Note: List of entries is preliminary and may change prior to publication.
E
East
Africa
Travel
Writing
This
list includes the major published works of exploration literature.
A selection of some shorter pieces of writing, mainly from Royal
Geographical Society periodicals, is also included. This can do
no more than exemplify the enormous number of articles about activities
in East Africa in 19th-century geographical, missionary, and literary
periodicals such as Ocean Highways, The Church Missionary Intelligencer, Blackwood’s, Macmillan’s,
etc.
Arkell-Hardwick,
A., An Ivory Trader in North
Kenia, 1903
Ashe,
Robert P., Two Kings of
Uganda, 1889; reprinted, 1970
Baker,
Samuel White, The Albert
N’yanza: Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile
Sources, 2 vols, 1866
Baker,
Samuel White, Ismailïa:
A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression
of the Slave Trade, 2 vols, 1874
Baumann,
Oscar, Durch Massailand
zur Nilquelle, 1894
Beardall,
William, “Exploration of the Rufiji River”, Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society, new series, 3 (1881): 641[-]56
Becker,
Jérôme, La Vie en Afrique,
2 vols, 1887
Bell,
W.D.M., The Wanderings of
an Elephant Hunter, 1923
Bellville,
Alfred, “Journey to Magila, Borders of Usambara Country”, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 20 (1876): 74[-]78
Boteler,
Thomas, Narrative of a Voyage
of Discovery to Africa and Arabia, 2 vols, 1835
Broyon-Mirambo,
P., “Description of Unyamwesi”, Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society, 22 (1878): 28[-]37
Burton,
Richard F., First Footsteps
in East Africa; or, An Exploration of Harar, 1856
Burton,
Richard F., The Lake Regions
of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, 2 vols, 1860
Burton,
Richard F., Zanzibar: City,
Island and Coast, 2 vols, 1872
Cameron,
Verney Lovett, Across Africa,
2 vols, 1877
Casati,
Gaetano, Dieci anni in Equatoria,
e ritorno con Emin Pascia, 2 vols, 1891; as Ten
Years in Equatoria, and the Return with Emin Pasha, translated
by Mrs. J. Randolph Clay, 2 vols, 1891
Chaillé
Long, Charles, Central Africa:
Naked Truths of Naked People, 1876; reprinted, 1968
On
the Egyptian staff, he reached Buganda from the north.
Chippindall,
W.W., “Journey beyond the Cataracts of the Upper Nile towards
the Albert Nyanza”, Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society, 20 (1876): 67[-]69
Churchill,
Winston, My African Journey,
1908
Cooley,
William Desborough, “The Geography of Nyassi”, Journal
of the Royal Geographical Society, 15 (1845): 185[-]235
Gives
details of the journey of Khamis bin Othman and his slave, Nasib,
towards Lake Tanganyika.
Cotterill,
H.B., “On the Nyassa and Journey to Zanzibar”, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 22 (1878): 233[-]51
Decken,
Carl Claus von der, Reisen
in Ost-Afrika in den Jahren 1859 bis 1865, 4 vols, 1869[-]79
Dodgshun,
Arthur W., From Zanzibar
to Ujiji: The Journal of Arthur W. Dodgshun, 1877[-]1879,
edited by Norman Robert Bennett,
1969
Drummond,
Henry, Tropical Africa,
1888
A
journey to Lake Malawi.
Elton,
J. Frederic, Travels and
Researches among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern and Central
Africa, edited and completed by H.B. Cotterill, 1879; reprinted,
1968
Emery,
James B., “A Short Account of Mombas and the Neighbouring Coast
of Africa”, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society,
3 (1833): 280[-]83
Emin
Pasha, Die Tagebücher von
Dr Emin Pascha, edited by Franz Stuhlmann, 6 vols, 1916[-]27
Emin’s
journeys from 1876 to 1890. Translations by Sir John Gray on sections
bearing on Uganda appeared in the Uganda
Journal in 13 parts from vol. 25 (1961) to vol. 32 (1968).
Farler,
J.P., “Usambara Country”, Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society, new series, 1 (1879): 81[-]94
Faulkner,
Henry, Elephant Haunts,
Being a Sportsman’s Narrative of the Search for Doctor Livingstone,
with Scenes of Elephant, Buffalo and Hippopotamus Hunting,
1868; reprinted, 1984
Fischer,
G.A., Das Massai-Land,
1885
Fitzgerald,
William Walter Augustine, Travels
in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar
and Pemba, 1898; reprinted, 1984
Frere,
H. Bartle, “Zanzibar and the East Coast of Africa”, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 17 (1873): 343[-]54
Gamitto,
A.C.P., O Muata Cazembe,
1854; as King Kazembe, translated by Ian Cunnison,
2 vols, 1960
Gamitto
and Monteiro reached the Cazembe’s kingdom from the Zambezi in
the early 1830s.
Gordon,
Charles G., Colonel Gordon
in Central Africa, 1874[-]1879, edited by George Birkbeck
Hill, 1881; reprinted, 1969
Gordon,
Charles G. and Romolo Gessi, “The Khedive’s Expedition up the
White Nile”, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society,
20 (1876): 50[-]54; 21 (1877): 48[-]630
Grant,
James Augustus, A Walk across
Africa; or, Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal, 1864
Grant,
James Augustus, “Summary of Observations … Made by the Speke and
Grant Expedition”, Journal
of the Royal Geographical Society, 42 (1872): 243[-]342
Grogan,
Ewart S. and Arthur H. Sharp, From
the Cape to Cairo, 1900
Guillain,
Charles (editor), Documents
sur l’histoire, la gèographie et le commerce de l’Afrique orientale,
3 vols, 1856
Admiral
Guillain’s voyages in East African waters took place in the 1840s.
Gunther,
John, Inside Africa,
1955
Hannington,
James, The Last Journals
of Bishop Hannington, edited by E.C. Dawson, 1888
The
bishop was assassinated on his way to Buganda.
Höhnel,
Ludwig, Ritter von, Discovery
of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie, translated by Nancy Bell, 2
vols, 1894
Holmwood,
Frederic, “Kingani River, East Africa,”
Journal of the Royal
Geographical Society, 47 (1877): 253[-]67
Hore,
Annie B., To Lake Tanganyika
in a Bath Chair, 1886
Hore,
Edward Coode, Tanganyika:
Eleven Years in Central Africa, 1892
Huntingford,
G.W.B., The Periplus of
the Erythraean Sea, 1980
This
is a short mariner’s guide to places on the East African coast
originally in Greek and dating from c.100
ad. The author is unknown.
Huxley,
Julian, Africa View,
1931
Ibn
Battuta, Travels of Ibn
Batutta ad 1325[-]1354, translated by H.A.R.
Gibb, vol. 2, 1962
This
volume in the Hakluyt Society edition covers the visit to East
Africa.
