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B
Brazil
Travel Writing
Agassiz, Louis and Elizabeth Agassiz,
A Journey in Brazil,
1868; reprinted, 1969
Account, largely written by Elizabeth
Agassiz, of the Amazon expedition led by her professor husband.
Anchieta, José de, Cartas, informações, fragmentos históricose
sermões, edited by Afrânio Peixoto, 1933; reprinted, 1988
Contains accounts of life in 16th-century
Brazil with the aim of facilitating the missionary work of the
Jesuits.
Andrade, Mário de, O turista aprendiz, edited by Telê Porto
Ancona Lopez, 1976
Record of travels by one of Brazil’s
best-known writers in the north of the country, with the aim of
studying different forms of folkloric expression.
Ashe, Thomas, A Commercial View, and Geographical Sketch, of the Brasils in South America,
and of the Island of Madeira, 1812
Description of Brazil produced as a
guide to business opportunities for British merchants.
Avé-Lallemant, Robert, Reise durch Sud-Brasilien im Jahre 1858,
2 vols, 1859
Avé-Lallemant, Robert, Reise durch Nord-Brasilien im Jahre 1859,
2 vols, 1860
Detailed accounts of extensive travels.
Bates, Henry Walter, The Naturalist on the River Amazons, 2
vols, 1863
Detailed study of the Amazon by a scientist
who spent ten years in the region.
Bougainville, Louis de, Voyage autour du monde, 1771; as A Voyage round the World, translated by
John Reinhold Forster, 1772, reprinted, 1967
Briefly describes a visit to Rio de
Janeiro in 1767.
Burmeister, Hermann, Reise nach Brasilien, durch die Provinzen von
Rio de Janeiro und Minas Geraës, 1853
Account by a scientist based on travels
undertaken in early 1850s.
Burton, Richard F., Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil;
with a Full Account of the Gold and Diamond Mines, 2 vols,
1869
Particularly
valuable regarding the social, economic and cultural life of Minas
Gerais.
Caminha, Pero Vaz de, A carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha, edited
by Jaime Cortesão, 1943
The first detailed account of European
contact with Brazil, dated 1 May 1500.
Claude, d’Abbeville, Histoire de la mission des pères capucins en
l’isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines ou et traicte des
singularitez admirables et des meurs merueilleuses des indiens
habitans de ce pays, 1614
Account of the author’s experiences
as a missionary among the Brazilian Indians.
Codman, John, Ten Months in Brazil, with Incidents
of Voyages and Travels, Descriptions of Scenery and Character,
Notices of Commerce and Production, 1867
Wide-ranging discussion of life in
southern Brazil, by the captain of a merchant ship.
Davies, William, A True Relation of the Travailes and Most Miserable
Captivitie of William Davies, Barber-Surgion of London, under
the Duke of Florence, 1614
Discusses a voyage to the Amazon which
the author underwent while enslaved on an Italian ship.
Debret, Jean-Baptiste, Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil,
3 vols, 1834[-]39
Valuable sketches of people and places
seen, with commentary.
Dent, Hastings Charles, A Year in Brazil, with Notes on the Abolition
of Slavery, the Finances of the Empire, Religion, Meteorology,
Natural History, etc., 1886
Detailed account of life in Minas Gerais,
Rio de Janeiro and northeast Brazil.
Durtain, Luc, Imagens do Brasil e do Pampa, translated by Ronald de Carvalho, 1933
Reflections on Brazil by a French author
and member of the Groupe de l’Abbaye, translated by a well-known
Brazilian poet and literary critic.
Edwards, William Henry, A Voyage up the River Amazon, Including a Residence
at Pará, 1847
American naturalist’s account of extensive
travels in the Amazon region.
Eschwege, Wilhelm Ludwig von, Journal von Brasilien; oder, Vermischte Nachrichten
aus Brasilien, 2 vols, 1818
Eschwege, Wilhelm Ludwig von, Pluto Brasiliensis, 1833
Works focusing on the geography and
geology of Brazil.
Expilly, Charles, Les Femmes et les moeurs du Brésil, 1863
Account by a Frenchman who lived in
Brazil and wrote about living conditions and social customs.
Flecknoe, Richard, A Relation of Ten Years Travels in Europe,
Asia, Affrique and America, 1654
Contains a description of Rio de Janeiro,
where the author stayed for six months in 1648.
Fleming, Peter, Brazilian Adventure, 1933
Fleming joined an expedition to try
to ascertain what had happened to the explorer Colonel Fawcett,
who disappeared in Brazil in 1925. The mystery remained unsolved,
but Fleming gives a lively account of his experiences in the Brazilian
interior.
