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Samuel
de Champlain 1567[-]1635
French
explorer, geographer, and administrator
Travel
Writing
Des Sauvages, 1603; edited by Alain Beaulieu
and Réal Ouellet, 1993; as “Of Savages”, translated by H.H. Langton,
1922
Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain, 1613;
as “The Voyages, 1613. Book I, 1604[-]07”, translated by W.F.
Ganong, 1922; “The Voyages, 1613. Book II, 1608[-]12”, translated
by J. Squair, 1925
Quatriesme Voyage du Sr de Champlain, 1613;
as “The Fourth Voyage”, translated by J. Squair, 1925
Voyages et descouvertures faites en la Nouvelle
France ... par le Sieur de Champlain, 1619; as “The Voyages,
1619”, translated and edited by H.H. Langton and W.F. Ganong,
1929
Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale,
dicte Canada, faits par le Sr de Champlain ... avec un Traitté
de la Marine, 1632; as “The Voyages, 1632. Part I”, translated
by H.H. Langton, 1929[-]32; “The Voyages, 1632. Part II, Books
I and II”, translated by W.D. LeSueur, 1933; “The Voyages, 1632.
Part II, Book III”, translated by W.D. LeSueur, H.H. Langton,
and W.F. Ganong, 1936; “An Account of What Took Place in 1631”,
translated by W.D. Le Sueur and H.H. Langton, 1936; “Treatise
on Seamanship”, translated by H.H. Langton, 1936
[Authorship
questionable] Brief Discours
des choses plus remarquables que Samuel Champlain de Brouage a
reconneues aux Indes Occidentales (1598[-]1601), 1859; as
Brief Narrative of the Most
Remarkable Things that Samuel de Champlain of Brouage Observed
in the West Indies, 1599[-]1601, translated by H.H. Langton,
1922
Œuvres de Champlain [Champlain’s Works],
edited by C.-H. Laverdière, 6 vols, 1870; re-edited by Georges-Émile
Giguère, 3 vols, 1973
The Works of Samuel de Champlain, edited
by H.P. Biggar, 6 vols, 1922[-]36
Further
Reading
Armstrong,
Joe C.W., Champlain,
Toronto: Macmillan, 1987
An
excellent general work.
Baudry,
René and Robert Le Blant, Nouveaux
documents sur Champlain et son époque, Ottawa: Public Archives
of Canada, 1967
Bideaux,
Michel, “L’Indien de Champlain: Objet ethnologique ou sujet de
colonisation?” in Les Figures
de l’Indien, edited by Gilles Thérien, Montreal: Université
du Québec à Montréal, 1988
On
the discoverer’s ethnological and political biases.
Bishop,
Morris, Champlain: The Life
of Fortitude, New York: Knopf, 1948; London: Macdonald, 1949;
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963
An
original and brilliant classic.
Campeau,
Lucien, Monumenta Novae
Franciae II (1616[-]1634), Rome: Monumenta historica, and
Quebec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 1979
An
important and erudite work containing essential source materials.
Cazaux,
Yves, Le rêve américain:
De Champlain à Cavelier de La Salle, Paris: Albin Michel,
1988
Codignola,
Luca, “Champlain et les mystères de son voyage aux Indes occidentales”
in La Découverte de nouveaux mondes: Aventure
et voyages imaginaires au XVIIe siècle, edited by Cecilia
Rizza, Fasano: Schena, 1993
The
present state of a controversial question.
Delâge,
Denys, Le Pays renversé:
Amérindiens et Européens en Amérique du nord-est, 1600[-]1664,
Montreal: Boréal Express, 1985
An
outstanding work.
Doiron,
Normand, “Songe et mensonge dans le Quatrième Voyage du Sr de
Champlain. Étude d’un lieu commun baroque”, Studi
Francesi, 104 (1991): 227[-]48
On
the fierce manner in which travellers defend the truth of their
narrations.
Heideinreich,
Conrad E., “An Analysis of Champlain’s Maps in Terms of his Estimates
of Distance, Latitude and Longitude”, Revue
de l’Université d’Ottawa, 48/1[-]2 (1978): 3[-]45
An
as yet unsurpassed study that provides a multitude of details.
Kirke,
Henry, The First English
Conquest of Canada: with some Account of the Earliest Settlements
in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, London: Bemrose, 1871; revised
edition, London: Low, 1908
Morison,
Samuel Eliot, Samuel de
Champlain: Father of New France, Boston: Little Brown, 1972
A
remarkable biography by an expert on naval history.
Novelli,
N., “Discours de Champlain pour un établissement permanent” in
Scritti sulla Nouvelle-France nel Seicento,
edited by P.A. Jannini et
al., Bari: Adriatica, and Paris: Nizet, 1984
A
review of the arguments in favour of an establishment, up to the
report presented to Louis XIII in 1618.
Trigger,
Bruce G., Natives and Newcomers:
Canada’s “Heroic Age” Reconsidered, Kingston: McGill-Queen’s
University Press, 1985
A
provocative work by a distinguished anthropologist.
Trudel,
Marcel, entry on Samuel de Champlain in Dictionary
of Canadian Biography, vol. 7, edited by George W. Brown,
Quebec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, and Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 1966
Trudel,
Marcel, The Beginnings of
New France, 1524[-]1663,
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973
A
general book by the well-known historian of New France.
Richard Chancellor d. 1556
English
navigator, mathematician, and astronomer
Travel Writing
“The
Booke of the Great and Mighty Emperor of Russia, and Duke of Moscovia,
and of the Dominions Orders and Commodities thereunto Belonging:
Drawen by Richard Chanceler” in The
Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of
the English Nation, edited by Richard Hakluyt, 3 vols, 1598[-]1600;
12 vols, 1903[-]05
Further Reading
Adams, Clement, Noua Anglorum ad Moscouitas Nauigatio, 1630; as “The Voyage of Richard
Chanceler Pilot Maior the First Discourer by Sea of the Kingdome
of Moscovia. An. 1553” in The
Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English
Nation, edited by Richard Hakluyt, London, 1589, facsimile
edited by David B. Quinn and R. A. Skelton, Cambridge: Published
for the Hakluyt Society and the Peabody Museum of Salem by Cambridge
University Press, 1965; as Chancellor’s Voyage to Muscovy; Being Clement Adam’s Anglorum navigotio
aol Muscovitas, translated by J. M’Crindle, Edinburgh: privately
printed, 1886
Bodenham, Roger, “The Voyage of M.
Roger Bodenham, with the Great Barke Aucher, to Candia and Chio,
Anno 1550” in The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques,
and Discoveries of the English Nation, edited by Richard Hakluyt,
3 vols, Bishop Newberie and Barker, 1598[-]1600; 12 vols, Glasgow: MacLehose, 1903[-]05
Clulee, Nicholas H., John Dee’s Natural Philosophy: Between Science
and Religion, London and New York: Routledge, 1988
A work predominantly about Dee but
with some consideration of his work with Chancellor.
Dee, John, A Letter Containing a most Briefe Discourse Apologeticall, 1592; London: P. Short, 1599; reprinted, Amsterdam:
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, and New York: Da Capo Press, 1973
Dee, John, The Compendious Rehearsall of John Dee ... Made unto the Honourable Commissioners,
London, 1592
Marnius, J. and J. Aubrius (editors),
Rerum Moscoviticarum Auctores
Varii [Various Writers on Muscovite Matters], Frankfurt, 1600
Includes a copy of Clement Adams’ account
of Chancellor’s first voyage.
Waters, David W., The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan
and Early Stuart Times, with foreword by Earl Mountbatten
of Burma, London: Hollis and Carter, 1958; 2nd edition, Greenwich:
National Maritime Museum, 1978
The standard work on Elizabethan and
Early Stuart navigation.
Willan, T.S., The Early History of the Russia Company, 1553[-]1603, Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1956; New York: A.M. Kelley, 1968
The best work on the history of the
company with a detailed consideration of Chancellor’s voyages
and their significance.
Jean-Baptiste Charcot 1867[-]1936
French
polar explorer and oceanographer
Travel Writing
Journal de l’expédition antarctique française, 1903[-]1905:
Le “Français” au Pôle sud, 1906
Expédition antarctique française (1903[-]1905), commandée par le dr. Jean
Charcot. Sciences naturelles: Documents scientifiques, 5 vols, 1906[-]11
Le “Pourquoi pas?” dans l’Antarctique: Journal de la deuxième expédition
au Pôle sud, 1908[-]1910, 1911; as The Voyage of the “Why
Not?” in the Antarctic: The Journal of the Second French South
Polar Expedition, 1908[-]1910, translated by Philip Walsh,
1911
Deuxième expédition antarctique française (1908[-]1910), commandée par
le dr. Jean Charcot. Sciences naturelles: Documents scientifiques, 28 vols, 1911[-]21
De la participation de la marine nationale aux recherches maritimes scientifiques,
1924
Christophe Colomb vu par un marin, 1928
La Mer du Groenland: Croisières du “Pourquoi pas?”, 1929
Voyages aux îles Feroë, 1934
Further Reading
Balch, Edwin Swift, The North Pole and Bradley Land, Philadelphia:
Campion, 1913
Dubard, Pierre and Luc-Marie
Bayle, Le “Charcot” et la
Terre Adélie, Paris: Éditions France-Empire, 1951
For the general reader.
Dufek, George John, Through the Frozen Frontier: The Exploration
of Antarctica, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1959
A
stimulating section on Charcot and a useful introductory account
of Antarctic explorations.
Emmanuel, Marthe, Charcot, navigateur polaire, Paris: Éditions
des Loisirs, 1943
Étienne, Jean-Louis, Les Pôles, Paris: Arthaud, 1992
Goodenough,
G.C.B., London: Murray, 1938
A
reliable and sympathetic account of Charcot’s life. Still the
best biography of Charcot in English.
Gurney, Alan, The Race to the White Continent: Voyages to
the Antarctic, New York:
Norton, 2000
The
fullest treatment yet on Antarctic explorations. A thoughtful
evaluation of Charcot’s contribution to the mapping of Antarctica.
Headland, Robert, Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions
and Related Historical Events, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1989
Heimermann, Benoît and Gérard Janichon,
Charcot, le gentleman des
pôles, Rennes: Éditions “Ouest-France”, 1991
A
useful, well-dated selection of chapters on Charcot’s polar expeditions
Kubnick, Henri, Charcot et les explorations polaires, Tours: Maison Mame, 1938
Musée de Saint-Malo and
Musée de la Marine (Paris), Charcot:
l’aventure polaire, Saint-Malo: Musée de Saint-Malo, 1986
(exhibition catalogue)
Oulié, Marthe, Charcot of the Antarctic, with a preface by Admiral Sir William Goodenough,
G.C.B., London: Murray, 1938
Rosove, Michael H., Let Heroes Speak: Antarctic Explorers, 1772[-]1922,
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2000
Rouch, Jules-Alfred Pierre,
L’Antarctide, voyage du
“Pourquoi pas?”, 1908[-]1910, Paris: Société d’éditions géographiques,
1926
Spence,
Sydney A., Antarctic Miscellany:
Books, Periodicals & Maps Relating to the Discovery and Exploration
of Antarctica, London: J.J.H. Simper, 1980
Jean Chardin 1643[-]1713
French
traveler
Travel
Writing
Journal du Voyage du Chevalier Chardin en Perse
et aux Indes Orientales par la Mer Noire et par la Colchide,
1686; translated as The
Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies,
1686; as Voyages de M. le Chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l’Orient,
3 vols, 1711; as Voyages
du Chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l’Orient,
4 vols, 1735, and 10 vols, 1811; as Voyage
de Paris à Ispahan, edited by Stéphane Yerasimos (based on
the 1811 edition), 2 vols, 1983
Further
Reading
Bayle,
Pierre, Nouvelles de la
République des Lettres, Amsterdam: Desbordes, 1684[-]87 [September
1686 pp.1061[-]80 and October 1686 pp.1124[-]43]
Seventeenth-century
writer who read Chardin and referred to his travels in several
works.
Beaumarchais,
J.-P. de, Daniel Couty and Alain Rey (editors), Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française, 4 vols, Paris:
Bordas, 1984[-]94
Beuzart,
P., “Le voyageur Jean Chardin (1643[-]1713)”, Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme français, (1947):
73[-]95
Garrisson,
Janine, L’Edit de Nantes
et sa révocation: histoire d’une intolérance, Paris: Seuil,
1985
Account
of events leading up to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Haag,
Eugène and Émile Haag, La
France protestante, 2nd edition, Paris: Sandoz et Fischbacher,
1877
Biographies
of French protestants.
Labrousse,
Elisabeth, Essai sur la
révocation de l’Edit de Nantes, Geneva: Labor et Fides, and
Paris: Payot, 1985
Study
of events that prepared the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
by one of the leading specialists on the history of French Protestants.
Tavernier,
Jean-Baptiste, Les Six Voyages
en Turquie et en Perse, edited and with an introduction by
Stéphane Yerasimos, 2 vols, Paris: Maspéro, 1981
Seventeenth-century
traveller (1605[-]89), who went to Turkey and Persia.
Thévenot,
Jean, Voyage du Levant,
Paris: Maspero, 1980
Seventeenth-century
traveller to the East.
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand 1768[-]1848
French
author and politician
Travel Writing
Atala, 1801
René, 1802
Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem et de Jérusalem
à Paris, 3 vols, 1811; as Travels
in Greece, Palestine, Egypt and Barbary, 2 vols, 1812
Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage, 1826; as The
Adventures of the Last Abencerrage, translated by H.W. Carter,
1870
Les Natchez, 1826; as The
Natchez, 1827
Voyage en Amérique, Voyage en Italie, 2 vols, 1827;
as Travels in America and
Italy, 2 vols, 1828
Mémoires d’outre-tombe [Memoirs from Beyond the Grave], 1849[-]50; as The Memoirs of Chateaubriand, translated by Robert Baldick, 1961
Further Reading
Bazin, Christian, Chateaubriand en Amérique, Paris: La Table Ronde, 1969
Includes a useful map.
Maurois, André, Chateaubriand, Paris: Grasset, 1938; as Chateaubriand, translated by Vera Fraser, New York: Harper, 1958
Chapter two recounts the trip to America.
Painter, George D., “The Longed-for
Tempests” vol. 1 in his Chateaubriand:
A Biography, London: Chatto and Windus, 1977; New York: Knopf,
1978
The best account of the early years.
Includes a detailed map.
Switzer, Richard (editor), Chateaubriand: Actes du Congress de Wisconsin
pour le 200e anniversaire de la naissance de Chateaubriand / Proceedings
of the Commemoration of the Bicentenary of the Birth of Chateaubriand,
1968, Geneva: Droz, 1970
See articles on the Itinéraire (pp.169[-]75) and on Atala (pp.243[-]51).
Switzer, Richard, Chateaubriand, New York: Twayne, 1971
See chapters two and four on literary
accounts and chapter five, “Chateaubriand in America”.
Bruce Chatwin 1940[-]1989
British
travel writer and novelist
Travel Writing
In Patagonia,
1977
The Viceroy of Ouidah, 1980
Patagonia Revisited, with Paul Theroux, 1986; as Nowhere
is a Place: Travels in Patagonia, 1992
The Songlines,
1987
Utz, 1988
What Am I Doing Here, 1989
Bruce Chatwin: Photographs and Notebooks, 1993; as Far
Journeys: Photographs and Notebooks, 1993
Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings, 1969[-]89,
edited by Jan Borm and Matthew Graves, 1996
Winding Paths: Photographs by Bruce Chatwin, 1999
Further Reading
Clapp, Susannah, With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer, London:
Jonathan Cape, and New York: Knopf, 1997
Estes, David C., “Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia: Travelling in Textualised
Terrain”, New Orleans Review,
18/2 (1991): 67[-]77
Levi, Peter, The Light Garden of the Angel King: Journeys in Afghanistan, London:
Collins, 1972
The author’s travelling companions
were Bruce and Elizabeth Chatwin; of Bruce, Levi writes “Most
of our best observations and all the best jokes were his” (Preface).