Jephson,
A.J. Mounteney, Emin Pasha
and the Rebellion at the Equator, 1890
Jephson,
A.J. Mounteney, The Diary
of A.J. Mounteney Jephson: Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887[-]1889,
edited by Dorothy Middleton,
1969
Johnson,
William P., “Seven Years’ Travels East of Nyassa,” Proceedings of the Royal
Geographical Society, new series, 6 (1884): 512[-]33
Johnston,
Harry Hamilton, The Kilima[-]Njaro
Expedition: A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial
Africa, 1886; reprinted, 1968
Kirk,
John, “Notes on Two Expeditions up the Rovuma,” Journal
of the Royal Geographical Society, 35
(1865): 154[-]69
Kirk,
John, “Visit to the Coast of Somali Land”, Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society, 17 (1873): 340[-]43
Kirk,
John, “Examination of the Lufiji River Delta”, Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society, 18 (1874): 74[-]76
Krapf,
J. Lewis, Travels, Researches
and Missionary Labours during an Eighteen Years’ Residence in
Eastern Africa, 1860
Lancaster,
James, “A Voyage with Three Tall Ships … to the Iles of Comoro
and Zanzibar on the Backeside of Africa” in The
Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of
the English Nation, by Richard Hakluyt, 3 vols, 1598[-]1600;
reprinted in 12 vols, 1903[-]05: vol. 6, 392[-]95
The Lands of Cazembe: Lacerda’s Journey to
Cazembe in 1798, translated by R.F. Burton, 1873
Last,
J.T., “Journey into the Nguru Country”, Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society, new series, 4 (1882): 148[-]57
Laws,
Robert, “Journey along Part of the Western Side of Nyassa”, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society,
new series, 1 (1879): 305[-]20
Livingstone,
David, Missionary Travels
and Researches in South Africa, 1857
Livingstone,
David, The Last Journals
of David Livingstone, edited by Horace Waller, 2 vols, 1874;
reprinted, 1970
Livingstone,
David, David Livingstone
and the Rovuma, edited by George Shepperson, 1965
Extracts
from letters and journals.
Livingstone,
David and Charles Livingstone, Narrative
of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, 1865;
reprinted, 1971
Lugard,
Frederick Dealtry, The Rise
of Our East African Empire, 2 vols, 1893; reprinted, 1968
Macdonald,
J.R.L., Soldiering and Surveying
in British East Africa, 1891[-]1894, 1897; reprinted, 1973
Mackay,
Alexander M., “Boat Voyage along the Western Shores of Victoria
Nyanza”, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society,
new series, 6 (1884): 273[-]83
Maples,
Chauncy, “Masasi and Rovuma District, East Africa”, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, new series, 2 (1880):
337[-]52
Maples,
Chauncy, “Makua Land”, Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society, new series, 4 (1882): 79[-]86
M’Queen,
James, “The Visit of Lief bin Said to the Great African Lake,”
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 15 (1845): 371[-]74
Mullens,
J., “A New Route to Central Africa,” Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society, 21 (1877): 233[-]47
Neumann,
Arthur H., Elephant-Hunting
in East Equatorial Africa, 1898
New,
Charles and R. Bushell, “Ascent of Kilima Njaro,” Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 16 (1872): 167[-]68
New,
Charles, Life, Wanderings
and Labours in Eastern Africa, 1873; reprinted, 1971
Osgood,
Joseph Barlow Felt, Notes
of Travel; or, Recollections of Majunga, Zanzibar, Muscat, Aden,
Mocha, and Other Eastern Ports, 1854
Owen,
W.F.W., Narrative of Voyages
to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia and Madagascar, 2
vols, 1833; reprinted, 1968
Patterson,
J.H., The Man-eaters of
Tsavo and Other East African Adventures, 1907
Perham,
Margery, East African Journey:
Kenya and Tanganyika, 1929[-]30, 1976
Peters,
Carl, New Light on Dark
Africa, translated by H.W. Dulcken, 1891
Peters’s
travels to Uganda to try to bring it under German control. His
other works remain in German; a collected edition was published
in 1943[-]44.
Pringle,
Mrs M.A., Towards the Mountains
of the Moon: A Journey in East Africa, 1884
Prior,
James, Voyage along the
Eastern Coast of Africa, 1819
Roosevelt,
Theodore, African Game Trails, 1910
Salt,
Henry, A Voyage to Abyssinia
and Travels to the Interior of That Country, 1814; reprinted,
1967
Sheldon,
May French, Sultan to Sultan:
Adventures among the Masai and Other Tribes of East Africa, 1892
Smee,
Thomas and L. Hardy, “Observations during a Voyage of Research
on the East Coast of Africa”, Transactions
of the Bombay Geographical Society, 6 (1841[-]44): 23[-]61
The
visit was made in 1811.
Southon,
Ebenezer J., “Notes on a Journey through Northern Ugogo”, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, new series, 3 (1881):
547[-]53
Speke,
John Hanning, Journal of
the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, 1863
Speke,
John Hanning, What Led to
the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, 1864; reprinted,
1967
Stanley,
Henry M., How I Found Livingstone,
1872
Stanley,
Henry M., Through the Dark
Continent, 2 vols, 1878; reprinted, 1969
Stanley,
Henry M., In Darkest Africa;
or, The Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin,
2 vols, 1890
Stanley,
Henry M., The Exploration
Diaries of H.M. Stanley, edited by Richard Stanley and Alan
Neame, 1961
Stanley,
Henry M., Stanley’s Despatches
to the New York Herald,
1871[-]1872, 1874[-]1877, edited by Norman R. Bennett, 1970
Stewart,
James, “Observations on the Western Side of Lake Nyassa and the
Country … between Nyassa and Tanganyika”,
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, new series,
2 (1880): 428[-]31
Stewart,
James, “Survey of Eastern Coast of Nyassa”, Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society, new series, 5 (1883): 689[-]92
Swann,
Alfred J., Fighting the
Slave Hunters in Central Africa, 1910
Thomson,
Joseph, To the Central African
Lakes and Back, 2 vols, 1881
Thomson,
Joseph, “Basin of the River Rovuma”, Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society, new series, 4 (1882): 65[-]79
Thomson,
Joseph, Through Masai Land,
1885; revised edition, 1887; reprinted, 1968
Thornton,
Richard, “Expedition to Kilimanjaro”, Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society, 6 (1862): 47[-]51
Tippu
Tip, Maisha ya Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi,
translated by W.H. Whiteley, 1959
Hamed
bin Muhammed (Tippu Tip) left an autobiography describing his
travels in East Africa, which began in the 1850s and finished
in 1890.