Florence, Hercules, Voyage fluvial du Tieté à l’Amazone, 1875
Records a French scientist’s travels
in the Amazon in the years 1825[-]29.
Gândavo, Pero de Magalhães de, Tratado da terra do Brasil, written c.1570
Gândavo, Pero de Magalhães de, História da Província de Santa Cruz a que vulgarmente
chamamos Brasil, 1576; as The
Histories of Brazil, translated and edited by John B. Stetson,
Jr, 2 vols, 1922
Early but detailed accounts of Brazil’s
natural environment and resources, and the customs of the indigenous
population.
Gardner, George, Travels in the Interior of Brazil, Principally
through the Northern Provinces, and the Gold and Diamond Districts,
during the Years 1836[-]1841, 1846; reprinted, 1973
Valuable descriptions of Brazil based
on extensive travels by a British botanist.
Graham, Maria, Journal of a Voyage to Brazil, and Residence There, during Part of the
Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824; reprinted, 1969
Detailed descriptions of life in Rio
de Janeiro, Recife, and Salvador.
Hoffmann-Harnisch, Wolfgang, Brasilien: Bildnis eines tropischen Grossreiches,
1938
Optimistic account of Brazil by the
German historian and director.
Kidder, Daniel P., Sketches of Residence and Travels in Brazil,
2 vols, 1845
Travelogue by a Protestant missionary.
Knivet, Anthony, The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes
of Master Antonie Knivet, Which Went with Master Thomas Candish
in His Second Voyage to the South Sea, 1591, in Purchas His Pilgrimes, vol. 4, 1625
Knivet travelled with the pirate Thomas
Cavendish to Brazil and lived for eight years in the country.
Koster, Henry, Travels in Brazil, 1816
Valuable insight into life in northeast
Brazil.
La Condamine, Charles-Marie de, Relation abrégée d’un voyage fait dans l’intérieur
de l’Amérique Méridionale, depuis la côte de la Mer du Sud, jusqu’aux
côtes du Brésil et de la Guyane, en descendant la rivière des
Amazones, 1745; as A
Succinct Abridgment of a Voyage Made within the Inland Parts of
South-America, 1747
Description of a journey along the
Amazon River in 1743.
Léry, Jean de, Histoire d’un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil, autrement dite Amerique,
1578; as History of a Voyage
to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America, translated
by Janet Whatley, 1990
Arguably the most valuable source of
information about Indian life in 16th-century Brazil.
Lindley, Thomas, Narrative of a Voyage to Brasil: Terminating
in the Seizure of a British Vessel, and the Imprisonment of the
Author and the Ship’s Crew by the Portuguese, 1805
Account of the author’s experience
as a prisoner in Salvador, and the life and environment of the
town.
Luccock, John, Notes on Rio de Janeiro, and the Southern Parts of Brazil: Taken during
a Residence of Ten Years in That Country, from 1808 to 1818,
1820
Detailed account of economic and social
life in southern Brazil.
McPhee, Brian, Down the Nowhere River: A Brazilian Journey, 1992
Mawe, John, Travels in the Interior of Brazil, Particularly in the Gold and Diamond
District of That Country, 1812; 2nd edition, 1823
An account which particularly focuses
on economic activities.
Mulhall, Marion McMurrough, Between the Amazon and Andes; or, Ten Years
of a Lady’s Travels in the Pampas, Gran Chaco, Paraguay and Matto
Grosso, 1881
Describes Rio Grande do Sul and Matto
Grosso.
Nóbrega, Manuel da, Cartas do Brasil (1549[-]1560), 1931; reprinted,
1988
Informative accounts of colonial life
in Brazil.
Nugent, Stephen, Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks, 1990
Seeks to break through the stereotypes
created about the Amazon and address the key issues confronting
the region.
Reclus, Élisée, Nouvelle Geógraphie universelle: La terre et les hommes, vol. 19:
Amerique du Sud: l’Amazonie et la Plata,
1894
Contains a substantial section on Brazilian
geography.
Ribeyrolles, Charles, Brazil pittoresco, 1859
An account of Brazilian society by
a French political exile.
Roosevelt, Theodore, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, 1914
Detailed description of the environment
based on an expedition to Mato Grosso and the Amazon in 1913 and
1914.
Saint-Hilaire, Auguste de, Voyages dans l’intérieur du Brésil, 8 vols,
1830[-]51
Detailed account by a French botanist
who spent nearly seven years travelling in Brazil (1816[-]22).