Meanor, Patrick, Bruce Chatwin, London and New York: Twayne,
1997
Murray, Nicholas, Bruce Chatwin, Bridgend, Wales: Seren,
1993
Pfister, Manfred, “Bruce Chatwin and
the Postmodernization of the Travelogue”, Literature,
Interpretation, Theory, 7 (1997): 253[-]67
Philip, Jim, “Journeywork”, Studies in Travel Writing, 1 (1997): 199[-]214
Shakespeare, Nicholas, Bruce Chatwin, London: Harvill, 1999; New
York: Nan. A. Talese, 2000
Taylor, David, “Bruce Chatwin: Connoisseur
of Exile, Exile as Connoisseur” in Travel Writing and Empire: Post-Colonial Theory in Transit, edited
by Steve Clark, London: Zed Books, 1999
Youngs, Tim, “Punctuating Travel: Paul
Theroux and Bruce Chatwin”, Literature
and History, 6/2 (1997): 73[-]88
Geoffrey Chaucer
c.1340[-]1400
English
poet and prose writer
Travel Writing
The
texts discussed above are available in a number of collected or
selected editions of Chaucer’s writings; recommended is: The
Riverside Chaucer, 3rd edition, edited by Larry D. Benson,
1987
Further
Reading
Bowden,
Betsy, Chaucer Aloud: The
Varieties of Textual Interpretation, Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1987
Study
of visual, oral, and written understanding of representative Canterbury
tales.
Bowers,
John M. (editor), The Canterbury
Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions, Kalamazoo,
Michigan: Medieval Institute, for TEAMS, 1992
Materials
on near-contemporary interpretation of Chaucer’s work, most importantly
for travel literature the Prologue to Tale
of Beryn.
Holloway,
Julia Bolton, The Pilgrim
and the Book: A Study of Dante, Langland and Chaucer, New
York: Peter Lang, 1987
Representative
study of pilgrimage as theme and metaphor in Canterbury Tales.
Howard,
Donald R., Writers and Pilgrims:
Medieval Pilgrimage Narratives and Their Posterity, Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1980
Overview
of extant materials as background to Chaucer, Mandeville and others.
Labarge,
Margaret Wade, Medieval
Travellers, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982; New York: Norton,
1983
Historical
survey of travel customs and conditions for Chaucer’s contemporaries.
Magoun,
Francis P., Jr, A Chaucer
Gazetteer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961
Alphabetically
arranged background on place names mentioned by Chaucer.
Muscatine,
Charles, Chaucer and the
French Tradition: A Study in Style and Meaning, Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1957
Seminal
work on Chaucer’s literary ancestry.
Pearsall,
Derek, The Life of Geoffrey
Chaucer: A Critical Biography, Oxford and Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Blackwell, 1992
The
standard biography.
Spearing,
A.C., Medieval Dream-Poetry,
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976
Classical
and vernacular backgrounds to Chaucer’s dream-vision poems.
Westrem,
Scott D., “Geography and Travel” in A
Companion to Chaucer, edited by Peter Brown, Oxford and Malden,
Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2000
Survey
of late 14th-century concepts and documents related to travel,
applied to representative passages of Chaucer’s writings.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1860[-]1904
Russian dramatist, novelist, short-story writer, and traveller
Travel Writing
“Step’”, 1888;
in The Steppe and Other
Stories, edited and translated by Ronald Hingley, 1991
“Gusev”, 1890;
translated in A Doctor’s
Visit: Short Stories, edited by Tobias Wolff, 1988
Ostrov Sakhalin, 1895; as The Island: A Journey to Sakhalin, translated
by Luba Terpak and Michael Terpak, 1967; as A Journey to Sakhalin, translated by Brian Reeve, 1993
Letters of Anton Chekhov, translated
by Michael Henry Heim, and Simon Karlinsky, 1973; as Anton Chekhov’s Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary,
1975
Letters of Anton Chekhov, edited by Avrahm
Yarmolinsky, 1973
Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters, translated
and edited by Gordon McVay, 1994
Further Reading
Björklund, Martina,
Narrative Strategies in
Čechov’s The Steppe, Åbo: Åbo Akademis, 1993
Dunaeva, E.N., Chekhov’s Journey on the Ship “Petersburg”,
Moscow: Nauka, 1977
Gitovich, N.I.
(editor), A.P. Chekhov v
vospominaaiiakh sovremennikov [A.P. Chekhov in the Memoirs
of His Contemporaries], Moscow: Khudozh. lit-ra, 1986
Gitovitch, N.I.,
Letopis zhizni i tvorschestva
A.P. Chekhova [Chronology of the Life and Works of A.P. Chekhov],
Moscow: Khudozh. lit-ras, 1955
Gromov, Mikhail,
Chekhov, Moscow: Molodaia
Gvardiia, 1993
Ludowyk, E.F.C.,
“Chekhov Visited Ceylon”, Times
of Ceylon Annual (1957)
McConkey, James,
To a Distant Island,
New York: Dutton, 1984
Rayfield, Donald,
Chekhov: The Evolution of His Art, London: Elek, and New York:
Barnes and Noble, 1975
Ryfa, Juras T.,
The Problem of Genre and
the Quest for Justice in Chekhov’s The Island of Sakhalin,
Lewiston, New York: Mellen Press, 1999
Sakharova, E.M.
(editor), Vokrug Chekhova
[Around Chekhov], Moscow: Pravda, 1990
Vysokov, M.S.
(editor), Chitaia “Ostrov
Sakhalin”: doklady i soobshcheniia uchastnikov istoriko-Kraevedcheskoi
Konferentsii [Chekhov and Sakhalin: Information from the International
Scientific Conference], 2 vols, Iuzhno-Sakhalinsk: Sakhalinskii
oblastnoi Kraevedcheskii muzei, 1990
Watson, Ian,
Chekhov’s Journey, London: Gollancz, 1983;
New York: Carroll and Graf, 1989
Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1886[-]1959
British
explorer and writer
Travel
Writing
Editor, The South Polar Times, vol. 3 (April[-]October 1911), printed 1914
The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910[-]1913, 2 vols, 1922; corrected edition with
postscript by the author, 1951; with an introduction by Paul Theroux,
1994
Introduction to Edward Wilson of the Antarctic, Naturalist and Friend, by George Seaver,
1933
Memoir of T.E. Lawrence, in T.E. Lawrence, by His Friends, edited by
A.W. Lawrence, 1937
Introduction to “Birdie” Bowers of the Antarctic, by George Seaver, 1938
Further
Reading
Alvarez, A., “A Magnificent Failure”,
review of The Worst Journey
in the World, New York
Review of Books (26 June 1997): 23[-]26
Davidson, Robyn, “Against Travel Writing”,
Granta 72 (Winter 2000):
247[-]54
Seaver, George, foreword to Cherry-Garrard’s
The Worst Journey in the
World, London: Chatto and Windus, 1965; New York: Carroll
and Graf, 1989
Spufford, Francis, I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination,
London: Faber, 1996; New York: St Martin’s Press, 1997
Theroux, Paul, introduction to Cherry-Garrard’s
The Worst Journey in the
World, London: Picador, 1994
Wheeler, Sara, Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, London: Jonathan Cape, 2001
Children’s Travel Writing
Travel Narratives for Children
Arundel, Jocelyn, The Wildlife of Africa, 1965
Arundel, Jocelyn, Land of the Zebra, 1974
Arundel hopes to save endangered African
animals from extinction.
Baldwin, James, The Story of Roland, 1930
Behn, Aphra, The History of Oroonoko, or, the Royal Slave, 1688
Boiardo, Matteo Maria, Orlando innamorato [Orlando in Love], Books
I and II, 1483; complete edition, 1495
Bontemps, Arna, Sad-Faced Boy, 1937
[Campen, Joachim], Receuil de voyages interessans: pour l’instruction
et l’amusement de la jeunesse, 7 vols, 1786[-]93
An example of the numerous retellings
of voyages of discovery for the edification of children.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Canterbury Tales, c.1397[-]1400; edited by William Caxton,
1478
Church, Alfred J., The Story of the Odyssey, 1892
Follows Homer’s poem as events unfold
in the original, with some attempt to reproduce cadence and style.
Church, Alfred J., Heroes of Chivalry and Romance, 1898
Retellings of Beowulf, legends of King Arthur, and Germanic epics for children.
Church, Alfred J., The Odyssey for Boys and Girls, 1906
Simpler than The Story of the Odyssey, and intended for even younger children.
Church, Alfred J., The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, 1964
Combines his works for children by
Homer.
Clark, Eleanor, The Song of Roland, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher, 1960
Vivid descriptions of medieval life.
Colum, Padraic, The Children’s Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy,
1918; reprinted 1962
Lively illustrations by William Pogany;
keeps the spirit of the original.
Cooney, Barbara, Chanticleer and the Fox, 1958
Historically accurate illustrations
by the author.
Defoe, Daniel, The Life and Strange and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York,
Mariner, 1719
Dryden, John with Sir Robert Howard, The
Indian Queen, 1665; first produced, 1664
Dryden, John, The Indian Emperor; or, The
Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, Being the Sequel of The Indian
Queen, 1667; first produced, 1665
Dryden’s dramas show the first contact
between Europeans and New World Natives and were extremely popular.
Follett, Helen, Ocean Outposts, 1943
Descriptions of the Pacific Islands.
Garland, Hamlin, Boy Life on the Prairie, 1899; revised
edition, 1908
Realistic depiction of life in Iowa
in frontier times.
Gatti, Attilio and Ellen Morgan, Here is Africa, 1943
Publisher’s series describing foreign
lands.
Gatti, Attilio, Mediterranean Spotlights, 1944
Describes Greece, Gibraltar, Crete,
Malta, Palestine, Sicily, and Italy.
Goethe, Johann W. von, Italienische Reise, 1816; as Italian Journey, translated by W.H. Auden
and Elizabeth Mayer, 1962
Account of his travels in Italy and
Switzerland.
Grinnell, George Bird, Wolf Hunters, 1914
Based on a true tale of three soldiers
hunting wolves on the plains.
Guest, Charlotte, The Mabinogion, 1838[-]49; first complete
text, 1849
Hakluyt, Richard, Divers Voyages touching the Discovery of America,
1582
Hakluyt, Richard, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discouries
of the English Nation Made by Sea or over Land, in the Most Remote
and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time within
the Compasse of These 1500 Yeeres, 1589
The great Elizabethan collections combine
adventure and patriotism.
Henty, G.A., By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War, 1883
Henty, G.A., A Final Reckoning: A Tale of Bush Life in Australia, 1886
Henty, G.A., By Right of Conquest; or, With Cortez in Mexico, 1890
Three sample titles from Henty’s extensive
oeuvre.
Hogarth, Grace, Australia: The Island Continent, 1943
All about that country: geography,
history, modern life.
Ish-Kishor, Sulamith, Children’s History of Israel from the Creation
to the Present Time, 1930[-]33
Detailed history of Israel, from biblical
times to pre-World War II.
Jong, Dola de, Level Land, 1943
Description of Holland (the Netherlands).
Kennedy, Jean, Here is India, 1945
Another in the Scribner “Here is” series
of travel books.
Kipling, Rudyard, The Jungle Book, 1894
Kipling, Rudyard, The Second Jungle Book, 1895
Kipling, Rudyard, Kim, 1901
Stories inspired by his childhood in
India.
Konigsburg, E.L., From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,
1967
A brother and sister run away to the
Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Krementz, Jill, A Visit to Washington, D.C., 1987
A fictional account of a visit to the
US capital.
L’Engle, Madeleine, And Both Were Young, 1949
The life of an American girl in a Swiss
boarding school.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, North to the Orient, 1935
With maps and charts by Charles A.
Lindbergh.
Malcolmson, Anne, A Taste of Chaucer: Selections from the Canterbury
Tales, illustrated by Enrico Arno, 1964
Modernizes the text but retains the
metre and rhyme of original. With commentaries, notes, and glossary.
Marryat, Frederick, Masterman Ready; or, The Wreck of the Pacific, Written for Young
People, 3 vols, 1841[-]42
Marryat, Captain Frederick, The Children
of the New Forest, 1847
Marryat, Captain Frederick, The Little Savage, 2 vols, 1848[-]49
These novels he directs to children,
realizing they made up his prime readership.
More, Hannah, Moses in the Bulrushes, 1782
Part of “Sacred Dramas, Chiefly Intended
for Young Persons, and Sensibility: A Poem”. One of several plays
intended for children.
Morris, Kenneth, Book of Three Dragons, illustrated by Ferdinand
Huszti Horvath, 1930
A fuller version of Manawyddan than other translations.
Optic, Oliver, Boat Club series, 1854[-]
Optic, Oliver, Woodville series, 1861[-]67
Optic, Oliver, Army and Navy series, 1865[-]94
Optic, Oliver, Starry Flag series, 1867[-]69
Picard, Barbara Leonie, The Odyssey of Homer, 1952
Character development is notable here.
Picard, Barbara Leonie, Stories of King Arthur and His Knights,
illustrated by Roy Morgan, 1955
Picard, Barbara Leonie, Hero Tales from the British Isles, illustrated
by John G. Galsworthy, 1963
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
Though not written for children, the
story of his experiences as an aviator fascinates young people.
Schultz, James Willard, With the Indians in the Rockies, with illustrations
by George Varian, 1912
Schultz, James Willard, Sinopah, the Indian Boy, with illustrations
by E. Boyd Smith, 1913
Schultz, James Willard, Lone Bull’s Mistake: A Lodge Pole Chief Story, 1918
Schultz
lived with the Blackfeet Indians on their reservation and gives
an accurate account of Native American life.
Scott, Walter, Waverley novels, 1814[-]24; Scott’s final revised version, 48 vols,
1829[-]33
Historical novels set in Scotland.
Scudder, Horace E., Bodley series, 1875[-]80
Traces the adventures of a New England
family.
Sherwood, Merriam (translator), The Song of Roland, illustrated by Edith
Emerson, 1938
Skrebitskii, Georgii, White Birds Island, 1948
Translated from the Russian story of
two boys stranded on an island. Rich in nature description.
Southerne, Thomas, Oroonoko, 1696; first produced, 1695
Dramatic version of Behn’s novel.
Sterling, Dorothy, The Outer Lands: A Natural History Guide to
Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long
Island, 1967
Ecologically minded guide to coastal
areas.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island, 1883
A suspenseful story of hidden treasure
on a spooky island.
Swift, Jonathan, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the
World, by Captain Lemuel
Gulliver, 1726; revised edition, 1735
The first voyage to Lilliput is the
episode that most fascinates children.
Synge, M.B., A Book of Discovery: The History
of the World’s Exploration, from the Earliest Times to the Finding
of the South Pole, 1912
Verne, Jules, Voyage au centre de la terre, 1864; as A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, 1872
Verne, Jules, L’Ile Mysterieuse, 3 vols, 1874[-]75; as The Mysterious Island, 3 vols, 1875
Verne is a master of suspense and adventure,
as these classics prove.