Waugh,
Evelyn, Remote People,
1931
Waugh,
Evelyn, The Diaries of Evelyn
Waugh, edited by Michael Davie, 1976
Wilson,
C.T. and R.W. Felkin, Uganda
and the Egyptian Soudan, 2 vols, 1882
Windsor,
Edward, Duke of, Sport and
Travel in East Africa … Compiled from the Private Diaries of H.R.H.
the Prince of Wales, edited by Patrick R. Chalmers, 1934
Wissmann,
Hermann von, My Second Journey
through Equatorial Africa, from the Congo to the Zambesi, in the
Years 1886 and 1887, translated by Minna J.A. Bergmann, 1891
Young,
E.D. and Horace Waller, The
Search after Livingstone, 1868
Young,
E.D. and Horace Waller, Nyassa:
A Journal of Adventures, 1877
Further Reading
Axelson,
Eric, The Portuguese in
South-East Africa, 1488[-]1600, Johannesburg: Struik, 1973
Axelson,
Eric, The Portuguese in
South-East Africa, 1600[-]1700, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand
University Press, 1960
Brantlinger,
Patrick, Rule of Darkness:
British Literature and Imperialism, 1830[-]1914, Ithaca, New
York: Cornell University Press, 1988: especially chapter 6
Bridges,
R.C., “Speke and the Royal Geographical Society”, Uganda Journal, 26 (1962): 23[-]43
Bridges,
R.C., introduction to Travels,
Researches and Missionary Labours, by J. Lewis Krapf, London:
Cass, 1968 (reprint of the 1860 edition)
The
only substantial biography of Krapf in English.
Bridges,
R.C., “John Hanning Speke: Negotiating a Way to the Nile” in Africa and Its Explorers, edited by Robert
I. Rotberg, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,
1970
Bridges,
R.C., “The Historical Role of British Explorers in East Africa”,
Terrae Incognitae, 14 (1982): 1[-]21
Bridges,
R.C., “Nineteenth-Century East African Travel Records with an
Appendix on ‘Armchair Geographers’ and Cartography”, Paideuma, 33 (1987): 179[-]96
Bridges,
R.C., “East Africa and the Source of the Nile, 1822[-]1888” in
The Times Atlas of World Exploration, edited
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, London: Times Books, and New York:
HarperCollins, 1991
Bridges,
R.C., “Explorers’ Texts and the Problem of Reactions by Non-Literate
Peoples”, Studies in Travel Writing, 2 (1998): 65[-]84
Bridges,
R.C., “Towards the Prelude to the Partition of East Africa” in
Imperialism, Decolonization and Africa: Studies
Presented to John Hargreaves, edited by R.C. Bridges, foreword
by C. Duncan Rice, London: Macmillan, and New York: St Martin’s
Press, 2000
The
historical significance of geographical and missionary travellers
in East Africa.
Cairns,
H. Alan C., Prelude to Imperialism:
British Reactions to Central African Society, London: Routledge
and Kegan Paul, 1965
Discusses
racial prejudices of travellers in East and Central Africa.
Casada,
James A., “The Imperialism of Exploration: British Explorers and
East Africa, 1856[-]1890” (thesis), Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt
University, 1972
Coupland,
Reginald, The Exploitation
of East Africa, 1856[-]1890: The Slave Trade and the Scramble,
London: Faber, 1939
Chapter
6 deals with exploration.
Duyvendak,
J.J.L., China’s Discovery
of Africa, London: Probsthain, 1949
Filesi,
Teobaldi, China and Africa
in the Middle Ages, translated by David L. Morison, London:
Cass, 1972
Hall,
Richard, Stanley: An Adventurer
Explored, London: Collins, 1974; Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1975
Hall,
Richard, Empires of the
Monsoon: A History of the Indian Ocean and Its Invaders, London:
HarperCollins, 1996
Jeal,
Tim, Livingstone, London: Heinemann, and New
York: Putnam, 1973
The
fullest of modern biographies, but here as elsewhere there is
no really satisfactory account of Livingstone as a traveller.
McLynn,
Frank, Stanley: The Making
of an African Explorer, London: Constable, 1989; Chelsea,
Michigan: Scarborough House, 1990
McLynn,
Frank, Stanley: Sorcerer’s
Apprentice, London: Constable, 1991
McLynn,
Frank, Hearts of Darkness:
The European Exploration of Africa, London: Hutchinson, 1992;
New York: Carroll and Graf, 1993
Mostly
on East African travellers, with many insights but also a good
many mistakes.
Maitland,
Alexander, Speke, London:
Constable 1971
Moorehead,
Alan, The White Nile, London:
Hamish Hamilton, and New York: Harper, 1960; revised edition,
1971
The
best-known popular account of the exploration of East Africa.
Rotberg,
Robert I. (editor), Africa
and Its Explorers: Motives, Methods, and Impact, Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1970
This
includes essays on Livingstone by Norman Bennett, on Burton by
Caroline Oliver, on Speke by Roy Bridges (see above), on Baker
by Robert Collins, on Stanley by Eric Halladay, on Cameron by
James Hooker and on Thomson by the editor.
Rotberg,
Robert I., Joseph Thomson
and the Exploration of Africa, London: Chatto and Windus,
and New York: Oxford University Press, 1971
Simpson,
Donald, Dark Companions:
The African Contribution to the European Exploration of East Africa,
London: Elek, 1975; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1976
Youngs,
Tim, Travellers in Africa:
British Travelogues, 1850[-]1900, Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 1994
This
is concerned principally with East African travellers whose published
texts are analysed in terms of “structures of attitude and reference.”
East India Company: British
Travel
Writing
Beeckman,
Daniel, A Voyage to and
from the Island of Borneo, in the East Indies, 1718; with
an introduction by Chin Yoon Fong, 1973
Account
by the joint master of a Company ship sent to reopen the pepper
trade with southern Borneo.
Best,
Thomas et al., The Voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies, 1612[-]14, edited by
William Foster, 1934
Journal
extracts and other documents relating to the voyage in the course
of which Best’s victorious encounter with the Portuguese at Surat
put the Company’s trading interests in India on a secure footing.
Blakiston,
John, Twelve Years’ Military
Adventure in Three Quarters of the Globe; or, Memoirs of an Officer
Who Served in the Armies of His Majesty and of the East India
Company, between the Years 1802 and 1814, in Which Are Contained
the Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in India, and His Last
in Spain and the South of France, 2 vols, 1829
Adventures
of a Company soldier.
Cocks,
Richard, Diary of Richard
Cocks, Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan 1615[-]22,
with Correspondence, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson, 2 vols,
1883
Diary
of the head of the failed English factory at Hirado; includes
correspondence with the Company.
Conolly,
Arthur, Journey to the North of India, Overland through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistan, 2 vols, 1834
Travels (1829[-]30) of a captain in the East India
Company service and player in the Great Game.
Dalrymple, Alexander,
Journal of the Ship London,
Captain Walter Hues, along the North Coast of Magindanao, October,
1764, 1781
Dalrymple, Alexander,
Journal of the Schooner
Cuddalore through the Strait of Sapy, and on the South Coast of
Man[-]e[-]rye, in February, March, and April 1761, 1793
Dalrymple joined the Company in 1752 and, on its behalf, explored trade
possibilities and routes in South Asia.