Salgado, Plínio, Geographía sentimental, 1937
Discussion of Brazilian geography and
social customs.
Seidler, Carl, Zehn Jahre in Brasilien während der Regierung Dom Pedro’s und nach dessen
Entthronung, 2 vols, 1835
Records travels through southern Brazil.
Semple
Lisle, James George, The
Life of Major J.G. Semple Lisle, Containing a Faithful Narrative
of His Alternate Vicissitudes of Splendor and Misfortune,
1799
One of the most vivid descriptions
of southern Brazil in the 18th century.
Sepp von Reinegg, Anton, RR. PP. Antonii Sepp und Antonii Böhm … Reissbeschreibung,
wie dieselbe aus Hispanien in Paraquariam kommen, 1697; as
An Account of a Voyage from
Spain to Paraquaria, in A
Collection of Voyages and Travels, edited by Awnsham Churchill,
vol. 4, 1704
Contains a description of missionary
work in southern Brazil.
Smith, Herbert H., Brazil, the Amazons and the Coast, 1879
Account of travels in the early 1870s
by an American scientist.
Sousa, Gabriel Soares de, Tratado descritivo do Brasil em 1587, edited by Francisco Adolfo de
Varnhagen, 4th edition, 1971
Regarded by many critics as the most
important source of written information about life in 16th-century
Brazil.
Spix, Johann Baptist von and Carl Friedrich
Philipp von Martius, Reise
in Brasilien in den Jahren 1817[-]1820, 3 vols, 1823[-]31;
partial translation, as Travels
in Brazil in the Years 1817[-]1820, translated by H.E. Lloyd,
2 vols, 1824
Valuable source of information about
early 19th-century life and society in Brazil.
Staden, Hans, Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden, Nacketen,
Grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen, in der Newenwelt America gelegen,
1557, facsimile, 1925; as Hans
Staden: The True History of His Captivity, 1557, translated
and edited by Malcolm Letts, 1928
Account of the eight months Staden
spent as a prisoner of Brazilian Indians in 1549.
Staunton, George, An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the
King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, 3 vols, 1797
Includes a description of a six-week
visit to Rio de Janeiro.
Steinen, Karl von den, Durch Central-Brasilien, 1886
Steinen, Karl von den, Unter den Naturvölkern Zentral-Brasiliens,
1894
Valuable ethnographic studies based
on extensive travels in the Amazon.
Thevet, André, Les Singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique,
et de plusieurs terres et isles découvertes de notre temps,
1558; as The New Found Worlde; or, Antarctike, translated
by Thomas Hacket, 1568, facsimile, 1971
Description by a French friar who witnessed
the establishment of the first French colony in Brazil in 1555,
mainly concentrating on the natural environment and the native
inhabitants.
Thomsen, Moritz, The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers,
1991
A journey through Brazil becomes a
journey of self-discovery.
Vespucci, Amerigo, letters to Lorenzo
di Pier Francesco de’ Medici, 1500 and 1502; in The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and Other Documents Illustrative of His
Career, translated by Clements R. Markham, 1894
Brief descriptions of travels along
the Brazilian coast.
Wallace, Alfred Russel, A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio
Negro, 1853; 2nd edition, 1889; reprinted, 1969
Scientist’s account of the Amazon region.
Wied-Neuwied, Prince Maximilian of,
Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815 bis
1817, 2 vols, 1820[-]21; as Travels
in Brazil, in the Years 1815, 1816, and 1817, 1820
Detailed account of an expedition by
naturalists.
White, John, Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, 1790
Describes a visit to Rio de Janeiro
on the way to Australia.
Wright, Marie Robinson, The New Brazil: Its Resources and Attractions,
1901; 2nd edition, 1907
Detailed account of Brazil in the late
19th century, with valuable descriptions of architecture.