Voltaire, Candide; ou, l’optimisme, 1759; as Candidus; or, All for the Best, 1759; in Candide and Other Stories, translated by Roger Pearson, 1990
Candide’s travels serve to satirize
the creed of optimism, and, some argue, travel literature itself.
Watson, Jane Werner, The Iliad and the Odyssey, illustrated
by Alice and Martin Provensen, 1956
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Little House in the Big Woods, 1932
The first in her series on the Ingalls
family life as pioneering settlers on the American plains.
Wiley, Kim Wright, Walt Disney World 4 Teens by Teens, 2000
A teenager’s guide to Disney World.
Wordsworth, Dorothy, Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland,
1803
Coleridge started out accompanying
Dorothy on this trip but went his own way.
Wordsworth, William and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads,
with a Few Other Poems, 1798
The simple language and descriptions
of the people and scenery of the Lake District may qualify the
volume as travel literature for children.
Zwilgmeyer, Dikken, Johnny Blossom, translated from the Norwegian
by Emilie Poulsson, illustrated by F. Liley Young, 1912
Zwilgmeyer, Dikken, What Happened to Inger Johanne; translated
from the Norwegian by Emilie Poulsson, 1919
Set in the Norwegian countryside.
Further Reading
Adams, Percy G., Travel Literature and the Evolution of the
Novel, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983
Adams, Percy G., Travellers and Travel Liars, 1660[-]1800,
Berkeley: University of California, 1962
Barry, Florence V., A Century of Children’s Books, London:
Methuen, 1922
Bates,
E.S., Touring in 1600: A
Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education,
London: Constable, and Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911
Casson,
Lionel, Travel in the Ancient
World, London: Allen and Unwin, 1974; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1994
Clarke, Sidney W., The Miracle Play in England, London: Andrews,
1897
Crossley-Holland, Kevin (editor), The Oxford Book of Travel Verse, Oxford
and New York: Oxford University Press, 1986
Darton, F.J. Harvey, Children’s Books in England: Five Centuries
of Social Life, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1958
Gallagher, Catherine, and Simon Stern
(editors), Oroonoko; or,
The Royal Slave, New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000
Huck, Charlotte S. et
al., Children’s Literature
in the Elementary School, 6th edition, Madison, Wisconsin:
Brown and Benchmark, 1997
Johnson, Edna et al. (editors), Anthology
of Children’s Literature, 5th edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1977
Jusserand, J.J., English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages,
London: Unwin, 1897
Martels, Zweder von (editor), Travel Fact and Travel Fiction: Studies on
Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery, and Observation
in Travel Writing, Leiden and New York: E.J. Brill, 1994
Meigs, Cornelia, Anne Thaxter Eaton,
Elizabeth Nesbitt and Ruth Hill Viguers (editors), A Critical History of Children’s Literature: A Survey of Children’s Books
in English, New York: Macmillan, 1969
Moir, Esther, The Discovery of Britain: The English Tourists, 1540 to 1840, London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964
Penrose, Boies, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, 1420[-]1620, Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press, 1952; 2nd edition, 1955
Summerfield, Geoffrey, Fantasy and Reason: Children’s Literature
in the 18th Century, London: Methuen, 1984; Athens: University
of Georgia Press, 1985
Sykes, Percy, A History of Exploration from the Earliest Times to the Present Day,
3rd edition, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1950
Watson, Harold Francis, The Sailor in English Fiction and Drama, 1550[-]1800,
New York: Columbia University Press, 1931
Zacher, Christian K., Curiosity and Pilgrimage: The Literature of
Discovery in Fourteenth-Century England, Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1976
Chile
Travel
Writing
Akers,
C.E., Argentine, Patagonian and Chilian
Sketches, with a Few Notes on Uruguay, 1893
Andrews,
Joseph, Journey from Buenos Ayres throuqh
the Provinces of Córdova, Tucumán
and Salta, to Potosí,
Thence by the Deserts of Caranja to
Arica, and Subsequently, to Santiago de Chile and Coquimbo, Undertaken on Behalf of the Chilean-Peruvian Mining
Association in the Years 1825[-]26, 1827
Readable and literary, despite moralizing and anti-Catholic
sentiments.
Caldcleugh, Alexander,
Travels in South
America,
during the Years 1819[-]20[-]21: Containing
an Account of the Present State of Brazil, Buenos Ayres and Chile, 1825
Clissold, Stephen,
Chilean Scrap-book, 1952
Interesting
and entertaining, by a Latin American specialist
Darwin,
Charles, Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural
History of Various Countries visited by HMS Beagle, under
the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., from 1832 to 1836 (vol.
3 of Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s
Ships Adventure and Beagle, edited by Robert Fitzroy), 1839;
revised edition, 1845; as The Voyage of the Beagle, 1909
Davie, John Constanse, Letters from
Buenos Ayres and Chili, with an Original History of the Latter
Country, 1819
Gardiner,
Allan F., A Visit to the Indians on the Frontiers of Chili,
1841
Most famous, if not successful, Protestant missionary who
died there for his faith.
Gould,
Tony, Death in Chile: A Memoir and a Journey,
1992
Graham,
Maria, Journal of a Residence in Chile during the Year 1822. And a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823, 1824
Pioneer
woman traveller, literate and socially
responsible.
Hahner, June E. (editor),
Women through Women’s Eyes: Latin American Women in Nineteenth-Century
Travel Accounts, 1998
Representative selection of European and North American women
covering various countries, by ten writers. Useful introduction by the editor.
Haigh, Samuel, Sketches
of Buenos
Ayres, Chile and Peru, 1831
Hall,
Basil, Extracts from a Journal, Written on the Coast of Chile, Peru, and Mexico, 1824
Hibbert, Edward, Narrative
of a Journey from Santiago de Chile to Buenos Ayres in July and August, 1821, 1824
Keenan,
Brian and John McCarthy, Between Extremes, 2000
Quirky dual narrative of 1999 descent from northern to southern
Chile.
Mathison, Gilbert
Farquhar, Narrative of a Visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru and the Sandwich
Islands
during the Years 1821 and 1822,
1825
Miers, John, Travels
in Chile and La Plata, 1826
Illustrated
diary of the mining businessman-botanist is without equal in
his detailed description of the physical world, but marred by
bitterness at his mining failures, which provokes harsh and
unfavourable opinions of the people.
Morant, George C.,
Chili and the River Plate in 1891: Reminiscences of Travel
in South America, 1891
Phelan,
Nancy, The Chilean Way: Travels in Chile, 1973
Sagaris, Lake, After
the First Death: A Journey Through
Chile, Time, Mind, 1996
Thoughtful
narrative by the Canadian poet who has lived in and written
poetry on Chile.
Scarlett, Peter Campbell,
South America and the Pacific: Comprising a Journey across the Pampas
and the Andes; from Buenos Ayres to Valparaíso,
Lima and Panama, 1838
Schmidtmeyer, Peter,
Travels into Chile, over the Andes, in the Years
1820 and 1821, 1824
Sutcliffe,
Thomas, Sixteen Years in Chile and Peru from 1822 to 1839, 1841
Wheeler,
Sara, Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey through Chile, 1995
Highly praised account of recent journey through Chile.
Further Reading
Butland, Gilbert J.,
Chile: An Outline of Its Geography, Economics, and Politics, London and New
York:
Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1951; 3rd edition,
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981
Cassidy,
Sheila, Audacity to Believe, London: Collins, and Cleveland: Collins World, 1978
Chavkin, Samuel, Storm
over Chile: The Junta under Siege,
Westport, Connecticut: Lawrence Hill, 1985
Collier,
Simon, Ideas and Politics of Chilean Independence, 1808[-]1833, London: Cambridge University Press, 1969
Ercilla y Zuniga,
Alonso de, La Araucana: The
Epic of Chile, translated by Walter Owen, Buenos Aires: W. Owen, 1945
Fergusson,
Erna, Chile, New
York:
Knopf, 1943
Graham,
R.B. Cunninghame, Pedro de Valdivia,
Conqueror of Chile, London: Heinemann, 1926; New York: Harper, 1927
Howe,
Bea, Child in Chile, London: Deutsch, 1957
Koebel, W.H., Modern
Chile, London: Bell, 1913
McBride,
George McCutchen, Chile: Land and Society, New York: American Geographical Society, 1936
Nunn,
Frederick M., The Military in Chilean History: Essays on
Civil-Military Relations, 1810[-]1973,
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
Press, 1976
Sigmund,
Paul E., The Overthrow of Allende
and the Politics of Chile, 1964[-]1976, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977
Subercaseaux, Benjamín, Chile: A Geographic Extravaganza, New
York:
Macmillan, 1943
Wilson, Jason, Traveller’s Literary
Companion to South and Central America, Brighton: In
Print, 1993
China
Travel
Writing
Acton, Harold, Peonies and Ponies, c.1941;
reprinted, 1983
Arkush, R. David and Leo O. Lee (translators
and editors), Land without
Ghosts: Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid-Nineteenth
Century to the Present, 1989
Arlington, L.C. and William Lewisohn,
In Search of Old Peking,
1935; reprinted, 1987
Auden, W.H. and Christopher Isherwood,
Journey to a War, 1939
Beal, Samuel (translator), Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World,
translated from the Chinese of Hiuen Tsiang (ad 629), 2 vols, 1884; reprinted in 1 vol, 1968
Bell, John, A Journey from St Petersburg to Pekin, 1719[-]1722, edited and with
an introduction by J.L. Stevenson, 1966
Bird, Isabella L., 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
Bland, J.O.P., Houseboat Days in China, 1909
Bodde, Derk, Peking Diary: A Year of Revolution, 1951
Boxer, C.R. (editor), South China in the Sixteenth Century, Being
the Narratives of Galeote Pereira, Fr. Gaspar da Cruz, O.P., Fr.
Martín de Rada, O.E.S.A., 1953
Bredon, Juliet, Peking: A Historical and Intimate Description of Its Chief Places of Interest,
1920
Cheng
Te-k’un (translator), “The Travels of Emperor Mu”, Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2nd
series, 64 (1933): 124[-]42; 65 (1934):128[-]49
Ellis, Henry, Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China, 1817
Fa-hsien, A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk
Fâ-hien of His Travels in India and Ceylon (ad
399[-]414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline,
translated by James Legge, 1886; reprinted, 1965
Fracasso, Ricardo (translator), Libri dei monti e dei mari (Shanhai jing):
cosmographia e mitologia nella Cina Antica, 1996
Giles, H.A. (translator), The Travels of Fa-hsien (399[-]414 ad); or, Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms,
1923
Gützlaff, Charles, Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of
China, in 1831, 1832, and 1833, 1834; reprinted, 1968
Hedin, Sven Anders, The Silk Road, translated by F.H. Lyon,
1938
Hsu Hung-tsu, The Travel Diaries of Hsü Hsia-K’o, translated by Li Chi, 1974
Ibn Batuta, Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325[-]1354, translated by H.A.R. Gibb,
1929
Kates, George, The Years That Were Fat: Peking, 1933[-]1940, 1952
Li Chih-ch’ang, The Travels of an Alchemist: The Journey of the Taoist, Ch’ang-Ch’un,
from China to the Hindukush at the Summons of Chingiz Khan, Recorded
by His Disciple, Li Chih-Ch’ang, translated by Arthur Waley,
1931; reprinted, 1976
Little, Mrs Archibald, Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen
Them, 1899
Little, Mrs Archibald, In the Land of the Blue Gown, 1902
Lin-ch’ing, Hung hsueh yin yuan, 1849; as
A Wild Swan’s Trail: The Travels of a Mandarin, edited and
translated by T.C. Lai, 1978
Lu Yu, South China in the Twelfth Century: A Translation of Lu Yu’s Travel Diaries,
July 3[-]December 6, 1170, translated by Chun-shu Chang and
Joan Smythe, 1981
Ma, Huan, Ying-yai sheng-lan: The Overall Survey of the Ocean’s Shores (1433),
translated by J.V.G. Mills, 1970
Macartney, George, An Embassy to China, Being the Journal Kept
by Lord Macartney During His Embassy to the Emperor Ch’ien-lung,
1793[-]1794, edited by J.L. Cranmer-Byng, 1962
Mathieu, Rémi (translator), Étude sur la mythologie et l’ethnographie de
la Chine ancienne, 2 vols, 1983
Mathieu, Rémi (translator), Le Mu tianzi zhuan, 1978
Mirsky, Jeannette (editor), The Great Chinese Travelers: An Anthology,
1964
Polo, Marco, The Description of the World, translated and annotated by A.C. Moule
and Paul Pelliot, 2 vols, 1938; reprinted, 1976
Reischauer, Edwin O. (translator),
Ennin’s Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to
China in Search of the Law, 1955
Ricci, Matteo, China in the Sixteenth Century: The Journals of Matthew Ricci, 1583[-]1610,
translated by Louis J. Gallagher, 1953
Ripa, Matteo, Memoirs of Father Ripa, translated by Fortunato Prandi, 1846
Russell, Bertrand, The Problem of China, 1922
Salzman, Mark, Iron and Silk, 1986
Sitwell, Osbert, Escape With Me! An Oriental Sketch Book,
1939
Smedley, Agnes, Battle Hymn of China, 1943
Snow, Edgar, Red Star over China, 1937
Stein, Aurel, Ruins of Desert Cathay; Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central
Asia and Westernmost China, 1912; reprinted, 1985
Strassberg, Richard E. (translator),
Inscribed Landscapes: Travel
Writing from Imperial China, 1994
Trigault, Nicolas, The China That Was: China as Discovered by
the Jesuits at the Close of the Sixteenth Century, translated
by Louis J. Gallagher, 1942
Verbiest, Ferdinand, Correspondance de Ferdinand Verbiest de la
Compagnie de Jésus (1623[-]1688), edited by H. Josson and
L. Willaert, 1938
Wales, Nym [Helen Foster Snow], Inside Red China, 1939
Warner, Langdon, The Long Old Road in China, 1926
Watters, Thomas, On Yuan Chwang’s Travels in India, 629[-]645
ad, 1904[-]05
White, Theodore H. and Annalee Jacoby,
Thunder out of China,
1946
Yang, Hsüan-chih, A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-yang,
translated by Yi-t’ung Wang, 1984
Yule, Henry (translator and editor),
Cathay and the Way Thither,
Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China, revised by
Henri Cordier, 3 vols, 1913[-]16
Zhang
Dai, Souvenirs rêvés de Tao’an, translated by
Brigitte Teboue-Wang, 1995
Further Reading
Bretschneider, E., Mediaeval Researches from Eastern Asiatic Sources:
Fragments towards the Knowledge of the Geography and History of
Central and Western Asia from the 13th to the 17th Century,
2 vols, London: Paul Trench Trübner, 1888; reprinted London: Routledge
and Kegan Paul, and New York: Barnes and Noble, 1967
Cameron, Nigel, Barbarians and Mandarins: Thirteen Centuries of Western Travelers in China,
New York: Walker, 1970
Chavannes, Édouard, “Pei Yuan Lou: récit d’un voyage dans le
nord”, T’oung Pao, 2nd
series, 5/2 (1904): 163[-]92
Chavannes, Édouard, “Voyage de Song
Yun dans l’Udyāna et le Gandhāra”, Bulletin de l’École Française d’Extrême-Orient, 3 (1903): 379[-]441
Chavannes, Édouard, “Voyagers chinois
chez le Khitan et les Joutchen”, Journal
asiatique, 9th series, 9 (1897): 377[-]442; 11 (1898): 361[-]439
Chiang Chao-yuan, Le Voyage dans la Chine ancienne, translated
by Fan Jen, Shanghai: Commission Mixte des Oeuvres France-chinoises,
1937
Clifford, Nicolas R., “A Truthful Impression of the Country”: British
and American Travel Writing in China, 1880[-]1949, Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2001
Dunn, Ross E., The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century,
Berkeley: University of California Press, and London: Croom Helm,
1986
Duyvendak, J.J.L., China’s Discovery of Africa, London: Probsthain,
1949
Franke, Herbert, “Sung Embassies: Some
General Observations” in China
among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and Its Neighbors, 10th-14th
Centuries, edited by Morris Rossabi, Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1983
Franke, Herbert, “A Sung Embassy Diary
of 1211[-]1212: The Shih-Chin
Lu of Ch’eng Cho”, Bulletin
de l’École Française d’Extrême-Orient, 69 (1981): 171[-]207
Hargett, James M., On the Road in Twelfth-Century China: The Travel
Diaries of Fan Chengda (1126[-]1193), Stuttgart: Steiner,
1989
Harley, J.B. and David Woodward (editors),
The History of Cartography,
vol. 2: Cartography in the
Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies, Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1994
Hirth, Friedrich, “The Story of Chang
K’ién, China’s Pioneer in Western Asia”, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 37 (1917): 89[-]116
Lach, Donald F., China in the Eyes of Europe: The Sixteenth
Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968
Leslie, D.D. and K.H.J. Gardiner, “Chinese
Knowledge of Western Asia during the Han”, T’oung Pao, 68/4[-]5 (1982): 254[-]308
Naquin, Susan and Chün-fang Yu (editors),
Pilgrims and Sacred Sites
in China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992
Reischauer, Edwin O., Ennin’s Travels in T’ang China, New York:
Ronald Press, 1955
Smith, Richard J., Chinese Maps, Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 1996
Spence, Jonathan D., The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, New
York: Viking Penguin, 1984
Spies, Marijke, Arctic Routes to Fabled Lands: Olivier Brunel and the Passage to China
and Cathay in the Sixteenth Century, translated by Myra Heerspink
Scholz, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1997
Strassberg, Richard, A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from
the Guideways Through Mountains and Seas, Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2002
Thurin, Susan S., Victorian Travelers and the Opening of China,
1842[-]1907, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999
Ward, Julien, Xu Xiake (1587[-]1641): The Art of Travel Writing, Richmond, Surrey:
Curzon Press, 2001
Wriggins, Sally Hovey, Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road,
Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1996
Pedro Cieza de León c.1520[-]54
Spanish
conquistador and chronicler
Travel
Writing
Parte primera de la crónica del Perú: Que tracta
la demarcación de sus provincias; la descripción dellas; las fundaciones
de las nuevas ciudades; los ritos y costumbres de los Indios;
y otras cosas estrañas dignas de ser sabidas, 1553; 2nd edition,
1554; as The Travels of Pedro Cieza de León, translated
by Clements R. Markham, 1864
Segunda parte de la crónica del Perú: que trata
del Señorío de los Incas, edited by Marcos Jiménez de la Espada,
1880; as Crónica del Perú:
Segunda parte, edited Francesca Cantù, 1985; as The
Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru, translated by Clements
R. Markham, 1883
Crónica del Perú: Tercera parte, edited
by Francesca Cantù, 1987; as The
Discovery and Conquest of Peru: Chronicles of the New World Encounter,
edited and translated by Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David
Cook, 1998
Guerras civiles del Perú, edited by José
Sancho Rayón, 3 vols, 1877[-]81; as Crónica
del Perú: cuarta parte, edited by Pedro Guibovich Pérez, Gabriela
Benavides de Rivero and Laura Gutiérrez Arbulú, 3 vols, 1991[-]94:
1.