Daniell,
Thomas and William Daniell, A
Picturesque Voyage to India, by Way of China, 1810
Artist
who travelled to India with the reluctant permission of the Company
together with his nephew William Daniell; during their stay there
(1786[-]94) the pair produced some of the most famous picturesque
images of the country.
D’Oyly,
Charles, Sketches on the
New Road in a Journey from Calcutta to Eyah, 1830
A
talented amateur artist, D’Oyly (1781[-]1845) spent 40 years in
the Company’s service; he also encouraged other artists.
Forster,
George, A Journey from Bengal
to England, through the Northern Part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan,
and Persia and into Russia, by the Caspian Sea, 1798; reprinted,
2 vols, 1987
East
India Company man opts for the overland route home.
Foster, William (editor), Early Travels in India, 1583[-]1619, 1921; reprinted, 1975
Of the seven accounts included, those of William
Hawkins and William Finch relate to the Company’s 1607 embassy
to the Great Mogul that led to the setting up of the Company’s
first factory at Surat (1612), and Edward Terry was a chaplain
with Roe’s embassy (1615[-]19).
Grose,
John Henry, A Voyage to
the East Indies, 1757; 2nd edition, 2 vols, 1766; 3rd edition,
1772
Well-received
account by a Company civil servant who went to Bombay in 1750.
The second edition has etchings by the author’s elder brother,
the antiquarian Francis Grose.
Hedges,
William, The Diary of William
Hedges Esq. … during His Agency in Bengal; as well as on His Voyage
out and Return Overland (1681[-]1687), 3 vols, 1887[-]89
A
troubled tenure of office as the Company’s man at Hooghly brought
Hedges into conflict with, among others, Job Charnock, the founder
(in 1690) of Calcutta as a British factory, and Thomas Pitt, later
(1698[-]1709) the Company’s forceful governor at Madras (Chennai).
Hodges,
William, Select Views in
India, Drawn on the Spot in the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 and 1783,
1786[-]88
Famous
portfolio of paintings with accompanying text by a professional
painter who worked in India under the patronage of Warren Hastings.
Hunter,
William, A Concise Account
of the Kingdom of Pegu, Its Climate, Produce, Trade and Government:
The Manners and Customs of Its Inhabitants, Interspersed with
Remarks Moral and Political, 1785
Hunter
took the opportunity of being stranded in burma to compile an
account of the kingdom with a view to encouraging Company trade
with the region.
Lal,
Mohan, Journal of a Tour through the Panjab, Afghanistan, Turkistan and Khorasan
and Part of Persia in Company with Lieut. Barnes and Dr Gerard,
1834
Lal,
Mohan, Travels in the Panjab, Afghanistan and Turkistan, 1846
Kashmiri
secretary to Alexander Burnes and one of the “pundits” who spied
out the north of the sub-continent for the East India Company.
Malcolm,
John, Sketches of Persia,
from the Journals of a Traveller in the East,
2 vols (published anonymously), 1827; new edition (published
as John Malcolm) 1 vol., 1845
The
son of an Eskdale hill farmer, who learned Persian and made his
career in the Indian Army, Malcolm went on three missions to Iran
(1800, 1806, 1810), travelling from Bombay to Bushire and on to
Shiraz and Tehran as the East India Company’s representative to
the court of Fath Ali Shah; he was popular with the Persians,
and his Sketches are
well observed and sympathetic. Malcolm enjoyed the full support
of the East India Company in researching and writing his History
of Persia, in which
he wrote that had he not first been a traveller, he would not
have become a historian. His missions to Iran were cut short by
the arrival of rival missions sent by the London Foreign Office
under Harford Jones Brydges and Gore Ouseley, but not before he
had coordinated several surveys of little-known parts of Iran.
Markham,
Clements R. (editor), Narratives
of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of
Thomas Manning to Lhasa, 1876
East
India Company men in Tibet: the first European to visit Tibet,
Bogle was sent on an embassy to the Panchen Lama in 1774; Manning,
a doctor, made his daring solo expedition in 1811[-]12.
Markham,
Clements R. (editor), The
Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt, to the East Indies …,
1877; as The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster to Brazil and the East Indies, 1591[-]1603,
edited by William Foster, 1940
Lancaster
commanded the very first fleet dispatched to the East by the fledgling
Company in 1601[-]03 and played an important role in its affairs
until his death in 1618.
Masson,
Charles, Narrative of Various
Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan and the Panjab, Including
a Residence in Those Countries from 1826 to 1838, 3 vols,
1842; reprinted, with an introduction by Gavin Hambly, 1974
Adventures
of an East India Company army deserter turned intelligence agent.
Methwold,
William, “Relations of the Kingdome of Golchonda and Other Neighbouring
Nations within the Gulfe of Bengala” in Purchas
His Pilgrimes, by Samuel Purchas, 4th edition, 1626; in Relations of Golconda in the Early Seventeenth
Century, edited by W.H. Moreland, 1931
Entering
the Company’s service in 1615, Methwold rose to the equivalent
of a director’s position, amassing huge wealth en route.
Middleton,
Henry, The Voyage of Sir
Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands, Being the Second
Voyage Set Forth by the Governor and Company of Merchants of London
Trading into the East-Indies, edited by Bolton Corney, 1855;
new edition as The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas 1604[-]1606, edited
by William Foster, 1943
From
the very rare 1606 publication entitled The
laste East-Indian voyage … Middleton
also sailed on the Company’s first voyage under Lancaster and
commanded the sixth voyage in 1610.
Moorcroft,
William and George Trebeck, Travels
in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab; in Ladakh,
and Kashmir; in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz and Bokhara … from 1819
to 1825, edited by Horace Hayman Wilson, 2 vols, 1841; reprinted,
with an introduction by G.J. Adler, 1979
Moorcroft
was a veterinary surgeon with the East India Company.
Purchas,
Samuel, Purchas His Pilgrimes,
4 vols, 1625
Permitted
access to the Company’s journals, Purchas included a number of
accounts of eastern voyages undertaken under its auspices in the
early years, adding to their number with subsequent editions.
Roe,
Thomas, The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court
of the Great Mogul, 1615[-]1619, as Narrated in His Journal and
Correspondence, edited by William Foster, 2 vols, 1899; revised
edition, as The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to India, 1615[-]19,
1926
Roe’s
successful embassy to the Mogul emperor was financed by the Company.
Strachan,
Michael and Boies Penrose (editors), The
East India Company Journals of Captain William Keeling and Master
Thomas Bonner, 1615[-]1617, 1971
Thomson,
John Turnbull, Some Glimpses
into Life in the Far East, 1864; as Glimpses
into Life in Malayan Lands, edited and with an introduction
by John Hall-Jones, 1984
Critical
of Company administration in Singapore.