Further Reading
Dutra, Francis A., A Guide to the History of Brazil, 1500[-]1822:
The Literature in English, Santa Barbara, California and Oxford:
ABC[-]Clio, 1980
Hahner, June E. (editor), Women through Women’s Eyes: Latin American
Women in Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts, Wilmington, Delaware:
SR, 1998
Levine, Robert M., Brazil, 1822[-]1930: An Annotated Bibliography
for Social Historians, New York: Garland, 1983
Mello-Leitão, Candido de, Visitantes do primeiro império, São Paulo:
Nacional, 1934
Moraes, Rubens Borba de and William
Berrien (editors), Manual
bibliográfico de estudos brasileiros, Rio de Janeiro: Souza,
1949
Moraes, Rubens Borba de, Bibliographia Brasiliana, 2 vols, Amsterdam
and Rio de Janeiro: Colibris, 1958; revised edition, Los Angeles:
UCLA Latin America Center Publications, and Rio de Janeiro: Kosmas,
1983
Naylor, Bernard, Accounts of Nineteenth-Century South America:
An Annotated Checklist of Works by British and United States Observers,
London: Athlone Press, 1969
Stern, Irwin (editor), Dictionary of Brazilian Literature, New
York: Greenwood Press, 1988
Taunay, Afonso de Escragnolle, Visitantes do Brasil colonial: sêculos XVI[-]XVIII,
São Paulo: Nacional, 1933; 2nd edition, 1938
Brito, Bernardo Gomes de (1688[-]c.1759)
Portuguese
bibliophile
Travel Writing
História
trágico-marítima, em que se escrevem chronologicamente os naufrágios
que tiveram as naus de Portugal, depois que se põs em exercício
a navegação da Índia, 2 vols, 1735[-]1736;
edited by António Sérgio, 3 vols, 1956[-]1957; as The
Tragic History of the Sea, 1589[-]1622: Narratives of the Shipwrecks
of the Portuguese East Indiamen São Thomé (1589),
Santo Alberto (1593),
São João Baptista (1622)
and the Journeys of the Survivors in South East Africa, edited
by C.R. Boxer, 1959; Further Selections from the Tragic History
of the Sea, 1559[-]1565: Narratives of the Shipwrecks of the Portuguese
East Indiamen Aguia
and Garça (1559), São Paulo (1561) and the Misadventures of the Brazil-ship Santo Antonio (1565), edited and translated by C.R. Boxer,
1968
Further
Reading
Araújo,
Maria Benedita, “Os relatos de naufrágios” in Condicionantes Culturais da Literatura de Viagens,
edited by Fernando Cristóvão, Lisbon: Edições Cosmos, 1999
Boxer,
C.R. (editor), “An Introduction to the História Trágico-Marítima” in Miscelânea de Estudos em Honra do prof. Hernâni
Cidade, Lisbon: Faculdade de Letras de Universidade de Lisboa,
1957
Seixo,
Maria Alzira and Alberto Carvalho (editors), A História Trágico-Marítima: Análises e perspectivas,
Lisbon: Edições Cosmos, 1996
Arthur de Capell Brooke 1791[-]1858
British
landowner and traveller
Travel Writing
Travels through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark [sic] to
the North Cape, in the Summer of 1820, 1823
A Winter in Lapland and Sweden, with Various Observations Relating to Finmark
[sic] and its Inhabitants Made During a Residence
at Hammerfest, Near the North Cape, 1826
Winter Sketches in Lapland, or Illustrations of a Journey from Alten, on
the Shores of the Polar Sea, in 69 Degrees 55 Minutes North Latitude,
through Norwegian, Russian [sic], and Swedish Lapland to Tornea, at the Entrance
to the Gulf of Bothnia, Intended to Exhibit a Complete View of
the Mode of Travelling with Reindeer, the Most Striking Incidents
that Occurred during the Journey, and the General Character of
the Scenery of Lapland and Sweden, 1827
Sketches in Spain and Morocco, 2 vols, 1831
Further Reading
Stagg, Frank Noel, North Norway: A History, London: Allen
and Unwin, 1952
Fascinating in its own right, as a
wide-ranging history of a region still relatively little known
to outsiders, and, in its lightly worn erudition and evident sympathy
for the people described, a welcome corrective to Brooke’s account.
James Bruce of Kinnaird 1730[-]1794
British
traveller to Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile
Travel
Writing
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773, by James
Bruce of Kinnaird, Esq., F.R.S., 5 vols, 1790; 2nd edition, corrected
and enlarged and edited by A. Murray with a life of Bruce by H.
Salt, 8 vols, 1804[-]05; 3rd edition, 8 vols, 1813
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, by James Bruce, selected and edited with
an introduction by C.F. Beckingham, 1964
Further
Reading
Abir,
M., “Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa” in The
Cambridge History of Africa, general editors, J.D. Fage and
Roland Oliver, vol. 4: From
c.1600 to c.1790, edited by Richard Gray, Cambridge and New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1975
A
straightforward and reasonably detailed political account that
explains the situation in which Bruce found himself.
Bredin,
Miles, The Pale Abyssinian:
A Life of James Bruce, African Explorer and Adventurer, London:
HarperCollins, 2000
Contains
an unconvincing theory that Bruce, as a freemason, was searching
for the Ark of the Covenant, erroneously assumes that Bruce has
been undervalued and forgotten, misunderstands much of African
travel and history, critical apparatus deplorably lacking in such
an ambitious work but recounts Bruce’s career fully and attractively
enough.