Guerra de las Salinas; 1877; as The War of Las Salinas, translated by Clements
R. Markham, 1923
2.
Guerra de Chupas, 1881; as The
War of Chupas, translated by Clements R. Markham, 1918
3.
La Guerra de Quito, edited by Manuel Serrano y Sanz, 1909; the first
53 chapters as The War of
Quito, translated by Clements R. Markham, 1913
Obras Completas [The Complete Works], 3
vols, edited by Carmelo Sáenz de Santa María, 1984[-]85
Further Reading
Barnadas,
Josep M. Descripción del
Perú, 1553, Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, 1976
Cantù,
Francesca, Pedro de Cieza
de León e il “Descubrimiento y Conquista del Perú”, Rome:
Istituto Storico Italiano, 1979
Esteve
Barba, Francisco, Historiografía
Indiana, Madrid: Gredos, 1964
Hemming,
John, The Conquest of the
Incas, London: Macmillan and New York: Harcourt Brace, 1970
Herrera,
Antonio de, Historia general
de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas y tierra ferme del
mar océano, 8 vols, Madrid: Emprenta Real, 1601[-]15; edited
by Antonio Ballesteros Beretta and Miguel Gómez del Campillo,
17 vols, Madrid: Tipografía de Archivos, 1934[-]55; selections,
as The General History of
the Vast Continent and Islands of America, translated by John
Stephens, 6 vols, London: Batley, 1725[-]26; 2nd edition, London:
Longman, 1740; reprinted New York: AMS Press, 1973
Jiménez
de la Espada, Marcos, “Prólogo” [Introduction] to Pedro de Cieza de León, Tercero libro de las Guerras Civiles del Perú, el cual se llama la Guerra
de Quito, Madrid: Hernandez, 1877
MacCormack,
Sabine, Religion in the
Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru, Princeton,
New Jersey: Princeton University Press,
1991
Maticorena
Estrada, Miguel, “Cieza de León en Sevilla y su muerte en 1554:
Documentos”, Anuario de Estudios Americanos 12 (1955):
615[-]74
Zárate,
Agustín de, Historia del
descubrimiento y conquista de la provincia del Perú, Antwerp,
1555
Circumnavigation Narratives
Travel Writing
Chichester, Francis, Gypsy Moth Circles the World, 1967
Cook, James, A Voyage towards the South Pole, and round
the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and
Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775 …, 1777
Cook, James and
James King, A Voyage to
the Pacific Ocean Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for
Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere in the Years 1776,
1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780, 3 vols and atlas, 1784
Cook, James, The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery, edited
by J.C. Beaglehole, 4 vols, 1955[-]74
Dampier, William, A New Voyage round the World, 1697
Dampier,
William, A Voyage to New
Holland &c. in the Year 1699, part 1, 1703, part 2, 1709;
edited by James Spencer, 1981
Dampier, William, Voyages and Discoveries, edited by Clennell
Wilkinson, 1931
Darwin, Charles, Journal of Researches into the Geology and
Natural History of Various Countries visited by HMS Beagle,
under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N.,
from 1832 to 1836 (vol. 3 of Narrative
of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and
Beagle, edited by Robert Fitzroy), 1839; revised edition,
1845; as The Voyage of the Beagle, 1909
Darwin, Charles, Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary, edited by Richard Darwin Keynes, 1988
Eden, Richard (translator), The Decades of the Newe World; or, West India
… by Peter Martyr of Angeleria, 1555
Freycinet, Rose Marie Pinon de, A Woman of Courage: The Journal of Rose de
Freycinet on Her Voyage around the World 1817[-]1820, translated
and edited by Marc Serge Rivière, 1996
Graham, Robin Lee, Dove, 1972
Hakluyt,
Richard, The Principal Navigations,
Voyages, & Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea
or over Land, to the Most Remote and Farthest Corners of the Earth,
1589; revised edition as The
Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of
the English Nation, 3 vols, 1598[-]1600; 12 vols, 1903[-]05
Knox-Johnston, Robin, A World of My Own: The Single-Handed, Non-Stop
Circumnavigation of the World in Suhaili, 1969
Pigafetta, Antonio, The First Voyage around the World (1519[-]1522):
An Account of Magellan’s Expedition, edited by Theodore J.
Cachey Jr, 1995
Ross, James Clerk, A Voyage
of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions,
during the Years 1839[-]43,
1847
Slocum, Joshua, Sailing Alone around the World, 1899
Twain, Mark, Following the Equator: A Journey
around the World, 1897
Further Reading
Brendon, J.A., Great Navigators and Discoverers, London: Harrap, 1929; Freeport,
New York: Books for Libraries, 1967
Wilson, Derek, The Circumnavigators, London: Constable, and New York: Evans, 1989
Hugh Clapperton 1788[-]1827
British
explorer
Travel
Writing
Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern
and Central Africa in the Years 1822, 1823 and 1824 … by Major
Denham, Captain Clapperton, and the late Doctor Oudney, 1826
Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior
of Africa, from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo, to Which Is Added
the Journal of Richard Lander,
1829; facsimile, 1966
Records of Captain Clapperton’s Last Expedition
to Africa by His Faithful Attendant …, 2 vols, 1830
Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central
Africa in 1822, 1823 and 1824 … with a Short Account of Clapperton
and Lander’s Second Journey in 1825, 1826 and 1827, 4 vols, 1831
Missions to the Niger, edited by E.W. Bovill,
4 vols, 1964[-]66
Volumes
2, 3 and 4 cover the 1822[-]25 mission.
Clapperton in Borno: Journals of the Travels
in Borno of Lieutenant Hugh Clapperton, R.N. from January 1823
to September 1824, edited by James R. Bruce-Lockhart, 1996
Difficult
and Dangerous Roads: Hugh Clapperton’s Travels in Sahara and Fezzan
(1822[-]25), edited by Jamie Bruce-Lockhart and John Wright,
2000
Further
Reading
Boahen,
A. Adu, Britain, the Sahara,
and the Western Sudan, 1788[-]1861, Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1964
A
definitive account of the official context of the expeditions
and the areas involved.
Curtin,
Philip D., The Image of
Africa: British Ideas and Action, 1780[-]1850,
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964; London: Macmillan,
1965
Intellectual
background to the British West African activities.
Fleming,
Fergus, Barrow’s Boys, London: Granta, 1998; New York: Atlantic
Monthly Press, 2000
Well-referenced
account of explorers associated with Barrow but virulently critical
of him and ill-informed on Africa.
Hallett,
Robin, The Penetration of
Africa: European Enterprise and Exploration Principally in Northern
and Western Africa up to 1830, London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, and New York: Praeger, 1965 (vol. 1 only published)
Probably
the best modern general account of West African exploration.
Johnston,
H.A.S., The Fulani Empire
of Sokoto, London and Ibadan: Oxford University Press,
1967
A
useful account of the new empire that Clapperton encountered.
Edward Daniel Clarke 1769[-]1822
British
mineralogist, antiquarian, and travel writer
Travel Writing
A Tour through the South of England, Wales and Part of Ireland, Made during
the Summer of 1791, 1793
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, 6 vols, 1810[-]23
Critique on the Character and Writings of Sir George Wheler, Knt., as a
Traveller,
1820
Further Reading
Angelomatis-Tsougarakis, Helen, The Eve of the Greek Revival: British Travellers’
Perceptions of Early Nineteenth-Century Greece, London and
New York: Routledge, 1990
Greece through the eyes of British
travellers including Clarke.
Barton, H. Arnold, Northern Arcadia: Foreign Travelers in Scandinavia,
1765[-]1815, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press,
1998
Dolan, Brian, Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment,
London: Macmillan, and New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000
Gunning, Henry, Reminiscences of the University, Town and County of Cambridge from the
Year 1780, 2 vols, London: Bell, 1854
Entertaining recollections of Clarke
and his milieu by his
contemporary Gunning.
James, Patricia (editor), The Travel Diaries of Thomas Robert Malthus,
London: Cambridge University Press, for the Royal Economic Society,
1966
Diaries of Clarke’s fellow-traveller
to Scandinavia with an introduction which throws light on Clarke’s
methods of composition.
Otter, William, The Life and Remains of the Rev. Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D., London:
Dove, 1824
Conventional biography by Clarke’s
close friend, with extracts from Clarke’s unpublished writings,
including the journal of his tour of Scotland and letters written
home from his 1799[-]1802 tour.
Sandblad, Henrik, “Edward D. Clarke
och Giuseppe Acerbi, upptäcktsresande i Norden 1798[-]1800”, Lychnos (1979[-]80): 155[-]205; English
summary, 202[-]05
Describes
the Scandinavian part of Clarke’s journey, including the Linnaean
background to his collecting.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772[-]1834)
British
poet and essayist
Primary
Texts
Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor, Collected
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor, The Notebooks
of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Kathleen Coburn. London: Routledge
Kegan Paul, 1957.
Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor, Lectures
1795 on Politics and Religion, ed. Lewis Patton and Peter
Mann. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.
Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor, Lectures
1808 - 1819 on Literature, ed. R A Foakes. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1987.
Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor, Poems,
ed. John Beer. London: Everyman, 1993.
Cooper,
T, Some Information Respecting America, 1794
Bartram,
W, Travels through North
and South Carolina, 1792.
Maurice,
Thomas, The History of Hindostan,
London, 1795
Purchas,
Samuel, Purchas his Pilgrimage,
1617
Quarll,
Philip, The Hermit, or,
the Unparalleled Sufferings and Surprising Adventures of Philip
Quarll. London, 1794
Shelvocke,
George, A Voyage round the
World by Way of the Great South Sea. London, 1726.
Secondary Texts
Southey,
Robert, Madoc: A Poem in
Two Parts. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1805
Empson,
William, “The Ancient Mariner” Critical
Quarterly 6 (1964): 298 - 319.
Holmes,
Richard, Coleridge: Early
Visions, London: HarperCollins, 1989.
Holmes,
Richard, Coleridge: Darker
Reflections, London: HarperCollins, 1998.
Keane,
P.J, Coleridge’s Submerged
Politics, 1994.
Leask,
Nigel, British Romantic
Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire. Cambridge and New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Lowes,
John Livingston, The Road
to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination, Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, and London: Constable, 1927; revised edition,
Houghton Mifflin, 1930
McGann,
Jerome J, “The Meaning of the Ancient Mariner” Critical Inquiry 8, no. 1 (1981): 35 - 69.
Roe,
Nicholas, Wordsworth and
Coleridge: The Radical Years. Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.
Wilkinson,
C S, The Wake of the Bounty.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1953.
Collections of the Literature of Travel and Exploration
Further Reading
Aldus Encyclopedia of Discovery and Exploration, 18 vols, London: Aldus, 1971
Bettex, Albert W., The Discovery of the World: The Great Explorers
and the Worlds They Found, translated by Daphne Woodward,
New York: Simon and Schuster, and London: Thames and Hudson, 1960
Day, Alan Edwin, Discovery and Exploration: A Reference Handbook,
vol. 1: The Old World,
New York: Saur, and London: Bingley, 1980 (no more published)
Delpar, Helen (editor), The Discoverers: An Encyclopedia of Explorers
and Exploration, New York: McGraw Hill, 1980
McCarry, Charles (editor), From the Field: A Collection of Writings from
National Geographic, Washington, DC: National Geographic Society,
1997
Parker, John (editor), Merchants and Scholars: Essays in the History
of Exploration and Trade, Collected
in Memory of James Ford Bell, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1965
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur (editor), Great Adventures and Explorations from the
Earliest Times to the Present, as Told by the Explorers Themselves,
New York: Dial Press, and London: Hale, 1947
Collections of the Literature of Travel and
Exploration: Anthologies
Collections
Allen, Charles (editor), Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British
India in the Twentieth Century, London: Deutsch and BBC,1975
Allen, Charles (editor), Tales from the Dark Continent: Images of British
Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century, London: Deutsch
and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979
Recorded reminiscences by the last generation
of British colonial administrators and other former expatriates
arranged into chapters on particular themes (“Learning
the Ropes,” “Topees Overboard”).