Turner,
Samuel, An Account of an
Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet, 1800; reprinted,
1971
An
embassy led by a captain in the East India Company army in 1783.
Until publication of Bogle’s and Manning’s narratives this was
the only published account of Tibet in English.
Williamson,
Thomas, The European in
India …, 1813
A
collection of engravings from drawings by Sir Charles D’Oyly (see
above).
Further
Reading
Anderson,
G. and M. Subedar, The Expansion
of British India (1818[-]1858), vol. 1:
The Last Days of the Company, London: Bell, and New York:
Macmillan, 1918; reprinted, New Delhi: Uppal, 1987
Commentary
and excerpts from original sources that trace the events connected
with the Mahratta Wars of 1818 in India through the Mutiny of
1857. Intended as a textbook to be used by Indian students interested
in the development of Indian policy during the early 19th century.
Archer,
Mildred and Ronald Lightbown, India
Observed: India as Viewed by British Artists, 1760[-]1860,
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982
Ballhatchet,
Kenneth and John Harrison (editors), East
India Company Studies: Papers Presented to Professor Sir Cyril
Phillips, Hong Kong: Asian Research, 1986
Bayly,
C.A., Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the
World, 1780[-]1830, London and New York: Longman, 1989
Bayly,
C.A. (editor), The Raj: India and the British, 1600[-]1947, London: National Portrait
Gallery, 1990
Cain,
P.J. and A.G. Hopkins, British
Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion, 1688[-]1914, London
and New York: Longman, 1993
Carey,
W.H., The Good Old Days
of Honorable John Company, Being Curious Reminiscences Illustrating
Manners and Customs of the British in India during the Rule of
the East India Company, from 1600 to 1858, 3 vols, Simla:
Argus Press, 1882[-]87; reprinted, Calcutta: Ridhi, 1980
First-person
“narratives”, compiled from newspaper accounts, of “prominent
events” that were associated with the East India Company which
took place in India, primarily Calcutta, during the years 1600
to 1858.
Chatterton,
E. Keble, The Old East Indiamen,
London: Laurie, 1914
Chaudhuri,
K.N., The English East India
Company: The Study of an Early Joint-Stock Company, 1600[-]1640,
London: Cass, and New York: Reprints of Economic Classics,
1965
Chaudhuri,
K.N., The Trading World
of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660[-]1760, Cambridge
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978
Chaudhuri,
K.N., Trade and Civilisation
in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam
to 1750, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press,
1985
Chaudhuri’s
books focus on statistical history of the firm’s trading, especially
the early period through 1750.
Cotton,
E., East Indiamen: The East India Company’s Maritime
Service, edited by C. Fawcett, London: Batchworth Press, 1949
Davis,
Ralph, The Rise of the English
Shipping Industry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,
London: Macmillan, and New York: St Martin’s Press, 1962
Dundas,
Henry (Viscount Melville) and Richard Wellesley, Two Views of British India: The Private Correspondence of Mr Dundas and
Lord Wellesley, 1798[-]1801, edited by Edward Ingram, Bath:
Adams and Dart, 1970
Edney,
Matthew H., Mapping an Empire:
The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765[-]1843,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997
A
chronological study of cartography in British India, examining
practice and ideology, as well as the East India Company’s role
in attempting to survey India accurately. Makes extensive use
of archival materials taken from the East India Company records.
Ekelund,
Robert B., Jr, Politicized
Economies: Monarchy, Monopoly, and Mercantilism, College Station:
Texas A&M University Press, 1997
Fawcett,
Charles, The English Factories
in India, new series, 4 vols, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936[-]55
Continuation
of Foster’s work on the Company’s trading establishments.
Foster,
William et al. (editors),
Letters Received by the East India Company
from Its Servants in the East, 6 vols, London: Sampson Low
Marston, 1896[-]1902
Foster,
William, The English Factories
in India, 1618[-]1669, 13 vols, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906[-]27
Invaluable
collection of source material on the Company. The series was continued
by Fawcett (see above).
Gardner,
Brian, The East India Company:
A History, London: Hart-Davis, 1971; New York: McCall,
1972
Hossain,
Hameeda, The Company Weavers
of Bengal: The East India Company and
the Organization of Textile Production in Bengal, 1750[-]1813, Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 1988
Huq,
Mazharul, The East India
Company’s Land Policy and Commerce in Bengal, 1698[-]1784, Dacca: Asiatic Society of Pakistan, 1964
Keay,
John, The Honourable Company:
A History of the English East India Company, London: HarperCollins,
1991; New York: Macmillan, 1994
A
chronological history of the firm, including maps and illustrations,
that seeks to trace its “multifarious activities”; presented as
a corrective to the commonly held notion of the firm as precursor
to the Raj, it emphasizes instead the merchant adventurers who
“gambled” their way across “bizarre locations” in search of commercial
success.
Kopf,
David, British Orientalism
and the Bengal Renaissance: The Dynamics of Indian Modernization,
1773[-]1835, Berkeley: University of California Press,
1969
Lawson,
Philip, The East India Company:
A History, London and New York: Longman, 1993
A
“compact” history of the firm emphasizing how its trade policy
affected British society, especially during the 18th and early
19th centuries. Offers summary statements of the critical debates
concerning the firm’s history and actions.
Marshall,
P.J., Bengal, the British
Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740[-]1828, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1987 (The New Cambridge History of India, vol.
2, part 2)
Covers
the period in which the Company became part of the political scene
in Moghul India.
Misra,
B.B., The Central Administration of the East India
Company, 1773[-]1834, Manchester: Manchester University Press,
1959
Mootham,
Orby, The East India Company’s
Sadar Courts, 1801[-]1834,
Bombay: Tripathi, 1983
Morse,
Hosea Ballou, The Chronicles
of the East India Company: Trading to China, 1635[-]1834,
5 vols, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926[-]29
Mui,
Hoh-cheung and Lorna H. Mui,
The Management of Monopoly: A Study of the English East India
Company’s Conduct of Its Tea Trade, 1784[-]1833, Vancouver:
University of British Columbia Press, 1984
Mukherjee,
Ramkrishna, The Rise and
Fall of the East India Company: A Sociological Appraisal,
revised edition, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974
Parkinson,
C. Northcote, Trade in the
Eastern Seas, 1793[-]1813, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1937; New York: Kelley, 1966
Philips,
C.H., The East India Company,
1784[-]1834, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1940;
2nd edition, 1961
Singh,
Narayan Prasad, The East
India Company’s Monopoly Industries in Bihar, with Particular
Reference to Opium and Saltpetre, 1773[-]1833, Muzaffarpur,
Bihar: Sarvodaya Vangmaya, 1980
Spear,
T.G.P., The Nabobs: A Study
of the Social Life of the English in Eighteenth Century India,
London: Oxford University Press, 1932; revised edition, 1963
Sutherland,
Lucy S., The East India
Company in Eighteenth Century Politics,
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952; Westport, Connecticut: Hyperion
Press, 1979
Sutton,
Jean, Lords of the East: The East India Company and
Its Ships, London: Conway Maritime Press, 1981
Thornton,
Edward, A Summary of the
History of the East India Company from the Grant of Their First
Charter by Queen Elizabeth to the Present Period, London:
Ridgway, 1833
Watson,
Ian Bruce, Foundation for
Empire: English Private Trade in India, 1659[-]1760,
New Delhi: Vikas, 1980
Wilbur,
Marguerite Eyer, The East
India Company and the British Empire in the Far East,
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1945
Wild,
Antony, The East India Company:
Trade and Conquest from 1600, London: HarperCollins, 1999;
New York: Lyons Press, 2000
A
publication from the re-established East India Company that traces
its history. The author has also written other studies of specific
commodities, which were traded by the Company, such as St Helena
coffee.