[Bridges,
Roy C.], “Africa: The Approach from the North and West”, The Times Atlas of World Exploration, edited by Felipe Fernández-Armesto,
London: HarperCollins, 1991
Provides
a very brief account of Bruce’s travels, some maps and an attempt
to set Bruce in the context of the European exploration of Africa.
Head,
F.B., The Life of Bruce, the African Traveller,
London: Murray, 1830
Sir
Francis Head’s work was the first full-scale biography to appear.
It summarizes Bruce’s travels and defends his character from earlier
aspersions.
Reid,
J.M., Traveller Extraordinary:
The Life of James Bruce of Kinnaird, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode,
and New York: Norton, 1968
A
sound biography based mainly on the printed Travels
but Reid is aware of the documentary material extant and makes
some limited use of it. In general, however, the critical apparatus
is disappointing.
Bruijn, Cornelis de (c.1652[-]1726/27)
Dutch
traveller and painter
Travel Writing
Reizen van Cornelis de Bruyn, door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asia,
de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus, Metelino, Stanchio, etc. mitsgaders
de voornaamste steden van Aegypten, Syrien en Palestina, verrijkt
met meer als 200 kopere konstplaaten, vertoonende de beroemdste
Landschappen, Steden, etc. alles door den auteur selfs na het
leven afgetekend, 1698; as Voyage
au Levant, 1700; as A
Voyage to the Levant; or, Travels in the Principal Parts of Asia
Minor…, translated by J.W. London, 1702
Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie: Verrykt met Driehondert konstplaten,
Vertoonende De beroemdste lantschappen en steden, ook de byzondere
dragten, beesten, gewassen en planten, die daer gevonden worden:
Voor al derzelver oudheden En wel voornamentlyk heel uitvoerig,
die van het heerlyke en van oudts de geheele werrelt door befaemde
Hof van Persepolis, By de Persianen Tchilminar genaemt,
1711
Aenmerkingen Over de Printverbeeldingen van de Overblyfzelen van het Oude
Persepolis. Onlangs uitgegeven door de Heeren Chardin en Kempfer,
waer in derzelver mistekeningen en gebreken klaer worden aengewezen,
door Cornelis de Bruin,
1714
Voyages de Corneille le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales…On
y a ajouté la route qu’a suivie Mr. Isbrants, Ambassadeur de Moscovie,
en traversant la Russie & la Tartarie, pour se rendre à la
Chine. Et quelques remarques contre Mrs. Chardin & Kempfer.
Avec une lettre écrite à l’Auteur, sur ce sujet, 2 vols, 1718; translated as Travels
into Muscovy, Persia, and
the East-Indies, 2 vols, 1737
Further Reading
Cornelis de Bruijn: Voyages from Rome to Jerusalem and from Moscow to Batavia,
Amsterdam: Allard Pierson Museum, 1998
Drijvers, Jan Willem, “Cornelis de
Bruijn and Gisbert Cuper: A Skilled Artist and a Learned Discussion”
in Achaemenid History VII: Through Travellers’
Eyes. European Travellers on the Iranian Monuments, edited
by Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg and Jan Willem Drijvers, Leiden:
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1991
Drijvers, Jan Willem, Jan de Hond and
Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (editors), “Ik
hadde de Nieusgierigheid”: De Reizen door het Nabije Oosten van
Cornelis de Bruijn (ca. 1652[-]1727), Leiden: Peeters, 1997
Hond, Jan de, “Cornelis de Bruijn (1652[-]1726/27).
A Dutch Painter in the East” in Eastward Bound: Dutch Ventures and Adventures in the Middle East,
edited by Geert Jan van Gelder and Ed de Moor, Amsterdam and Atlanta,
Georgia: Rodopi, 1994
Bry, Theodore de 1528[-]1598
Flemish
illustrator and engraver
Travel
Writing illustrated by de Bry
Collectiones
peregrinationum in Indiam orientalem et Indiam occidentalem,
25 vols, 1590[-]1634; as Americae,
1590[-]1634; edited by Gereon Sievernich, 1990
Further
Reading
Alexander,
Michael (editor), Discovering
the New World, New York: Harper and Row, and London: London
Editions, 1976
Bucher,
Bernadette, Icon and Conquest:
A Structural Analysis of the Illustrations of de Bry’s Great Voyages,
translated by Basia Miller Gulati, Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1981
Duchet,
Michèle et al., L’Amérique de Théodore de Bry: une collection de voyages protestante du
XVIe siècle: quatre études d’iconographie, Paris: Presses
du CNRS, 1987
Keazor,
Henry, “Theodore De Bry’s Images for America”, Print Quarterly, 15 (1998): 131[-]49
Mayor,
A.H., Prints and People:
A Social History of Printed Pictures, New York: Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 1971
Whitehead,
Neil L., “Hans Staden & the Cultural Politics of Cannibalism”, Hispanic
American Historical Review, 80/4 (2000): 721[-]51
Buccaneer Narratives
Manuscripts
Bartholomew
Sharpe’s journal dated 1683, formerly Lot 245 in Christie’s sale
13[-]14 June 1978. Now
in private hands.
