Literature of Travel and Exploration -- B Entries

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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