Anderson,
George William, A New, Authentic,
and Complete Collection of Voyages round the World, Containing
a Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook’s First, Second,
Third and Last Voyages, Newly Written from the Authentic Journals
and Published under the Direction of G.W. Anderson Assisted by
Many Other Gentlemen, London: Hogg [1784?]; illustrated folio
edition published in instalments, c.1786; octavo edition in 6 vols, revised by James Hogg, London: Miller,
Law and Cater, 1790
A
collection on the theme of the great, mainly English, circumnavigations.
Barrow, John, A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions …, London:
John Murray, 1818
Rewritten accounts of Arctic exploration
from the Viking voyages onwards, taking advantage of public interest
in the 1818 Ross expedition.
Bradshaw, George (editor), A Collection of Travel in America by Various
Hands, New York: Farrar Strauss, 1948
Sizeable extracts from “writers with
a sense of place,” including Anthony Trollope on the Niagara Falls,
Cocteau flying from Los Angeles to New York in the 1930s, D.H.
Lawrence on the Hopi Snake Dance, and Thoreau on Cape Cod.
Brito, Bernardo Gomes de, 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,
Lisbon: Congregação do Oratorio, 1735[-]36; edited by António Sérgio, 3 vols, Lisbon: Sul, 1956[-]57
Bry, Theodor de et al. (editors), Collectiones
peregrinationum in Indiam orientalem et Indiam occidentalem,
1590[-]1634
Burney, James, A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific
Ocean, 5 vols, London: Luke Hansard, 1803[-]17
The author sailed with Cook on his last
two voyages. The fourth volume was reprinted as History of the Buccaneers of America (1891, 1907).
Burney, James, A Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages of Discovery; and of
the Early Eastern Navigations of the Russians, London: Payne
and Foss, 1819
Churchill, Awnsham (editor), A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now
First Printed from Original MSS., Others Translated out of Foreign
Languages and Now First Published in English …, 4 vols, London:
A. and J. Churchill, 1704; further editions, 1732, 1744[-]46,
and 1752
The philosopher Locke assisted Churchill
with materials for this collection.
Commelin, Isaac, Begin ende voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Geoctroyeerde
Oost-Indische Compagnie. Vervatende de voornaemste Reysen, by
de inwoonderen der selver Provintien derwaerts gedaen, 2 vols,
Amsterdam, 1645; as Recueil des voyages qui ont servi à l’établissement
et aux progrès de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, translated
and adapted by Constantin de Renneville, 2 vols, Amsterdam, 1702
2nd edition, 7 vols, Amsterdam, 1754; vol. 1 as A
Collection of Voyages Undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company,
for the Improvement of Trade and Navigation, London: Freeman
et al., 1703
Dalrymple,
Alexander (editor), An Account
of the Discoveries Made in the South Pacifick Ocean, Previous
to 1764, 1767
Dalrymple,
Alexander (editor), An Historical
Collection of the Several Voyages and
Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean, 1769
Dalrymple,
Alexander (editor), An Historical
Collection of the Several Voyages and Disoveries in the South
Pacific Ocean, 2 vols, 1770[-]71
Dalrymple,
Alexander (editor), A Collection
of Voyages Chiefly in the Southern Atlantick Ocean, 1775
Dalymple,
who travelled in the eastern seas on behalf of the East Indian
Company, wished to promote British commerce and enterprise through
his collections.
Davidson, Robyn (editor), The Picador Book of Journeys, London: Picador,
2001
Selection of 81 excerpts of varying
length, ranging from ancient Egypt to 20th-century Iceland.
Deleury,
Guy, Les Indes florissantes:
anthologie des voyageurs français (1750[-]1820), Paris: Laffont,
1991
Selection
of travel writings by officials, travellers, and scholars associated
with the India of the Compagnie des Indes Orientales; contains
bibliography.
Deperthe,
J.L.H.S., Relations d’infortunes
sur mer, 1781; as Histoire
des naufrages; ou, Recueil des relations les plus interessantes
des naufrages, hivernements, de laissemens, incendies, famines
at autres évenmens funestes sur mer; qui ont été publiés depuis
le quinzième siècle jusqu’à présent, Paris: Cuchet, 1789
Forster,
R.P. (editor), A Collection
of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels from the Discovery
of America to the Present Times: Arranged in Systematic Order,
Geographical and Chronological …, 4 vols, Newcastle upon Tyne:
Mackenzie and Dent, 1817[-]18
Fulford, Tim and Peter J. Kitson (editors),
Travels, Explorations and
Empires 1770[-]1835, 4 vols, London: Pickering and Chatto,
2001
The first tranche (North America, The North and South Poles, The
Middle East, The Far East) of an eight-volume anthology of
travel writers in English.
Green, John (editor), A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels:
Consisting of the Most Esteemed Relations Which Have Been Hitherto
Published in Any Language, 4 vols, London: Thomas Astley,
1745 [1743[-]47]
The editor’s advertised method is to
separate a traveller’s “Journals and Adventures from his Remarks
on Countries; the first we give by itself; the latter we incorporate
with the Remarks of other Travellers to the same parts” (Preface).
Hakluyt, Richard (editor), The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries
of the English Nation, Made by Sea or over Land, to the Most Remote
and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time with the
Compasse of These 1500 Yeeres, London, 1589; edited with an
introduction by D.B. Quinn and R.A. Skelton, Cambridge: Hakluyt
Society, 1965
Much
of the material in Hakluyt’s first collection was appearing in
print for the first time.
Hakluyt,
Richard (editor), The Principal
Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English
Nation, Made by Sea or over-land, to the Remote and Farthest Distant
Quarters of the Earth at Any Time within the Compasse of These
1500 Yeeres: Divided into Three Severall Volumes, According to
the Positions of the Regions, Whereunto They Were Directed,
3 vols, London: Bishop Newberie and Barker, 1598[-]1600; 12
vols, Glasgow: MacLehose, 1903[-]05
Since
the beginning of the 19th century, excerpts, often on particular
themes such as Elizabethan seamen, have also been published.
Harris, John (editor), Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca;
or, A Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels: Consisting of
above Four Hundred of the Most Authentick Writers …, 2 vols,
London: Thomas Bennet, John Nicholson and Daniel Midwinter, 1705;
revised and augmented editions, 1744[-]48 and 1764
Herrmann,
Frank and Michael Allen (editors), Travellers’
Tales, London: Castlereagh Press, 1999
Selection
of short pieces -- not all of them travel experiences -- by current
members of the Travellers Club, London.
Hulsius,
Levinus, [Sammlung von]
26 Schiffahrten, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, and Hannover: Hulsius
and successors, 1598[-]1660
Hulsius’s
initial eight volumes of voyages in German translation were expanded
into a long-running but irregularly appearing set after his death
in 1606.
Kerr,
Robert (editor), A General
History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Arranged in Systematic
Order, 18 vols, 1811[-]24; Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1824
Kerr,
who died in 1813, was responsible for the first ten volumes.
Laporte,
Joseph de, Le Voyageur françois;
ou, La connoissance de l’Ancien et du Nouveau monde, 26 vols, Paris: Cellot, 1769
Lorimer,
Joyce (editor), English
and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon, 1550[-]1646, London:
Hakluyt Society, 1989
Major,
R.H. (editor), India
in the Fifteenth Century, London: Hakluyt Society, 1857; reprinted, New York: Franklin,
1963
Major,
R.H. (editor), Early Voyages
to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia: A Collection of Documents,
and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History
of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning
of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook, London:
Hakluyt Society, 1859
Manuzio,
Antonio (editor), Viaggi
fatti da Vinetia, alla Tana, in Persia, in India, et in Constantinopoli
…, Venice: Aldus, 1543; 2nd edition, 1545
Travelogues
by various hands: Giosofat Barbaro’s and Ambrogio Contarini’s
15th-century Persian journeys; Aloigi de Giovanni’s voyage to
“Colocut”; the Libre tre delle cose de Turchi (1539) attributed
to Benedetto Ramberti. (The Barbaro and Contarini narratives were
translated into English by William Thomas (died 1554), Clerk of
the Council to King Edward VI, and were published together by
the Hakluyt Society in 1873, and in a Russian/Italian version
by Nauka, Leningrad, in 1971.)
Markham,
Clements R. (editor and translator), Expeditions
into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639, London:
Hakluyt Society, 1859
Mavor,
William, Historical Account
of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries from
the Time of Columbus to the Present Period, 25 vols, London:
E. Newbery, 1796[-]1801; New York: T. and J. Swords, 1796[-]1803
Compilation
in small (12mo) format by writer of educational works and guidebooks.
Moore,
John Hamilton (editor), A
New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels, Containing
All That Have Been Remarkable from the Earliest Period to the
Present Time, 2 vols, London: Hogg [1778?]
Illustrated
with fine copper-plates.
Newby,
Eric (editor), A Book of
Travellers’ Tales, London: Collins, 1985
Geographically
arranged selection with short pieces ranging from antiquity to
the present, from the hilarious (Redmond O’Hanlon and James Fenton
fishing in Borneo) to the tragic (Mungo Park’s last letter to
his wife).
Osborne,
Thomas (editor), A Collection
of Voyages and Travels, Consisting of Authentic Writers in Our
Own Tongue … and Continued with Others of Note …, 2 vols,
London: Osborne, 1745
Illustrated folios of travel texts from
the library of the earl of Oxford (known as the Harleian Collection).
Pelham,
Cavendish (editor), The
World; or, the Present State of the Universe: Being a General
and Complete Collection of Modern Voyages and Travels: Selected,
Arranged, and Digested, from the Narratives of the Latest and
Most Authentic Travellers and Navigators … Embellished with Upwards
of One Hundred and Thirty Beautiful Engravings, 2 vols, London:
J. Stratford, 1806[-]08
Peres,
Damião (editor), Viagens
e naufrágios célebres dos séculos XVI, XVII e VIII, 4 vols,
Porto: Oliveira, 1937[-]38
Pinkerton,
John (editor), A General
Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels
in All Parts of the World: Many of Which Are Now First Translated
into English. Digested on a New Plan, 17 vols, London: Longman
Hurst Rees and Orme,
1808[-]14; Philadelphia: Kimber and Conrad, 1810[-]12
English
versions of travel writings arranged by continent in an attempt
at the “most complete collection” of travel writing ever in any
language.
Prévost,
Abbé François, Histoire
générale des voyages; ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations
de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu’à
présent dans les differentes langues de toutes les nations connues
…, 19 vols, Paris: Didot, 1746[-]89
French
compilation continued after Prévost’s death (1763) by other hands.
Purchas,
Samuel, Hakluytus Posthumus;
or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History
of the World, in Sea Voyages & Lande-Travells, by Englishmen & Others, 4 vols, London: Fetherstone, 1625; reprinted
New York: AMS Press, 1965
Ramusio,
Giovanni Battista, Navigationi
et viaggi, 3 vols, Venice: Giunti, 1550[-]59; facsimile, edited
and with an introduction by R.A. Skelton, Amsterdam: Theatrum
Orbis Terrarum, 1967[-]70
The
Navigationi et viaggi was reissued, with
additions, in the half-century following Ramusio’s death, but
then not republished in its entirety until modern times.
Ray,
John (editor), A Collection
of Curious Travels and Voyages, 2 vols, London: Smith and
Walford, 1693; 2nd edition, 1705
Travels
of the English botanist combined with texts by Leonhardt Rauwolff
(translated by Nicholas Staphorst) and Pierre Belon inter alia.
Roberts,
David (editor), Points Unknown:
A Century of Great Exploration, London: Norton, 2001
Selections
from 20th-century exploration and adventure narratives.
Rundall,
Thomas (editor), Narratives
of Voyages towards the North-West, in Search of a Passage to Cathay
and India, 1496 to 1631: With Selections from the Early Records
of the Honourable the East India Company and from MSS. in the
British Museum, London: Hakluyt Society, 1849
Rundall,
Thomas (editor), Memorials
of the Empire of Japon in the XVI and XVII Centuries, London:
Hakluyt Society, 1850
Stevens,
John (editor), A New Collection
of Voyages and Travels: With Historical Accounts of Discoveries
and Conquests in All Parts of the World. None of them Ever before
Printed in English; Being Now First Translated from the Spanish,
Italian, French, Dutch, Portuguese and Other Languages. Adorn’d
with Cuts, London: Knapton, 1708[-]10; reissued, 2 vols, 1711
Cieza
de León, Texeira, and Fr. Tellez are among the authors represented
in this seven-part publication.
Wilkinson,
John, Joyce Hill and W.F. Ryan (editors), Jerusalem
Pilgrimage 1099[-]1185, London: Hakluyt Society, 1988
Colonist and Settler Narratives
Colonist
Narratives
Adams, Cecilia and Parthenia Blank,
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia
Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary, 1990
Allison, Susan, A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia: The Recollections of Susan
Allison, edited by Margaret A. Ormsby, 1976
Anderson, Andrew A., Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in the Gold Regions
of Africa, 2 vols, 1887
Baker, Samuel White, The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, 1867
Beeson, Welborn, The Oregon and Applegate Trail Diary of Welborn
Beeson in 1853: The Unabridged Diary, 1987
Benemann, William (editor), A Year of Mud and Gold: San Francisco in Letters
and Diaries, 1849[-]1850, 1999
Benezet, Anthony, Some Historical Account of Guinea: Its Situation,
Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants, with
an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave-Trade, Its
Nature and Lamentable Effects, 1771; new edition, 1788; reprinted,
1968
Bennett, James, Overland Journey to California: Journal of James Bennett, Whose Party
Left New Harmony in 1850 and Crossed the Plains and Mountains
until the Golden West Was Reached, 1987
Bickham, William Dennison, A Buckeye in the Land of Gold: The Letters
and Journal of William Dennison Bickham, edited by Randall
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1991
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Boehmer, Elleke, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant
Metaphors, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
Cheyfitz, Eric, The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest
to Tarzan, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991; revised
edition, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997
Daniels, Kay, Convict Women, St Leonards, New South Wales: Allen and Unwin, 1998
Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle
and James Arthur Levernier, The
Indian Captivity Narrative, 1550[-]1900, New York: Twayne,
1993
Duffield, Ian and James Bradley, Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on
Convict Forced Labour Migration, London: Leicester University
Press, 1997
Edmondson, Belinda, Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and
Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative, Durham, North Carolina:
Duke University Press, 1999
Ferraro, Thomas J., Ethnic Passages: Literary Immigrants in Twentieth-Century
America, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993
Fulford, Tim and Peter J. Kitson (editors),
Romanticism and Colonialism:
Writing and Empire, 1780[-]1830, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1998
Georgi-Findlay, Brigitte, The Frontiers of Women’s Writing: Women’s Narratives
and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion, Tucson: University
of Arizona Press, 1996
Glage, Liselotte (editor), Being/s in Transit: Traveling, Migration, Dislocation,
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000
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London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980
Greenblatt, Stephen J., Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture,
New York: Routledge, 1990
Greenblatt, Stephen J., Marvellous Possessions: The Wonder of the New
World, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, and Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991
Greenblatt, Stephen J., New World Encounters, Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1993
Hammond, Dorothy and Alta Jablow, The Africa That Never Was: Four Centuries of
British Writing about Africa, New York: Twayne, 1970
Harris, Michael, Outsiders and Insiders: Perspectives of Third
World Culture in British and Post-Colonial Fiction, New York:
Peter Lang, 1992
Hesse, Jurgen (editor), Voices of Change: Immigrant Writers Speak Out,
Vancouver, British Columbia: Pulp Press, 1990
Hulme, Peter, Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492[-]1797,
London and New York: Methuen, 1986
Itwaru, Arnold Harrichand, The Invention of Canada: Literary Text and
the Immigrant Imaginary, Toronto: TSAR, 1990
Limerick, Patricia Nelson, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of
the American West, New York: Norton, 1987
Low, Gail Ching-Liang, White Skins Black Masks: Representation and
Colonialism, London and New York: Routledge, 1996
Memmi, Albert, The Colonizer and the Colonized, translated by Howard Greenfield,
introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre, New York: Orion Press, 1965,
London: Souvenir Press, 1974; revised edition, Boston: Beacon
Press, 1991 (French edition, 1957)
Namais, June, White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier, Chapel
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from the German by Shelley L. Frisch, Princeton, New Jersey: Wiener,
1997
Oxley, Deborah, Convict Maids: The Forced Migration
of Women to Australia, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University
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Pratt, Mary Louise, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation,
London and New York: Routledge, 1992
Said, Edward W., Culture and Imperialism, New York: Knopf,
and London: Chatto and Windus, 1993
Said, Edward W., Orientalism, New York: Pantheon, and London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978; with new afterword, New York:
Vintage, 1994, London: Penguin, 1995
Sayre, Gordon M., “Les Sauvages Américains”: Representations
of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature,
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997
Slotkin, Richard, Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology
of the American Frontier, 1660[-]1860, Middletown, Connecticut:
Wesleyan University Press, 1973
Sypher, Wylie, Guinea’s Captive Kings: British Anti-Slavery Literature of the XVIIIth
Century, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1942; reprinted, New York: Octagon, 1969
White, Hayden, Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism, Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1978
Zaborowska, Magdalena J., How We Found America: Reading Gender Through
East-European Immigrant Narratives, Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1995
Christopher Columbus 1451[-]1506
Italo-Hispanic
navigator
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The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus, edited and translated by J.H. Cohen,
1969 Includes
the log, various letters, and contemporary documents.