British
Library, London, Sloane MS 46A. Copy of Sharpe’s journal, c.1685
British
Library, London, Sloane MS 46B. Copy of Sharpe’s journal, 1683
Cambridge,
Pepys MSS 2610, 2874. Copies of Sharpe’s journal both dated c.1684
Pierpont
Morgan Library, New York, MA 3310. Copy of Sharpe’s journal, 1695
Naval
History Library, Taunton, Somerset, MS 4. Copy of Sharpe’s journal,
1698
British
Library, London, Sloane MS 3820. Basil Ringrose’s journal (holograph),
undated but before 1683.
British
Library, London, Sloane MS 48. Copy of Basil Ringrose’s journal
by Phillip Dassigny with illustrations by William Hack
British
Library, London, Sloane MS 54. Cowley’s journal.
British
Library, London, Sloane MS 1050. Cowley’s journal (another copy).
Lambeth
Palace Library, London, MS 642. Cowley’s Journal (another copy).
British
Library, London, Sloane MS 3236. Dampier’s journal.
British
Library, London, Addl. MS 33054. Wafer’s journal.
Books
Dampier,
William, A New Voyage round
the World […], 1697; with an introduction by Percy G. Adams
and a new introduction by Sir Albert Gray, 1968
Defoe,
Daniel, The Life, Adventures,
and Piracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, 1720; edited
by Shiv K. Kumar, with an introduction by Penelope Wilson, 1990
Defoe,
Daniel, A New Voyage round
the World by a Course Never Sailed Before, 1725; edited by
G.A. Aitken, 1895
Exquemelin,
A.O., De Americaenesche
Zee Roovers, 4 vols, 1678; as The
Bucaniers of America: The Second Volume Containing the Dangerous
Voyage and Bold Attempts of Captain Bartholomew Sharp and Others
… Written by Mr. Basil Ringrose, Gent. Who Was All along Present
at Those Transactions, 1684; as The Buccaneers of America, edited with an introduction by Henry Powell,
1893; translated by Alexis Brown, 1969
Hacke,
William, A Collection of
Original Voyages, 1699; facsimile, with an introduction by
Glyndwr Williams, 1993
Wafer,
Lionel, A New Voyage and
Description of the Isthmus of America, 1699; edited with an
introduction by L.E. Elliott Joyce, 1934
Further
Reading
Campbell,
Tony, “The Drapers’ Company: And Its School of Seventeenth-Century
Chart-Makers” in My Head
is a Map: Essays in Honour of R.V. Tooley, edited by Helen
Wallis and Sarah Tyacke, London: Francis Edwards and Carta Press,
1973
Edwards,
Philip, The Story of the
Voyage: Sea-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England, Cambridge
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994
Gerhard,
Peter, Pirates on the West
Coast of New Spain, 1575[-]1742, Glendale, California: Clark,
1960; as Pirates of the Pacific, 1575[-]1742, Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1990
Howse,
Derek, and Norman J.W. Thrower (editors), A
Buccaneer’s Atlas, by Basil Ringrose, Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1992
Kelly,
James, “The Pirate, the Ambassador and the Mapmaker”, History Today, 48/7 (1998): 49[-]55
Kemp,
P.K. and Christopher Lloyd, The
Brethren of the Coast: The British and French Buccaneers in the
South Seas, London: Heinemann, 1960; as The
Brethren of the Coast: Buccaneers of the South Seas, New York:
St Martin’s Press, 1961
Lloyd,
Christopher, “Bartholomew Sharpe, Buccaneer”, The Mariner’s Mirror, 42 (1956): 291[-]301
Lynam,
Edward, “William Hack and the South Sea Buccaneers” in his The Mapmaker’s Art: Essays on the History of Maps, London: Batchworth
Press, 1953
Peter,
T. Bradley, “Sharp and Company: The First of the Buccaneers (1679[-]82)”,
in The Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the
South Sea, 1598[-]1701, London: Macmillan, and New York: St
Martin’s Press, 1989
Prebble,
John, The Darien Disaster,
London: Secker and Warburg, 1968
Williams,
Glyndwr, “‘The Inexhaustible Fountain of Gold’: English Projects
and Ventures in the South Seas, 1670[-]1750” in Perspectives