East India Company: Dutch
Travel Writing
Anonymous, Ongeluckige Voyagie van’t Schip Batavia [Disastrous Voyage of the
Ship Batavia], 1647; a summary appears in John Harris’s Collection of Voyages, 1705
Bontekoe, Willem Ysbrantsz, Iovrnael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe
vande Oost-Indische reyse van Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe van Hoorn,
1646
Graaff, Nicolaus de, Reisen van Nicolaus de Graaff, na de vier gedeeltens
des Werelds, als Asia, Africa, America en Europa … [Journey
of Nicolaus de Graaff, around the Four Parts of the World, Asia,
Africa, America and Europe …, 1701; 2nd edition, enlarged, as
Reysen, 1704; translated as Voyages
de Nicolas de Graaf aux Indes Orientales et en d’autres lieux
de l’Asie; avec une relation curieuse de la ville de Batavia,
et des moeurs & du commerce des Hollandois établis dans les
Indes, 1719
Hartgers, Joost, Oost-Indische voyagien door dien begin en voortgangh
van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische
compagnie, 1648
Janssonius, Johannes, Begin ende Voortgangh van de Vereenigde Neederlandtsche
Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie, 1644; as A Collection of Voyages Undertaken by the Dutch
East India Company, 1703
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, Itinerario, 1595[-]96; as Jan Huighen van Linschoten his Discours of
Voyages into ye Easte West Indies, 1598
Lodewycksz, Willem, D’ Eerste boeck. Historie van Indien, waer
inne verhaelt is de avontueren die de hollandtche schepen [The
First Book. History of the Indies, Relating the Adventures of
the Dutch Ships], 1598
Montanus, Arnoldus, Gedenkwaerdige Gesantschappen der Oost-Indische
Maetschappy … aen de Kaisaren van Japan [Atlas Japanensis,
being Remarkable Addresses by Way of Embassy from the East India
Company to the Emperor of Japan], 1669
Nieuhof, Johan, Het Gezantschap der Neêrlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den Grooten
Tatarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China [An
Embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to
the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China], 1665
Noort, Olivier van, Beschryvinghe vande voyagie om den gehelen
werelt cloot [Description of the Voyage around the Entire
Globe], 1602
Saeghman, Gillis Joosten, Verscheyde Oost-Indische Voyagien [Several
East Indian Voyages], 1663
Schouten, Wouter, Oost-Indische Voyagie [East Indian Voyage],
1676
Stavorinus, J.S., Reize van Zeeland over de Kaap de Goede Hoop,
naar Batavia, Bantam, Bengalen enz. … door den heer J.S. Stavorinus,
4 vols, 1793; as Voyages
to the East Indies; By the Late John Splinter Stavorinus,
1798
Valentijn, François, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, 1724[-]26; the chapters on Ceylon
(Sri Lanka) as François
Valentijn’s Description of Ceylon, edited by Sinnappah Arasaratnam,
1978; the section on the Cape of Good Hope as Description
of the Cape of Good Hope with the Matters Concerning It, translated
by Rowland Raven-Hart, edited by P. Serton et
al., 1971[-]73
Veer, Gerrit de, Waerachtige Beschryvinghe, 1598; as True and Perfect Description of Three Voyages,
1609
Further Reading
Barend-van Haeften, Marijke, Oost-Indië gespiegeld: Nicolaus de Graaf, een
schrijvend chirurgijn in dienst van de VOC [East India Mirrored:
Nicolaus de Graaf, A Writer and Ship’s Surgeon in the Service
of the East India Company], Zutphen: Walburg, 1992
Beekman, E.M., Troubled Pleasures: Dutch Colonial Literature from the East Indies, 1600[-]1950,
Oxford: Clarendon Press, and New York: Oxford University Press,
1996
Boxer, C.R., Dutch Seaborne Empire 1600[-]1800, London: Hutchinson, 1965; New
York: Knopf, 1970
Boxer, C.R., Isaac Commelin’s ‘Begin ende voortgangh’: Introduction to the Facsimile
Edition, Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1970
Bradley, Peter T., The Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the
South Sea, 1598[-]1701,
London: Macmillan, and New York: St Martin’s Press, 1989
Coolhaas, W.Ph., A Critical Survey of Studies on Dutch Colonial
History, 2nd edition, revised by G.J. Schutte, The Hague:
Nijhoff, 1980
Friis, Herman R., The Pacific Basin: A History of Its Geographical
Exploration, New York: American Geographical Society, 1967
Gelder, Roelof van, Het Oost-Indische avontuur: Duitsers in dienst
van de VOC (1600[-]1800) [The East Indian Adventure: Germans
in the Service of the Dutch East India Company], Nijmegen: SUN,
1997
Jacobs, Els M., In Pursuit of Pepper and Tea: The Story of the Dutch East India Company,
Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 1991
Krisch, P., “Deutsche Reiseberichten
des 17. Jahrhunderts als Quelle für die Niederländische Ostindienfahrt”
[17th-century German Travel Accounts as a Source for the Dutch
East Indian Voyages], Deutsches
Schiffahrtsarchiv. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Schiffartmuseum,
13 (1990): 57[-]82
Lach, Donald F. and Edwin J. van Kley,
Asia in the Making of Europe, vol. 3, books 1[-]4: A Century of Advance, Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1965-93
Landwehr, John, VOC: A Bibliography of Publications relating to the Dutch East India Company,
1602[-]1800, Utrecht:
HES, 1991
Nieuwenhuys, Rob, Oost-Indische Speigel: wat Nederlandse schrijvers
en dichters over Indonesië hebben geschreven, vanaf de eerste
jaren der Compagnie tot op heden [East Indian Mirror: What
Dutch Writers and Poets Have Written on Indonesia from the First
Years of the East India Company up to the Present], Amsterdam:
Querido, 1972; 3rd edition, 1978
Raven-Hart,
Rowland, Cape Good Hope,
1652[-]1702: The First Fifty Years of Dutch Colonisation as Seen
by Callers, 2 vols, Cape Town: Balkema, 1971
Roeper, Vibeke and Diederick Wildeman,
Ontdekkingsreizen van Nederlanders, 1590[-]1650 [Dutch Voyages
of Discovery, 1590[-]1650], Utrecht: Kosmos, 1993
Roeper, Vibeke and Diederick Wildeman,
Reizen op papier: journalen
en reisverslagen van Nederlandse ontdekkingsreizigers, kooplieden
en avonturiers [Travels on Paper: Journals and Travel Accounts
of Dutch Discoverers, Merchants and Adventurers], Amsterdam: Vereeniging
Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum, 1996
Schilder, Günter, Australia Unveiled: The Share of the Dutch
Navigators in the Discovery of Australia, Amsterdam: Theatrum
Orbis Terrarum, 1976
Tiele, P.A., Mémoire bibliographique sur les journaux des navigateurs néerlandais
[Bibliographical Memoir of the Journals of Dutch Navigators],
Amsterdam: Muller, 1867; reprinted, Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1960
Tiele, P.A., Nederlandsche bibliographie van land- en volkenkunde [Dutch Bibliography
of Geography and Ethnology], Amsterdam: Muller, 1884; reprinted,
Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1966
Walravens, Harmut, China illustrata: Das europäische Chinaverständnis
im Spiegel des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts [China Illustrated:
The European Knowledge of China from the 16th until the 18th century],
Wolfeubuttel: Herzog-August Bibliothek, 1987
Zandvliet, Kees, Mapping for Money: Maps, Plans and Topographic
Paintings and Their Role in Dutch Overseas Expansion in the 16th
and 17th Centuries, Amsterdam: Batavian Lion International,
1998
East India Company: French
Travel Writing
These
travel memoirs and notes were written by Frenchmen (marine officers,
Company officials, traders, and scholars) who came to India during
the 17th and 18th centuries. Not all of these works have been
re-edited or translated.