Cartas de particulares a Colón y Relaciones coetáneas, edited by Juan Gil and Consuelo Varela,
2 vols, 1984
The Diario of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage
to America, 1491[-]1492, Abstracted by Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
(bilingual edition), edited
and translated by Oliver Dunn and James E. Kelley, Jr, 1989
Further
Reading
Abajo Fernandez,
Joaquin, Cristóbal Colón, hombre, genio, mistico; conferencia
pronunciada en ocasion del aniversario de la raza el dia 12 de
octubre de 1937, por Guillermo de Zendegui ... Havana: Sociedad
Colombista Panamericana, 1937
Abbott, John
S. C., The Life of Christopher Columbus, New York: Dodd Mead, 1875
Adams, Charles
Kendall, Christopher Columbus:
His Life and His Work, New York: Dodd Mead, 1892
Adams, Herbert
B. and Henry Wood, Columbus and His Discovery of America, Baltimore,
Maryland: Johns Hopkins Press, 1892
Alexander, Philip
F. (editor), The Discovery
of America, 1492[-]1684, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1917
Alponte, Juan
Maria, Cristóbal Colón:
un ensayo historico incomodo, Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura
Economica, 1992
Axtell, James, Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North
America, New
York: Oxford University
Press, 1992
Barreto, Mascarenhas,
The Portuguese Columbus: Secret Agent of King John II, translated
by Reginald A. Brown, New York: St Martin’s Press, and London:
Macmillan, 1992
Bedini, Silvio
A., (editor), The Christopher
Columbus Encyclopedia, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992
Benitez, Fernando,
1992: que celebramos, que
lamentamos, Mexico
City: Era, 1992
Bushman, Claudia
L., America Discovers Columbus: How an Italian Explorer Became an American
Hero, Hanover, New Hampshire: University
Press of New England, 1992
Catz, Rebecca,
Christopher Columbus and
the Portuguese, 1476[-]1498,
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993
Columbus, Ferdinand (Fernando Colón),
The Life of the Admiral
Christopher Columbus, by His Son Ferdinand, translated by
Benjamin Keen, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press,
1959, London: Folio Society, 1960; 2nd edition, with new introduction,
Rutgers University Press, 1992
Modern translation of the earliest
biography.
Davidson, Miles H., Columbus Then and Now: A Life Reexamined, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1997
An attempt at a reconciliation of differing
views.
Dotson, John
(editor and translator), Christopher
Columbus and His family: The Genoese and Ligurian documents,
Turnhout: Brepols, 1998
Gramusset, François
and Luiz Ferraz, 1492[-]1992:
rencontres; ou, cataclysmes: actes des journees de novembre 1992,
Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 1995
Herbert, John
R. (editor), 1492: An Ongoing
Voyage, Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1992
Houriez, Jacques
(editor), Christophe Colomb
et la decouverte de l'Amerique : mythe et histoire: actes du colloque
international, Paris : Diffusion Les Belles Lettres, 1994
Jones, Mary Ellen
(editor), Christopher Columbus
and His Legacy: Opposing Viewpoints, San Diego, California:
Greenhaven Press, 1992
Lunenfel, Marvin
(editor), 1492: Discovery,
Invasion, Encounter: Sources and Interpretation, Lexington,
Massachusetts: D.C. Heath, 1991
Madariaga, Salvador de, Christopher Columbus: Being the Life of the
Very Magnificent Lord Don Cristóbal Colón, London: Hodder
and Stoughton, 1939, New York: Macmillan, 1940; new edition, Hodder
and Stoughton, 1949
Materassi, Mario
and Maria Irene Ramalho de Sousa Santos (editors), The American Columbiad: Discovering America, Inventing the United States,
Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1996
Morison, Samuel Eliot, Christopher
Columbus: Admiral of the Ocean Sea, London: Oxford University
Press, 1942; as Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, Boston:
Little Brown, 1942
Two classic 20th-century biographies.
Moyssen, Xavier
and Louise Noelle (editors), 1492[-]1992:
V centenario, arte e historia, Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones
Esteticas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1993
Russell, Jeffrey
Bunton, Inventing the Flat
Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians, New York: Praeger,
1991
Sale, Kirkpatrick, The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus
and the Columbian Legacy, New York: Knopf, 1990; London: Hodder
and Stoughton, 1991
Assessment by a prominent debunker
of the Columbian myth.
Zamora, Margarita, Reading Columbus, Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1993
A scholarly examination of Columbus
as a writer.
Joseph Conrad 1857[-]1924
Polish-born
English novelist and travel writer
Travel Writing
The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions, 1906
A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences, 1912
The Works of Joseph Conrad, uniform edition, 22 vols, 1923[-]28
Further Reading
Carabine, Keith (editor), Joseph Conrad: Critical Assessments, 4
vols, Mountfield, East Sussex: Helm Information, 1992
The most comprehensive and easily accessible
collection of material (282 documents, plus chronology and bibliography)
concerning Conrad’s life and work.
Karl, Frederick R. and Laurence Davies
(editors), The Collected
Letters of Joseph Conrad, 5 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1983[-]86
The definitive edition of Conrad’s
letters.
Knowles, Owen and Gene Moore (editors),
The Oxford Reader’s Companion
to Conrad, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
Presents the latest scholarly findings
concerning Conrad’s life, works, and reputation as well as their
historical and cultural contexts.
Najder, Zdzisław, Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, and New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers
University Press, 1983
Certainly the best biography of Conrad.
Stape, J.H. (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad,
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996
Twelve essays presenting recent research
results concerning the most important aspects of Conrad’s life
and works.
White, Andrea, Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition: Constructing and Deconstructing
the Imperial Subject, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1993
Covers exhaustively Conrad’s indebtedness
to and transformation of 19th-century British travel writing and
adventure fiction.
Constantinople
Travel
Writing
Brock, Sebastian, “A Medieval Armenian
Pilgrim’s Description of Constantinople”, Revue des Études Arméniennes, new series, 4 (1967): 81[-]102
Clavijo, Ruy González de, Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403[-]1406, translated
by Guy le Strange, 1928
Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battuta, a.d.
1325[-]1354, translated by H.A.R. Gibb, 3 vols, 1958[-]71
Majeska, George P. (editor), Russian Travelers to Constantinople in the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, 1984
Odo of Deuil, De profectione Ludovico VII in orientem / The Journey of Louis VII to
the East, edited and translated by Virginia Gingerick Berry,
1948
Schiltberger, Johannes, The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger,
a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396[-]1427,
translated by J. Buchan Telfer, 1879
Tafur, Pero, Travels and Adventures, 1435[-]1439, translated and edited by Malcolm
Letts, 1926
Wright, Thomas (editor), Early Travels in Palestine: Comprising the
Narratives of ... Benjamin of Tudela, etc., 1848
Further Reading
Arbagi, Martin G., “Byzantium in Latin
Eyes, 800[-]1204” (dissertation), New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers
University, 1969
Cameron, Alan D.E., “Constantinople”
in The Oxford Classical
Dictionary, 3rd edition, edited by Simon Hornblower and Anthony
Spawforth, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996
Ciggaar, Krijnie N., Western Travellers to Constantinople: The West
and Byzantium, 962[-]1204: Cultural and Political Relations,
Leiden and New York: Brill, 1996
Clari, Robert of, The Conquest of Constantinople, edited
by Edgar Holmes McNeal, New York: Columbia University Press, 1936;
reprinted, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996
Ebels-Hoving, Bunna, Byzantium in Westerse ogen, 1096[-]1204,
Assen: Van Gorcum, 1971
Janin, R., Constantinople byzantine: développement urbain et répertoire topographique,
2nd edition, Paris: Institut Français d’Études Byzantines, 1964
Mango, Cyril, Le Développement urbain de Constantinople (IVe[-]VIIe siècles), Paris:
Boccard, 1985; with addenda, 1990
Mango, Cyril and Gilbert Dagron (editors),
Constantinople and Its Hinterland:
Papers from the Twenty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies,
Oxford, April 1993, Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum, 1995
Vin, J.P.A. van der, Travellers to Greece and Constantinople: Ancient
Monuments and Old Traditions in Medieval Travellers’ Tales,
2 vols, Leiden: Nederlands Historisch-Archeoologisch Institut
te Istanbul, 1980
Vasiliev, A., “Harun-ibn-Yahya and
His Description of Constantinople”, Seminarium
Kondakovianum, 5 (1932): 149[-]63
Niccolò dei Conti c.1395[-]1469
Italian
merchant and traveler
Travel
Writing
“The
Travels of Nicolò Conti in the East in the Early Part of the Fifteenth
Century”, translated by J. Winter Jones, in India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a Collection
of Narratives of Voyages to India, edited by R.H. Major, 1857
In
Viaggi in Persia, India e Giava di Nicolò de’
Conti, Girolamo Adorno e Girolamo da Santo Stefano, by Poggio
Bracciolini, edited by Mario Longhena, 1929; 2nd edition, 1960
In
Navigazioni e viaggi,
by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, edited by Marcia Milanesi, vol.
2, 1979: 781[-]820 Italian
version.
In
De varietate fortunae,
by Poggio Bracciolini, edited by Outi Merisalo, 1993
Critical
edition of the Latin text.
L’India
di Nicolò de’ Conti: un manoscritto del Libro IV del De Varietate
Fortunae di Francesco Poggio Braccioloni da Terranova (Marc. 260),
edited by Alessandro Grossato, 1994
Facsimile,
Latin transcription, and Italian translation of Book 4.
In
Indien und Europa im Mittelalter,
edited by Wilhelm Baum and Raimund Senoner, 2000: 154[-]204 German
translation.
Further
Reading
Bellomo,
Vincenzo, La cosmografia
e le scoperte geografiche nel secolo XV e i viaggi di Nicolò de’
Conti, Padua: Tipografia del Seminario, 1908
Blum,
Daniel, “Die europäischen Entdeckungen Indiens: Diversifikation
der Indienwahr-nehmung in europäischen Reiseberichten des 15.
Jahrhunderts”, Saeculum, 50/2 (1999): 211[-]33
Caracci,
Giuseppe, “Viaggiatori italiani in Persia nel Medioevo”, Il Veltro, 14 (1970): 39[-]60
Hamann,
Günther, entry on Conti, in Lexikon
des Mittelalters, 3 (1986): 197[-]98
Hennig,
Richard, Terrae incognitae,
2nd ed., Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1956, vol. 4: 33-43
Henze,
Dietmar, Enzyklopädie der
Entdecker und Erforscher der Erde, vol. 1, Graz: Akademische
Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1978: 636-42 (entry on Conti).
Jandesek,
Reinhold, Das fremde China:
Berichte europäischer Reisender des späten Mittelalters und der
frühen Neuzeit, Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus, 1992
Kunstmann,
Friedrich, Die Kenntniss Indiens im 15. Jahrhundert, Munich: Weiss,
1863
Peschel,
Oscar, “Die Reisen des Nicolò de’ Conti” in his Abhandlungen zur Erd- und Völkerkunde, Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot,
1877, vol. 1: 177[-]87
Schmidt,
Thomas Christian, “Die Entdeckung des Ostens und der Humanismus:
Nicolò de’ Conti und Poggio Bracciolinis Historia de Varietate Fortunae”, Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische
Geschichtsforschung, 103 (1995): 392[-]418
Sensburg,
Waldemar, Poggio Bracciolini und Niccolò de Conti in ihrer Bedeutung
für die Geographie des Renaissancezeitalters”, Mitteilungen
der Kaiserlich Königlichen Geographischen Gesellschaft in Wien,
49 (1906): 257[-]372
Surdich,
F., entry on Conti, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 28
(1983): 457[-]60
Cook’s Tours
Travel Writing
Thomas
Cook & Son published a newspaper, Cook’s
Excursionist, from 1851 to 1939, which was the company’s primary
means of reaching the public. (From 1903 to 1939 it was known
as Cook’s Traveller’s Gazette.) The company also published numerous guidebooks
to its destinations. The Thomas Cook Company Archives in Peterborough,
UK, has an extensive collection of these materials.
Further Reading
Brendon, Piers, Thomas Cook: 150 Years of Popular Tourism, London: Secker and Warburg,
1991
A thorough history of the Thomas Cook
Company.
Buzard,
James, The Beaten Track:
European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture, 1800[-]1918,
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
An analysis of European tourism during
the 19th and early 20th centuries, and of the emerging distinction
between “travellers” and “tourists”.
Pudney, John, The Thomas Cook Story, London: Michael Joseph, 1953
An early history of the Thomas Cook
Company.
Swinglehurst, Edmund, The Romantic Journey: The Story of Thomas Cook
and Victorian Travel, London: Pica, and New York: Harper and
Row, 1974
A lavishly illustrated history of the
Thomas Cook Company in the 19th century, written by the company’s
former archivist.
Swinglehurst, Edmund, Cook’s Tours: The Story of Popular Travel,
Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1982
Another lavishly illustrated history
of Cook’s Tours.
Withey, Lynne, Grand Tours and Cook’s Tours: A History of Leisure Travel, 1750 to 1915,
New York: Morrow, 1997; London: Aurum Press, 1998
A history of popular travel.