of Empire: Essays Presented to Gerald S. Graham, edited by
John E. Flint and Glyndwr Williams, London: Longman, and New York:
Barnes and Noble, 1973
Williams,
Glyndwr, The Great South
Sea: English Voyages and Encounters, 1570[-]1750, New Haven
and London: Yale University Press, 1997
Zahediah,
Nuala, “‘A Frugal, Prudential and Hopeful Trade’: Privateering
in Jamaica, 1655[-]89”, Journal
of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 18 (1990): 145[-]68
James Silk Buckingham 1786[-]1855
British
traveller and writer
Travel Writing
Travels in Palestine, through the Countries of Bashan
and Gilead, East of the River Jordan, etc., 1821
Travels among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting
the Countries East of Syria and Palestine … etc., 1825
Travels in Mesopotamia: Including a Journey from
Aleppo to Bagdad, by the Route of Beer, Orfah, Diarbekr,
Mardin and Mousul, etc.,
2 vols, 1827
Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia etc., 2 vols, 1829
Sketch of Mr. Buckingham’s Life, Travels, Political and Literary Labours
and Lectures on the Oriental World, 1829; revised edition as Improved
Syllabus of Mr. Buckingham’s Lectures on the Oriental World, Preceded
by a Sketch of His Life, Travels and Writings, etc., 1830
America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive, 3 vols, 1841
The Eastern and Western States of America, 3 vols, 1842
The Slave States of America, 2 vols, 1842
Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Other
British Provinces in North America, with a
Plan of National Colonization, 1843
Belgium, the Rhine, Switzerland, and Holland: An Autumnal Tour, 2 vols, 1848
France, Piedmont, Italy, Lombardy, the Tyrol, and Bavaria: An Autumnal
Tour,
1848
Further Reading
Buckingham, James Silk, National Evils and Practical Remedies: With
the Plan of a Model Town, London: P. Jackson Late and Fisher,
1849; Clifton, New Jersey: A.M. Kelley, 1973
Buckingham, James Silk, Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham, Including
His Voyages, Travels, Adventures, Speculations, Successes and
Failures, Faithfully and Frankly Narrated; Interspersed with Characteristic
Sketches of Public Men with Whom He Has Had Intercourse, during
a Period of More Than Fifty Years ..., 2 vols, London: Longman
Brown Green and Longmans, 1855
Downs, Robert B., Images of America: Travelers from Abroad in
the New World, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987
Contains summary of Buckingham’s career
and synopsis of The Eastern
and Western States of America (pp.84[-]89).
Mumford, Lewis, The Story of Utopias, New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922; London:
Harrap, 1923
Mumford gives a generally positive
appraisal of Buckingham’s model town, “One of the neglected utopias
of the mid-19th century,” (pp.124[-]29).
Nevins, Allan, America through British Eyes, Oxford and New York: Oxford University
Press, 1948
Nevins describes Buckingham as “one
of the most intelligent, energetic, and liberal of British visitors
to America before the Civil War.” Excerpts from America:
Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive related to New York
City and American women are included.
Turner, Ralph E., James Silk Buckingham, 1786[-]1855: A Social
Biography, New York: McGraw-Hill, and London: Williams and
Norgate, 1934
Connects Buckingham with larger reform
movement and social history of 19th-century Britain.
Vincent, Andrew, “Western Travellers
to Southern Syria and the Hawran in the Nineteenth Century: A
Changing Perspective”, Asian
Affairs, 24/2 (June 1993): 164[-]69
Vincent believes travellers in the
early decades of the 19th century, including Buckingham, to have
been more reliable than later accounts during the height of European
imperialism.