Bernier,
François, Histoire de la
dernière révolution des États du Grand Mogol, 4 vols, 1670[-]71;
as Voyage dans les États du Grand Mogol, edited
by France Bhattacharya, 1981; as Travels
in the Mogul Empire, a.d.
1656[-]1668, translated by Irving Brock, revised
and annotated by Archibald Constable, 1891; 3rd edition, 1934
Bernier
was one of the most famous French travellers to India in the 17th
century.
Deleury,
Guy (editor), Les Indes
florissantes: anthologie des voyageurs français (1750[-]1820),
1991
In
this volume Guy Deleury has provided a selection of important
travel writings by French Company officials, travellers, and scholars
who came to India in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
La
Haye, Jacob de, and François Caron, Journal
du voyage des Grandes Indes, contenant tout ce qui s’y est fait
et passé par l’escadre de Sa Majesté envoyée sous le commandement
de Mr de la Haye, depuis son départ de La Rochelle au mois de
mars 1670, 1698
Modave,
Louis Laurent de Féderbe, Comte de, Voyage
en Inde du Comte de Modave, 1773[-]1776: nouveaux mémoires sur
l’état actuel du Bengale et de l’Indoustan, edited by Jean
Deloche, 1971; selection, as Comte de Modave’s Account of Bengal, 1773[-]1774,
translated by Pranabendra Nath Ghosh, 1992
Pyrard
de Laval, François, The
Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives,
the Moluccas and Brazil, translated from the 3rd French edition
of 1619, and edited by Albert Gray, 2 vols, 1887[-]90
Sonnerat,
Pierre, Voyage aux Indes
Orientales et à la Chine, fait par ordre du Roi, depuis 1774 jusqu’en
1781, 2 vols, 1782; revised and corrected edition, 4 vols,
1806
Tavernier,
Jean Baptiste, Les Six Voyages
de Jean Baptiste Tavernier … qu’il a fait en Turquie, en Perse
et aux Indes, pendant l’espace de quarante ans,
2 vols, 1676; as The
Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, 1678
These
volumes relate the travels of Jean Baptiste Tavernier in Turkey,
Persia, and the Indies, with his observations on religion, government,
customs, commerce, and money matters. Tavernier’s travel writings
contributed enormously to French scholarship on India.
Thévenot,
Jean de, Voyages de M. Thevenot,
contenant la relation de l’Indostan, des nouveaux Mogols et des
autres peuples et pays des Indes, 1684
Further Reading
Annasse,
Arthur, Les Comptoirs français
de l’Inde, 1664[-]1954: trois siècles de présence française, Paris: La Pensée Universelle, 1975
Besson,
Maurice, Les aventuriers
français aux Indes (1775[-]1820),
Paris: Payot, 1932
Conan,
J., La dernière compagnie française des Indes (1785[-]1875):
Avec la liste des principaux actionnaires de cette compagnie,
Paris: Librairie des sciences politiques et sociales, M. Rivière,
1942
Hill,
Samuel Charles, Three Frenchmen
in Bengal; or, The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in
1757, London and New York: Longman Green, 1903
Julien,
Charles-André, Les Voyages
de découverte et les premiers établissements (XVe[-]XVIe siècles),
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1948
Kaeppelin,
Paul, La Compagnie des Indes
Orientales et François Martin: Étude sur l’histoire du commerce
et des établissements français dans l’Inde sous Louis XIV (1664[-]1719),
Paris: Challamel, 1908
Malleson,
G.B., History of the French
in India, from the Founding of Pondichery in 1674 to the Capture
of that Place in 1761, new edition, London: W.H. Allen, 1893
Mathew,
K.S. and S. Jayaseela Stephen (editors), Indo-French
Relations, Delhi: Pragati, 1999
Contains
a detailed bibliographical survey of Indo-French history.
Mathiez,
Albert, Un Procès de corruption
sous la terreur: l’affaire de la Compagnie des Indes, Paris:
Alcan, 1920
Sen,
Siba Pada, The French in
India: First Establishment and Struggle, Calcutta: University
of Calcutta, 1947
Sen,
Siba Pada, The French in
India, 1763[-]1816, Calcutta: Mukhopadhyay, 1958
Vincent,
Rose (editor), The French
in India: From Diamond Traders to Sanskrit Scholars, translated
by Latika Padgaonkar, Bombay: Popular Prakasham, 1990
Weber,
Jacques, Les Établissements
français en Inde au XIXe siècle (1816[-]1914), 5 vols, Paris:
Librairie de l’Inde, 1988
Eastern Europe: to World War II
Travel Writing
Alt, Jacob, Donau
Ansichten, 1820[-]28
Anonymous, L’Origine
del Danubio, 1689
Baerlein, Henry, And
Then to Transylvania, 1931
Baerlein, Henry (editor),
Romanian Oasis, 1948
Baker, B. Granville,
The Danube with Pen and
Pencil, 1911
Beudant, F.S., Voyage
minéralogique et géologique en Hongrie, 4 vols, 1822; abridged
and translated as Travels
in Hungary in 1818, 1823
Birken, Sigmund von,
Der Donau-Strand, 1664
Birmingham, George
A., A Wayfarer in Hungary,
1925
Author’s real name
was James Owen Hannay.