James Fenimore Cooper 1789[-]1851
American
novelist and travel writer
Travel Writing
Sketches of Switzerland, by an American, 2 vols, 1836;
as Excursions in Switzerland,
2 vols, 1836; as Gleanings
in Europe: Switzerland, 1980
Sketches of Switzerland, Part Second: A Residence
in France; with an Excursion up the Rhine, and a Second Visit
to Switzerland, 2 vols, 1836; as Gleanings
in Europe: The Rhine, edited by Thomas Philbrick and Maurice
Geracht, with an introduction by Ernest Redekop and Maurice Geracht,
1986
Recollections of Europe, 2 vols, 1837; as Gleanings in Europe, 1837
Gleanings in Europe, vol. 1: France, edited by Robert
E. Spiller, 1928; edited by Thomas Philbrick and Constance Ayers
Denne, with an introduction by Thomas Philbrick, 1983
England: With Sketches of Society in the Metropolis, 1837; as Gleanings in Europe, vol. 2: England,
edited by Robert Spiller, 1930; revised edition, 1982
Gleanings in Europe: Italy, 1838; as Excursions in Italy,
1838; revised edition, 1981
Further Reading
Cooper, James Fenimore, Correspondence, edited by James Fenimore
Cooper (grandson), 2 vols, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University
Press, 1922
Cooper, James Fenimore, The Letters and Journals, edited by James
Franklin Beard, 6 vols, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press, 1960[-]68
Grossman, James, James Fenimore Cooper, London: Methuen,
1950; Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1967
Hanley, Wayne, “James Fenimore Cooper
in France: One Man’s View of the July Revolution of 1830”, Connecticut Review, 18/1 (Spring 1996):
131[-]43
Long, Robert Emmet, James Fenimore Cooper, New York: Continuum,
1990
MacDougall, Hugh C., “Cooper and Tocqueville”,
James Fenimore Cooper Society
Newsletter, 8/3 (November 1997): 4[-]6
Myers, Andrew B., “Europe as Found:
Cooper Writes Home”, Columbia
Library Columns, 31/2 (February 1982): 28[-]36
Philbrick, Thomas, “Cooper’s Naval
Friend in Paris”, American
Literature, 52/4 (January 1981): 634[-]38
Redekop, Ernest H., “Real versus Imagined
History: Cooper’s European Novels”, Mosaic, 22/4 (Fall 1989): 81[-]97
Test, George A., James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His
Art, Oneonta: State University of New York, 1981
Verhoven, W.M. (editor), James Fenimore Cooper: New Historical and Literary
Contexts, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993
Woodress, James, “The Fortunes of Cooper
in Italy”, Studi-Americani,
11 (1965): 53[-]76
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
1510[-]1554
Spanish
explorer and soldier
Travel Writing
Castañeda,
Pedro de, “Relación de la jornada de Cíbola compuesta por Pedro
de Castañeda de Nájera donde se trata de todos aquellos poblados
y ritos y costumbres, la cual fue el año de 1540”
Manuscript
at Lennox Library in the New York Public Library.
Further Reading
Bolton, Herbert E., Coronado, Knight of Pueblos and Plains,
New York: Whittlesey House, 1949; reprinted Albuquerque: University
of New Mexico Press, 1991
Hammond, George P., Coronado’s Seven Cities, Albuquerque: United
States Coronado Exposition Commission, 1940
Preston, Douglas, Cities of Gold: A Journey across the American
Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado, New York: Simon and Schuster,
1992
Winship, George Parker, “The Coronado
Expedition, 1540[-]42” in Fourteenth
Annual Report of the US Bureau of American Ethnology, 1892[-]93, part 1, Washington, DC, 1896
Hernán Cortés 1485[-]1547
Spanish
soldier and conquistador
Travel Writing
Cartas de relación: primera carta, July 1519, published
1842; Segunda carta,
April 1522, published November 1522; Tercera
carta, May 1522, published March 1523; Cuarta
carta, October 1524, published 1525; Quinta
carta, 1526, published 1844 [Letters of Relation: First Letter,
Second Letter, Third Letter, Fourth Letter, and Fifth Letter]
Cartas y relaciones de Hernan Cortés al emperador Carlos v, 1866; as The Letters of Cortés: The Five Letters of Relation from Fernando Cortés
to Emperor Charles V, edited and translated by Francis Augustus
MacNutt, 1908
Letters from Mexico, edited and translated by A.R. Pagden, 1971; with an introduction by J.H.
Elliott, 1986
Introduction
to Cortés’s life and work and a modern translation of the letters
with extensive notes.
Further Reading
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517[-]1521,
edited by Genaro García, translated by A.P. Maudslay, New York:
Harper, and London: Routledge, 1928; as The
Conquest of New Spain, translated and with an introduction
by J.M. Cohen, London: Penguin, 1963
A soldier under Cortés’s command, he
wrote Historia verdadera
de la conquista de la Nueva España in 1568 from the vantage
of age with the aim of correcting what he considered the inaccuracies
of Gómara’s history.
López de Gómara, Francisco, Cortés: The Life of the Conqueror by His Secretary,
translated and edited by Lesley Byrd Simpson, Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1964
A translation of the Historia de la conquista de México by the
first historian of the conquest of Mexico, printed in 1552.
Thomas, Hugh, The Conquest of Mexico, London: Hutchinson, 1993; as Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of
Old Mexico, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993
An account of the 1519[-]1521 campaign
by Cortés to conquer the Aztecs of Mexico, from the landing of
Cortés and 500 conquistadores to the eventual victory of the Spanish
over the indigenous people. With an annotated bibliography.
Thomas Coryate c.1577[-]1617
English
traveller and writer
Travel
Writing
Coryats Crudities, Hastily Gobled up in Five
Moneths Travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, Commonly Called
the Grisons Country …, Helvetia alias Switzerland, Some Parts
of High Germany, and the Netherlands 1611; 3 vols, 1776 [volume
3 includes most of the contents of Coryats Crambe, 1611; most of John Taylor
the Water Poet’s works lampooning Coryate; one of Coryate’s published
letters from India; all the material published by Samuel Purchas;
and extracts from Edward Terry’s A
Voyage to East India, 1655. Terry, Sir Thomas Roe’s chaplain,
gives a convincing character sketch, but is unreliable about Coryate’s
itinerary]; 2 vols, 1905 [1611 pagination in margin]; facsimile,
with an introduction by William M. Schutte, 1978
“Master
Thomas Coryates Travels to, and Observations in Constantinople
and Other Places in the Way Thither” in Purchas
His Pilgrimes, edited by Samuel Purchas, 4 vols, 1625; reprinted
as Hakluytus Posthumus, 20 vols, 1905[-]07
Purchas’s
drastically abbreviated version of Coryate’s diary and notes,
covering his journey to Constantinople, his stay there, and his
journey to Palestine, which he sent home from Aleppo before setting
out for India in September 1614.
Foster,
William (editor), Early
Travels in India, 1585[-]1618, 1921; reprinted, 1975
Contains
all five letters from India, using the texts of the pamphlets
published in 1616 and 1618, but omitting some of Coryate’s greetings
to individuals and all but one of the illustrations. Also included
are the notes on India that Coryate gave to Roe and Edward Terry’s
reminiscences of Coryate. All are admirably annotated. For details
of the 1616 and 1618 pamphlets see Strachan (1962), pp.295[-]96.
Further
Reading
Baffin,
William, A Description of
East India (map), London: Thomas Sterne, 1619
Map
of Moghul India, also known as Sir
Thomas Roe’s Map, drawn and published by Baffin from information
accumulated by Roe, for whom Coryate was an important source.
Bates,
E.S., Touring in 1600: A
Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education,
London: Constable, and Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911
Chew,
Samuel C., The Crescent
and the Rose: Islam and England during the Renaissance, London
and New York: Oxford University Press, 1937
Epstein,
M., The Early History of
the Levant Company, London: Routledge, and New York: Dutton,
1908; reprinted, New York: A.M. Kelley, 1968
Foster,
William (editor), The Embassy
of Sir Thomas Roe to India 1615[-]19: As Narrated in His Journal
and Correspondence, new and revised edition, 1 vol., London:
Oxford University Press, 1926
Supersedes
Foster’s Hakluyt Society edition, 2 vols, 1899
Hammer,
Joseph von, Geschichte des
Osmanischen Reiches, vols 4[-]5, Pest: Hartleben, 1829
Hinchcliffe,
Edgar, “Thomae Coriati Testimonium”, Notes
and Queries (October 1968): 370[-]75
Text
and translation of mock passport given to Coryate by members of
the Mermaid Tavern Club.
Kinross,
Patrick Balfour, Lord, The
Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire,
London: Jonathan Cape, and New York: Morrow, 1977
Nicholl,
Charles, “The Field of Bones, Thomas Coryate’s Last Journey”,
London Review of Books, 21/17 (1999): 3[-]7
Pennington,
L.E. (editor), The Purchas
Handbook, 2 vols, London: Hakluyt Society, 1997
Prasad,
Ram Chandra, Early English
Travellers in India: A Study in the Travel Literature of the Elizabethan
and Jacobean Periods with Particular Reference to India,
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1965; revised edition, 1980
Strachan,
Michael, The Life and Adventures
of Thomas Coryate, London and New York: Oxford University
Press, 1962
Includes
bibliography, biographical notes on the contributors to Coryats Crudities, 51 illustrations and four maps.
Strachan,
Michael, “The Mermaid Tavern Club: A New Discovery”, History Today (August 1967): 533[-]38; (October 1967): 691
Describes
the Club and Coryate’s mock passport.
Strachan,
Michael, Sir Thomas Roe,
1581[-]1644: A Life, Salisbury: Michael Russell, 1989
Temple,
Richard Carnac (editor), The
Travels of Peter Mundy, 5 vols, London: Hakluyt Society, 1907[-]67
Wood,
Alfred C., A History of
the Levant Company, London: Oxford University Press, 1935;
New York: Barnes and Noble, 1964
William Coxe 1747[-]1828
British
traveller, historian, and political biographer
Travel
Writing
Sketches of the Natural, Civil, and Political
State of Swisserland; in a Series of Letters to William Melmoth,
Esq., 1779
Account of the Russian Discoveries between
Asia and America: To Which Are Added, the Conquest of Siberia,
and the History of the Transactions and Commerce between Russia
and China, 1780; 4th edition, 1803
Account of the Prisons and Hospitals in Russia,
Sweden and Denmark, 1781
Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark,
2 vols, 1784; 2nd edition, 4 vols, 1787; 5th edition, 5 vols,
1802
Supplement to the Russian Discoveries,
1787
Travels in Switzerland: In a Series of Letters
to William Melmoth, Esq., 3 vols, 1789; 3rd edition, 2 vols,
1794; 4th edition, 1801; Additions
to “Travels in Switzerland”: Containing an Historical Sketch and
Notes on the Late Revolution, 2 vols, 1802
An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire: Illustrated
with Views by Sir R.C. Hoare, Bart., 1801
A Picture of Monmouthshire, or an Abridgement
of Mr. Coxe’s Historical Tour in Monmouthshire: By a Lady,
1802
Further Reading
Adolphus,
John, Review of “Memoirs of the Administration of the Right Honourable
Henry Pelham ... By William Coxe”, Quarterly
Review (October 1833): 88[-]121
This
review concludes with a detailed and accurate biographical summary
of Coxe’s travels (pp.101[-]14).
Coolidge,
W.A.B., Swiss Travel and
Swiss Guide-books, London and New York: Longmans Green, 1889
Merely
incidental references to Coxe, yet a valuable contextual study.
Fritz,
Paul, “Archdeacon William Coxe as Political Biographer” in The Triumph of Culture: 18th Century Perspectives, edited by Paul
Fritz and David Williams, Toronto: A.M. Hakkert, 1972
Herbert,
Sidney, 14th Earl of Pembroke (editor), Henry,
Elizabeth, and George (1734[-]80): Letters and Diaries of Henry,
Tenth Earl of Pembroke and His Circle, 2 vols, London: Jonathan
Cape, 1939
Important
source materials for Coxe’s first continental excursions as tutor
to the 10th earl’s son.
Martyn,
Thomas, Sketch of a Tour
through Swisserland: With an Accurate Map ... To Which Is Added
a Short Account of an Expedition to the Summit of Mont Blanc,
by M. De Saussure, of Geneva, London: Printed for G. Kearsley,
1787
Among
others, Coxe acknowledges Martyn (1735[-]1825) for help in rewriting
Travels in Switzerland (1789).
Wraxall,
Nathaniel William, A Tour
through Some of the Northern Parts of Europe, Particularly Copenhagen,
Stockholm, and Petersburgh, 2nd edition, corrected, London:
Printed for T. Cadell, 1775
Cited
by Coxe among texts consulted in preparation of Travels into Poland.
Crete
Travel
Writing
In
earlier travel literature, Crete is often called by its Venetian
name of Candia. This name was also that of the island’s capital
city, renamed Herakleion at the beginning of the 20th century.
Albin,
Célestin, L’Île de Crète:
Histoire et souvenirs, 1898
Baud-Bovy,
Daniel and Frédéric Boissonnas, Des
Cyclades en Crète au gré du
vent, 1919
Belon,
Pierre, Les Observations
de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables,
trouveés en Grèce etc., 1553
Brewster,
Ralph, The Island of Zeus:
Wanderings in Crete, 1939
Buondelmonti,
Cristoforo, Description
des îles de l’Archipel, edited and translated by Émile Legrand,
1897; reprinted, 1974
This
edition contains the text of a Greek version of the Liber insularum archipelagi, with a translation
into modern French: for Crete, see pp 19[-]23 and pp 175[-]179.
In addition, there are the Latin texts of the Descriptio
insule Candie (pp 101[-]137) and the Descriptio
Cretae (pp139[-]156)]
Buondelmonti,
Christoforo, Descriptio
insule Crete et liber insularum, cap.XI: Creta, edited by
Marie-Anne van Spitael, 1981 [Latin text and French translation]
Burch,
Oliver, Under Mount Ida:
A Journey into Crete, 1989
Dandini,
Girolamo, Missione apostolica
al Patriarca, e Maroniti del Monte Libano,
1656; as A Voyage to Mount
Libanus, 1698
Dapper,
Olfert, Naukeurige beschryving
der eilanden, in de Archipel der Middelantsche
Zee, 1688; as Description
exacte des isles de l’Archipel, 1703
Doren,
David MacNeil, Winds of
Crete, 1974
Edwardes,
Charles, Letters from Crete,
1887
Letters
written during Spring 1886.
Fielding,
Xan, The Stronghold: An
Account of the Four Seasons in the White Mountains
of Crete, with photos by Daphne Bath, 1953
Hakluyt,
Richard, The Principal Navigations,
Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries
of the English Nation, 12 vols, 1903[-]05; 1st edition 1589;
2nd edition, 3 vols, 1598[-]1600
Volume
5 contains Roger Bodenham’s account of a visit to Crete in 1550
(pp 71[-] 6).
Lear,
Edward, The Cretan Journal,
edited by Rowena Fowler, 1984; 2nd edition, 1985
On
Lear’s visit to Crete in 1864.
Lithgow,
William, A Most Delectable,
and True Discourse of an Admired and Painefull Peregrination
... to ... Europe, Asia and Affricke, 1614; as Discourse of a Peregrination in Europe, Asia
and Affricke, 1971
Later
enlarged and published as The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Adventures, and Painefull Peregrinations
of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles, 1632. For Crete, see pp.
77[-]93.
Miller,
Henry, The Colossus of Maroussi,
c.1941
Moryson,
Fynes, An Itinerary Written
by Fynes Moryson ... Containing his Ten Yeeres
Travell etc., 1617; facsimile, 1971
A
four-volume edition was published in 1907[-]08. For Crete, see
pp. 251[-]56.
Pashley,
Robert, Travels in Crete,
2 vols, 1837; reprinted, 1970
A
Greek translation appeared in 1991. One of the most important
19th-century books on Crete.