Cristoforo Buondelmonti c.1385[-]1430
Florentine
monk and traveler
Travel
Writing
Librum insularum Archipelagi [Book of the
Islands in the Archipelago], edited by Gabriel Rudolf Ludwig von
Sinner, 1824 (written 1422)
Further
Reading
Almagià,
Roberto, entry on Cristoforo Buondelmonti in Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, vol. 8, Milan:
Istituto Giovanni Treccani, 1930
Billetta,
Rudolf, Der Heilige Berg
Athos in Zeugnissen aus sieben Jahrhunderten, vol. 2, Vienna:
Mosaic, 1992
Bréhier,
L., entry on Cristoforo Buondelmonti in Dictionnaire
d’Histoire et de Géographie Ecclésiastiques, vol. 10, edited
by Alfred Baudrillart, A. De Meyer and É. Van Cauwenbergh, Paris:
Letouzey et Ané, 1938
Gothóni,
René, Tales and Truth: Pilgrimage
on Mount Athos Past and Present, Helsinki: Helsinki University
Press, 1994
Jacobus,
Emil, “Cristoforo Buondelmonti. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis seines
Lebens und seiner Schriften” in Beiträge
zur Bücherkunde und Philologie August Wilmanns zum 25. März 1903
gewidmet, (1903): 313[-]40
Legrand,
Émile (translator and editor), “Description des Iles de l’Archipel
par Christophe Buondelmonti. Version grecque par un anonyme” in
Publications de l’École des Langues Orientales
Vivantes, series 4, vol. 14, Paris: Libraire de la Société
Asiatique, 1897
The
standard translation of and commentary on Buondelmonti’s Librum.
Pertusi,
Agostino, “Monasteri e Monaci Italiani all’Athos nell’alto Medioevo”
in Le Millénaire du Mont Athos, 963[-]1963,
vol. 1:, Études et Mélanges,
Chevetogne: Éditions de Chevetogne, 1963
Weiss,
Robert, entry on Cristoforo Buondelmonti in Dizionario
biografico degli Italiani, vol. 15, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia
Italiana, 1972
The
most detailed biographical account of Buondelmonti.
William John Burchell 1781[-]1863
British
naturalist and traveler
Travel Writing
Hints on Emigration to the Cape of Good Hope,
1819
Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa,
2 vols, 1822[-]24; reprinted with additional material and an introduction
by I. Schapera, 1953; selections, edited by H. Clement Notcutt,
1935
Further
Reading
Entry
on William John Burchell, in Dictionary
of National Biography, edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney
Lee, London: Smith Elder, 1885[-]1900: vol. 7
Ferrez,
Gilberto (editor), O Brasil
do Primeiro Reinado visto pelo botânico William John Burchell,
Rio de Janeiro: Fundação João Moreira, and Salles: Fundação Nacional
Pró-Memória, 1981
McKay,
Helen M., “William John Burchell in St Helena”, South African Journal of Science, 31 (1934): 481[-]89
McKay,
Helen M., “William John Burchell, Scientist”, South African Journal of Science, 32 (1935): 689[-]95
McKay,
Helen M. (editor), The South
African Drawings of William J. Burchell, 2 vols, Johannesburg:
Witwatersrand University Press, 1938[-]52
Poulton,
E.B., “William John Burchell” in Addresses
and Papers Read at the Joint Meeting of the British and South
African Associations for the Advancement of Science, Held in South
Africa, 1905, vol. 3, Johannesburg: South African Association
for the Advancement of Science, 1906
John Lewis Burckhardt 1784[-]1817
Swiss
traveler
Travel
Writing
Travels in Nubia, edited by W.M. Leake,
1819
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land, etc., edited by W.M. Leake, 1822
Travels in Arabia, Comprehending an Account of Those Territories in Hedjaz Which the Mohammedans
Regard as Sacred, 2 vols, edited by William Ouseley, 2 vols,
1829
Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys Collected during His Travels in the East,
2 vols, edited by William Ouseley, 2 vols, 1830
Scheik Ibrahim (Johann Ludwig Burckhardt).
Briefe an Eltern und Geschwister,
edited by Carl Burckhardt-Sarasin, 1956
Burckhardt’s
correspondence with his family that amplifies that published by
Leake; published as by Scheik Ibrahim.
Further
Reading
Bidwell,
Robin, Travellers in Arabia,
London: Hamlyn, 1976
The
book summarizes Burckhardt’s travels in western Arabia and places
them in context.
Burckhardt,
J.L., Arabic Proverbs; or,
The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians Illustrated from
Their Proverbial Sayings Current at Cairo, edited by William
Ouseley, London: John Murray, 1830
Following
his discovery of a collection of proverbs made by Sherif ed dyn
Ibn Asad (sic), Burckhardt spent much of his leisure time in Cairo
editing, amplifying, and explaining them. Ouseley, a distinguished
orientalist, produced a final selection.
Hallett,
Robin (editor), Records
of the African Association, 1788[-]1831, London and New York:
Nelson, 1964
This
work contains the basic documentation on Burckhardt’s appointment.
Hallett,
Robin, The Penetration of
Africa: European Enterprise and Exploration Principally in Nor
