile in Darkness: Conquest and Exploration 1504[-]1862, Wilby, Norfolk: M. Russell, 1998

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840[-]1922 and Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth, 1837[-]1917

British travelers

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Anne Blunt

Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates, edited by W.S. Blunt, 2 vols, 1879; reprinted, 1968

A Pilgrimage to Nejd: The Cradle of the Arab Race, 1881; facsimile with an introduction by Dervla Murphy, 1985

Journals and Correspondence 1878[-]1917, edited by Rosemary Archer and James Fleming, 1986

Wilfrid Blunt

The Future of Islam, 1882

Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1907

My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events 1888[-]1914, 2 vols, 1919[-]20

Further Reading

Finch, Edith, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 1840[-]1922, London: Jonathan Cape, 1938

Longford, Elizabeth, A Pilgrimage of Passion: The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979; New York: Knopf, 1980

Wentworth, Lady [Judith Anne Blunt Nevill], Thoroughbred Racing Stock and Its Ancestors, London: Allen and Unwin, 1938

Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe 1587[-]1657

Dutch sailor and explorer

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Iovrnael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe vande Oost-Indische reyse van Willem Ysbrantsz. Bontekoe van Hoorn, 1646

First edition of Bontekoe’s journal. For descriptions of all later editions see Verhoeven and Verkruijsse.

Memorable Description of the East Indian Voyage, 1618[-]25, translated by Mrs C.B. Bodde-Hodgkinson and Pieter Geyl, with an introduction and notes by Geyl, 1929; reprinted, 1992

Complete English translation.

Journalen van de gedenckwaerdige reijsen, 1618[-]1625, edited by G.J. Hoogewerff, 1952 (Werken uitgegeven door de Linschoten-Vereeniging, vol. 54)

Standard edition of the journals of Bontekoe, based on the manuscript logbooks.

Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe: De wonderlijke avonturen van een schipper in de Oost, 1618[-]1625, edited by V.D. Roeper, 1996

Most recent text edition with annotations and an introduction in Dutch.

Further Reading

Brady, Frank, James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769[-]1795, London: Heinemann, and New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984

Pottle, Frederick A., James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740[-]1769, London: Heinemann, and New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966

Rogers, Pat (editor), Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1993

Illustrated extracts.

Louis Antoine de Bougainville 1729[-]1811

French scientist and explorer

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Mémoire sur l’état de la Nouvelle France à l’époque de la guerre de Sept Ans, 1756

Mémoire sur les découvertes et établissements faits le long des côtes d’Afrique par Hannon, amiral de Carthage, 1761

Mémoires divers sur le Canada, 1762

[Description d’un ]Voyage autour du monde, 2 vols, 1771; revised edition, 1772; edited by Jacques Proust, 1982; as A Voyage round the World, translated by John Reinhold Forester, 1772

Essai sur l’île de Tahiti, située dans la mer du Sud; et sur l’esprit et les moeurs de ses habitants, 1779

Essai historique sur les navigations anciennes et modernes dans les plus hautes latitudes septentrionales, 1801

Adventure in the Wilderness: The American Journals of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, 1756[-]1760, edited and translated by Edward P. Hamilton, 1964

Écrits sur le Canada: mémoires-journal-lettres, edited by Roland Lamontagne, 1993

Further Reading

Boissel, Thierry, Bougainville; ou, homme de l’univers, Paris: Orban, 1991

Cazaux, Yves, Dans le Sillage de Bougainville et de La Pérouse, Paris: Albin Michel, 1995

Diderot, Denis, Supplément au voyage de Bougainville, edited by Herbert Dieckman, Geneva: Droz, 1955

Diderot, Denis, Pensées philosophiques; Lettre sur les aveugles, Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1972

Dorsenne, Jean, La Vie de Bougainville, Paris: Gallimard, 1930

Kerallain, René de, Bougainville à l’escadre du comte d’Estaing; guerre d’Amérique, 1778[-]1779, Paris: Maisonneuve, 1927

Kerallain, René de, Les Français au Canada; la jeunesse de Bougainville et la guerre de sept ans, Nogent-le-Rotrou: Imprimerie de Daupeley-Gouverneur, 1896

Kimbrough, Mary, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1729[-]1811: A Study in French Naval History and Politics, Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990

Lefranc, Jean, Bougainville et ses compagnons, Paris: Michel, 1929

Martin-Allanic, Jean-Étienne, Bougainville, navigateur et les découvertes de son temps, 2 vols, Paris: Presses Universitiares Françaises, 1964

Queffélec, Henri, La Boudeuse, ou le tour du monde de Bougainville, Paris: Seghers, 1986

Taillemite, Étienne, Bougainville et ses compagnons autour de monde, 1766[-]1769, 2 vols, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1977

Waggaman, Béatrice, Le "Voyage autour du monde" de Bougainville; droit et imaginaire, Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1992

Nicolas Bouvier 1929[-]1998

Swiss travel writer

Travel Writing

L’Usage du monde, 1963; as The Way of the World, translated by Robyn Marsack, with a foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor, 1992

Japon, 1967

Chronique japonaise, 1975; as The Japanese Chronicles, translated by Anne Dickerson, 1992

Le Poisson-scorpion, 1981; as The Scorpion-Fish, translated by Robyn Marsack, 1987

Journal d’Aran et d’autres lieux, 1990

Further Reading

Bouvier, Nicolas, Routes et déroutes: entretiens avec Irène Lichtenstein-Fall, Geneva: Métropolis, 1992

Bouvier, Nicolas, L’Echappée belle: éloge de quelques pérégrins, Geneva: Métropolis, 1996

Bouvier, Nicolas, Comment va l’écriture ce matin?, Geneva: Slatkine, 1996

Bouvier, Nicolas, Le Vent des routes: hommages à Nicolas Bouvier, Geneva: Zoé, 1998

Bridel, Yves (editor), La Suisse ouverte: Nicolas Bouvier, Pécs and Vienna: Janus Pannonius Tudományegyeteon-Universität Wien, 1994

Pasquali, Adrien, Nicolas Bouvier: un galet dans le torrent du monde, Geneva: Zoé, 1996

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Isabella L. Bird 1831[-]1904

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James Boswell 1740[-]1795

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