Pococke,
Richard, A Description of
the East and Some Other Countries, 2 vols, 1743[-]45
The
section on Crete is in volume 2, part 1, pp 239[-]268. Pococke
was one of the leading explorers of his day; his work was translated
into German, French, and Dutch. Warren (see below) calls him “the
founder of the English exploration and identification of ancient
remains in Crete”.
Postlethwaite,
Edward, A Tour in Crete,
1868
Randolph,
Bernard, The Present State
of the Islands in the Archipelago, or Arches, Sea of Constantinople,
and Gulph of Smyrna; with the Islands of Candia and Rhodes,
1687; reprinted, 1983
A
Turkish translation appeared in 1998. For Crete, see pp 69[-]97.
Sandys,
George, A Relation of a
Journey Begun An. Dom. 1610, 1615
Contains
a brief, but interesting, account of a visit to Crete in 1611.
Savary,
Claude Étienne, Lettres
sur la Grèce, 1788; as
Letters on Greece, 1788
Scott,
C. Rochfort, Rambles in
Egypt and Candia, 2 vols, 1837
Sieber,
F.W., Reise nach der Insel
Kreta ... im Jahre 1817, 1823; as Travels in the Island of Crete, in the Year
1817 in New Voyages
and Travels, vol. 8, 1823; reprinted, 1975
A
Greek translation appeared in 1994.
Skinner,
J.E. Hilary, Roughing it
in Crete in 1867, 1868
The
book was translated into Greek in 1868, with a reprint in 1980.
On the insurrection of 1866-1868.
Bickford-Smith,
Roandeu A.H. [R.A.H.], Cretan Sketches, 1898
Spratt,
T.A.B., Travels and Researches
in Crete, 2 vols, 1865; reprinted, 1984
Strabo,
Geography, 8 vols, 1917[-]32
For
Crete, see especially book 10.4.
Thevet,
André, Cosmographie de Levant,
1554; edited by Frank Lestringant, 1985
The
work was translated into German in 1617.
Thorne,
Christopher G., Between
the Seas: A Quiet Walk through Crete, 1992
Tournefort,
Joseph Pitton de, Relation d’un voyage du Levant, 2 vols, 1717; as A Voyage into the Levant, 2 vols, 1718
Webb,
Jackson, The Last Lemon
Grove, illustrated by Delia Delderfield, 1977
Further
Reading
Elliadi,
M.N., Crete Past and Present,
London: Heath Cranton, 1933
Evans,
Arthur, The Palace of Minos,
4 vols, London: Macmillan, 1921[-]35
Godfrey,
Jonnie and Elizabeth Karslake, Landscapes
of Eastern Crete, London: Sunflower, 1986; 2nd edition, 1991
Godfrey,
Jonnie and Elizabeth Karslake, Landscapes
of Western Crete, London: Sunflower, 1987; 2nd edition, 1991
Hemmerdinger
Iliadou, Democratia, “La Crète sous la domination vénitienne et
lors de la conquête turque, 1322[-]1684: Renseignements nouveaux
ou peu connus d’après les pèlerins et les voyageurs”, Studi
Veneziani, 9 (1967): 535[-]623
Contains
a useful list of sixty travellers to Crete, from 1322 to 1684.
Herzfeld,
Michael, A Place in History:
Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town, Princeton, New
Jersey and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 1991 [A study of
the Cretan town of Rethimnon]
Hopkins,
Adam, Crete: Its Past, Present
and People, illustrated by Victor Shreeve, London: Faber,
1977
Kazantzakis,
Nikos, Zorba the Greek,
translated by Carl Wildman, London: Lehmann, and New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1952
The
most famous novel by the best known Cretan writer.
Kazantzakis,
Nikos, Freedom and Death,
translated by Jonathan Griffin, Oxford: Cassirer, 1956
Novel
set against the Turkish occupation of Crete.
Kazantzakis,
Nikos, Report to Greco,
translated by P.A. Bien, Oxford: Cassirer, 1965
Kondylakis,
Ioannis, Patoukhas,
translated by Pierre and Vassiliki Coavoux, Paris and Montréal:
L’Harmattan, 1998
French
translation of a novel set in Crete during the time of the Turkish
occupation.
Miller,
William, “Crete under the Venetians” in his Essays
on the Latin Orient, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1921
Pendlebury,
J.D.S., The Archaeology
of Crete: An Introduction, London: Methuen, 1939
Powell,
Dilys, The Villa Ariadne,
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1973
Prevelakis,
Pandélis, The Tale of a
Town, translated by Kenneth Johnstone, London: Doric, 1976
Life
in Rethimnon.
Prevelakis,
Pandélis, Crète infortunée:
chronique du soulèvement crétois de 1866[-]1869, translated
by Pierre Coavonx, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1976
Prevelakis,
Pandélis, The Cretan,
translated by Abbott Rick (book 1) and Peter Mackridge (books
2 and 3), Minneapolis: Nostos, 1991
Psychoundakis,
George, The Cretan Runner:
His Story of the German Occupation, translated and with an
introduction by Fermor, edited by Fermor and Xan Fielding, London:
John Murray, 1955
Rackham,
Oliver and Jennifer Moody, The
Making of the Cretan Landscape, Manchester and New York: Manchester
University Press, c.1996
Rice,
Warner G., “Early English Travelers to Greece and the Levant”
in Essays and Studies in English and Comparative Literature, Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1933
Rycaut,
Paul, The History of the
Turkish Empire from the Year 1623 to the Year
1677, London: Starkey, 1680
Simopoulos,
Kyriakos, Xenoi taxidiotes
sten Hellada [Foreign Travellers in Greece], 3 vols, Athens,
1970[-]76
Published
in four chronological parts: vol. 1: 333 A.D.[-]1700; vol. 2:
1700[-]1800; vol. 3, part 1: 1800[-]1810; vol. 3, part 2: 1810[-]1821
Simpson,
Tony, Operation Mercury:
The Battle for Crete, 1941, London: Hodder and Stoughton,
1981
Smith,
Michael Llewellyn, The Great
Island: A Study of Crete, London: Longman, 1965
Warren,
Peter, “16th, 17th and 18th Century British Travellers in Crete”,
Kritika Chronika, 24 (1972): 65[-]92
Very
informative article, devoted to five travellers: Moryson, Lithgow,
Sandys, Randolph, and Pococke.
Warren,
Peter, The Aegean Civilizations
from Ancient Crete to Mycenae, 2nd edition, Oxford: Phaidon,
1989; 1st edition, 1975
Crimea
Travel Writing
Alexander,
James Edward, Travels to
the Seat of War in the East, through Russia and the Crimea, in
1829, 2 vols, 1830
Craven,
Elizabeth, A Journey through
the Crimea to Constantinople, 1789
Evliya
Çelebi, Narrative of Travels
in Europe, Asia and Africa in the Seventeenth Century, translated
from the Turkish by Joseph von Hammer, 2 vols, 1834[-]50
Gerakov,
G.V., Travel Notices in
1820, 1828
Markov,
Evgenii, Ocherki Kavkaza
[Caucasian Essays], 1902
Muraviev-Apostol,
I.M., Voyage along the Tavrida
in 1820, 1823
Ségur,
Louis-Philippe, Mémoires;
ou, Souvenirs et anecdotes, Paris: Eymery, 1824[-]26; as The Memoirs and Anecdotes of Count de Ségur, translated by Gerard
Shelley, 1928
Further Reading
Crimea, entry in Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia [Great Soviet Encyclopedia], 3rd
edition, 1970[-]78
Everything about the Crimea, Charkov, 1998
Tavrika
Simferopol, 1998
Crusades
Travel
Writing
Ambroise,
L’Estoire de la guerre saint, edited by
Gaston Paris, 1897; as “The History of the Holy War” in Three Old French Chronicles of the Crusades, translated by Edward
Noble Stone, 1939; as The
Crusade of Richard Lion-Heart, translated by Merton Jerome
Hubert, edited by John L. La Monte, 1941
This
chronicle in verse follows Ambroise’s patron, King Richard I of
England, from his taking of the cross through his departure from
the Holy Land.
Crusade Texts in
Translation, 8 vols, 1996[-]2001
By
making available previously untranslated texts, this new series
from Ashgate Publishing is proving itself an important addition
to modern crusade studies. Some volumes in the series expand the
geographical focus beyond Jerusalem and thereby also expand the
usual range of accounts of travel and life abroad.
De Sandoli, Sabino (editor), Itinera Hierosolymitana Crucesignatorum, 4 vols, 1978[-]83
A massive compendium of excerpts from more than 70 manuscripts
covering the years 1095 to 1291, it features documents in the
original language and in a modern Italian translation.
Documents relatifs à l’histoire des Croisades,
17 vols, 1946[-]95
This
series provides documents in their original language with an introduction
and notes in French.
Edbury,
Peter W. (editor and translator), The
Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Sources in Translation,
1996
Edbury’s
selection includes original accounts of such pivotal events as
the battle of Hattin and the siege of Acre.
Foucher
of Chartres, Historia hierosolymitana
(1095[-]1127), edited by Heinrich Hagenmeyer, 1913; as Chronicle of the First Crusade, translated by Martha E. McGinty, 1941;
as A History of the Expedition
to Jerusalem 1095[-]1127, translated by Frances Rita Ryan,
edited and with an introduction by Harold S. Fink, 1969
A
satisfyingly well-rounded view of the First Crusade and subsequent
events by an alert eyewitness.
Geoffrey
of Villehardouin, La Conquête
de Constantinople, edited by Natalis de Wailly, 1872; as “The
Conquest of Constantinople” in Chronicles
of the Crusades, by Villehardouin and De Joinville, translated
by Frank Marzials, 1908; in Chronicles
of the Crusades, translated by Margaret R.B. Shaw, 1963
An
important document in French prose history from a distinguished
military leader.
Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum
in Gesta Dei per Francos,
1611; as The First Crusade:
The Deeds of the Franks and Other Jerusalemites, translated
by Somerset de Chair, 1945; as The
Deeds of the Franks and the Other Pilgrims to Jerusalem, translated
by Rosalind Hill, 1962
Anonymous
account of the First Crusade from the Council of Clermont to the
battle of Ascalon. Hill’s English translation also includes the
Latin text.
Hallam,
Elizabeth (editor), Chronicles
of the Crusades: Nine Crusades and Two Hundred Years of Bitter
Conflict for the Holy Land Brought to Life through the Words of
Those Who Were Actually There, 1989; as Chronicles
of the Crusades: Eye-Witness Accounts of the Wars between Christianity
and Islam, 2000
The
title says it all; this is an extensive collection of sources
covering a substantial portion of the crusades.
Housley,
Norman (editor and translator), Documents
on the Later Crusades, 1274[-]1580, 1996
This
selection of 62 documents, in English translation, includes letters
and chronicles that refer to travel plans and preparations as
well as other aspects of crusading.
John
of Joinville, Histoire de
Saint-Louis, 1761; as
Mémoires du Sire de Joinville, 1824, many later editions;
as “Memoirs of Louis IX, King of France” in Chronicles of the Crusades, translated
by J.A. Giles and Thomas Johnes, 1848; as “The Life of St Louis”
in Chronicles of the Crusades, translated
by Frank Marzials, 1908; as The
History of St Louis, translated by Joan Evans, 1937; as The Life of St Louis, translated by Rene Hague, 1955; in Chronicles of the Crusades, translated
by Margaret R.B. Shaw, 1963
An
insightful account of the Seventh Crusade by a man who actually
testified on behalf of Louis’s canonization.
Krey,
August C., The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eye Witnesses
and Participants, 1921
An
older but still useful compilation of original sources.
Peters,
Edward (editor), The First
Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source
Materials, 1971; 2nd edition, 1998
The
second edition of this compilation includes new documents from
Arabic and Hebrew sources and generally reflects the expanding
scope of crusade studies.
Raymond
of Aguilers, Historia Francorum
qui ceperunt Iherusalem in Recueil
des historiens des croisades: Historiens Occidentaux, 5 vols,
1844[-]95; reprinted 1967; translated under its original title
by John Hugh Hill and Laurita L. Hill, 1968
Though
his eyewitness account of the First Crusade is generally very
useful, Raymond relates the massacre of the “infidels” at the
fall of Jerusalem with a delight that alienates the modern reader.
Recueil des historiens des croisades, 5
series, 1841[-]1906: Lois:
Assises de Jérusalem, 2 vols, 1841[-]43; all reprinted, 1967;
Historiens Occidentaux, 5 vols, 1844[-]95; Documents Armeniens, 2 vols, 1869[-]1906; Historiens Orientaux, 5 vols, 1872[-]1906; Historiens Grecs, 2 vols, 1875[-]81
The
ultimate resource for original documents relating to the crusades,
it includes such narratives as Radulph of Caen’s Gesta
Tancredi in expeditione Hierosolymitana.
Robert
of Clary, La Conquête de
Constantinople, edited by Philippe Lauer, 1924; as The
Conquest of Constantinople, translated by Edgar Holmes McNeal,
1936; as “The History of Them That Took Constantinople” in Three Old French Chronicles of the Crusades, translated by Edward
Noble Stone, 1939
A
useful chronicle of the Fourth Crusade that enthusiastically recounts
the wonders of the city of Constantinople.
Tudebode,
Peter, Historia de Hierosolymitano
itinere in Recueil des
historiens des croisades: Historiens Occidentaux, 5 vols,
1844[-]95; reprinted, 1967; translated under its original title
by John Hugh Hill and Laurita L. Hill, 1974
The
introduction to the translation provides a good discussion of
the controversy surrounding Tudebode’s eyewitness account of the
First Crusade.
William,
Archbishop of Tyre, Historia
rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum in Recueil
des historiens des croisades: Historiens Occidentaux, 5 vols,
1844[-]95, reprinted, 1967; as The
History of Godefrey of Boloyne and of the Conquest of Iherusalem,
translated by William Caxton, 1481, reprinted, 1893; as A
History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea, translated by Emily
Atwater Babcock and A.C. Krey, 1943
One
of the best-known crusade chronicles, written by a prominent and
exceptionally well-travelled ecclesiastic.
Further Reading
Atiya,
Aziz S., Crusade, Commerce,
and Culture, London: Oxford University Press, and Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1962
Atiya,
Aziz S., The Crusade: Historiography
and Bibliography, London: Oxford University Press, and Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1962
These
companion volumes are just two of Atiya’s important contributions
to the subject.
France,
John and William G. Zajac (editors), The
Crusades and Their Sources: Essays Presented to Bernard Hamilton,
Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 1998
An
excellent and wide-ranging collection of essays by some of the
most prominent people working on the crusades today; includes
comparisons and in-depth studies of primary sources.
Jones,
Terry and Alan Ereira, Crusades,
London: BBC Books, 1994; New York: Facts on File, 1995
This
enjoyable introduction to the subject works well on its own, even
though it was initially tied to a television documentary series.
Mayer,
Hans E., Bibliographie zur
Geschichte der Kreuzzüge, Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung,
1960; 2nd edition, 1965
Mayer,
Hans E., Geschichte der
Kreuzzüge, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1965; as The
Crusades, translated by John Gillingham, London: Oxford University
Press, 1972, 2nd edition, Oxford and New York: Oxford University
Press, 1988
Two
of Mayer’s many important contributions to the study of the crusades.
Pernoud,
Régine, Les Croisés,
Paris: Hachette, 1959; as The
Crusaders, translated by Enid Grant, Edinburgh: Oliver and
Boyd, 1963
A
unique look at the types of people involved in the crusades and
such considerations as their organization and warfare methods.
Richard,
Jean,