Blackwell, Joseph
Andrew, Magyarországi Küldetései,
1843[-]1851, edited by Eva Haraszti, 1989
Covers Blackwell’s
Hungarian mission.
Blackwell, Joseph
Andrew, A Handbook for Travellers
in Southern Germany … and Austria, 1852
Boner, Charles, Transylvania,
1865
Born, Ignaz, Travels
through the Bannat of Temeswar, Transylvania and Hungary in the
Year 1770, translated by R.E. Raspe, 1777
Bright, Richard, Travels
from Vienna through Lower Hungary, 1818
Browne, Edward, A
Brief Account of Some Travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia,
Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli,
1673; 2nd edition, 1677
Byrne, Julia Clara,
Pictures of Hungarian Life,
1869
Çelebi,
Evliya, Seyahatnamesi [Book
of Travels], 10 vols, 1896[-]1938; in part as Narrative
of Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, translated from the
Turkish by Joseph von Hammer, 1834[-]50
Includes Hungarian
travel.
Cellarius, Christoph,
Geographia Antiquae,
2 vols, 1701[-]06
Childe, V. Gordon,
The Danube in Prehistory,
1929
The
Compleat Geographer, 4th edition, 1723
Crosse, Andrew, Round
about the Carpathians, 1878
Fermor, Patrick Leigh,
Between the Woods and the
Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland, the
Middle Danube to the Iron Gates, 1986
This book is the second
part of Fermor’s journal.
Ferrarius, Philippus,
Novum Lexicum Geographicum,
2 vols, 1738
Froehner, Wilhelm,
La Colonne Trajane,
2 vols, 1872[-]74
Gerard, Emily, The
Land beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures and Fancies from Transylvania,
2 vols, 1888
Griffith, Arthur,
The Resurrection of Hungary:
A Parallel for Ireland, 1904; 3rd edition, 1918
Hacquet, Balthasar,
Neueste Physikalisch-politische
Reisen in den Jahren 1788 und 1789 durch die Dacischen und Sarmatisehan
… 4 vols, 1790[-]96
Happel, Eberhard Werner,
Der ungarische Kriegs-Roman,
5 vols, 1685[-]89
Heksch, Alexander,
Die Donau, 1881
Hering, George, Sketches
on the Danube in Hungary and Transylvania, 1838
Johnson, Hewlett,
Eastern Europe in the Socialist
World, 1955
Josten, Jacob, Reise
Beschreibung durch die Türkey, Ungarn …,
1652
Kabdebó, Thomas, “Joseph
Andrew Blackwell” (PhD thesis, University of Manchester), 1984; translated into Hungarian
as Blackwell küldetése,
1990
Keyssler, Johann Georg,
Neueste Reisen durch Deutschland,
Böhman, Ungarn, die Schweiz, Italian und Lothrigon …, 4 vols,
1740; as Travels through
Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain …
4 vols, 1756
Konstantinovi[c3],
Zoran, Deutsche Reisebeschreibungen
über Serbien und Montenegro, 1960
Magris, Claudio, Danube,
translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh, 1989
An actual journey
in 1970 and a literary journey through the ages down the Danube.
McCulloch, J.R., A
Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, 2 vols,
1841[-]42
Mansfield, Robert
Blanchford, The Water Lily
on the Danube, Being a Brief Account of the Perils of a Pair-Oar
during a Voyage from Lambeth to Pesth, 1852
Marsili, Luigi Ferdinando,
Danubialis operis, 1700
Marsili, Luigi Ferdinando,
Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus,
6 vols, 1726
Marsili, Luigi Ferdinando,
Hongrie et le Danube,
1741
Millet, F.D., The
Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, 1892
Mohács
emlékezete [The Memory of Mohács], 1979
The Battle of Mohács
destroyed independent Hungary in 1526, and led to the establishment
of the Ottoman empire in Europe. See especially the writings of
Antonio Burgio.
Montagu,
Lady Mary Wortley, Letters
of the Right Honourable Lady M[ar]y W[ortle]y M[ontagu]e, Written
during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa to Persons of Distinction,
1763; as The Turkish Embassy Letters, edited by
Malcolm Jack, with an introduction by Anita Desai, 1993
O’Brien, Patrick,
Journal of a Residence in
the Danubian Principalities,
in the Autumn and Winter of 1853, 1854
Paget, John, Hungary
and Transylvania, 1839; new edition, 1850
Pardoe, Julia, The
City of the Magyar; or, Hungary and Her Institutions in 1839[-]40,
3 vols, 1840
Parkinson, Maude,
Twenty Years in Roumania,
1921
Planché, James Robinson,
Descent of the Danube from
Ratisbon to Vienna during the Autumn of 1827, 1828; as The Danube from Ulm to Vienna, 1836
Pulszky, Theresa,
Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady,
2 vols, 1850
Quin, Michael J., A Steam Voyage down the Danube, 2 vols,
1835
Smith, George Adam,
Danube section in Picturesque Europe, vol. 6, 1844: 271[-]88
Starkie, Walter, Raggle-Taggle:
Adventures with a Fiddle in Hungary and Roumania, 1933
Széchenyi, István,
Napló, 1978
Tekeli, Dominic, Reisen
durch Ungarn, 1805
Townson, Robert, Travels
in Hungary, with a Short Account of Vienna in the Year 1793,
1797
Wilden, J., Nouveau
Voyage d’un chrétien esclave, de 1604[-]1611 de la Hongrie à Constantinople
… , 1623
Further
Reading
Asiae
et Europae elegantis descriptio, Rome, 1531
With notices of Hungary,
Transylvania, and the Turkish wars.
Botoke, Joseph, Transylvania,
sive magnus Transilvania principatus, olim Dacia mediterranaea
… , 2 vols, Vienna, 1771
Deletant, Andrea and
Dennis Deletant, Romania, Oxford and Santa Barbara, California: Clio Press, 1985 (World
Bibliographical Series, vol. 59)
Drage, Geoffrey, Austria-Hungary,
London: John Murray, 1909
Kabdebó, Thomas, “Travellers
to Hungary: Blackwell’s Predecessors”, Maynooth Review, 8 (1983[-]84)
Kabdebó, Thomas, Danubius
Danubia, Budapest: Argumentum Kiadó, 1998
Life and travel in
Danube lands, 1780[-]1980; in Hungarian.
Kutuzov-Tolstoy, Myriam,
Budapest 1944[-]1945,
Marburg: Blue Horns, 1987
Lukacs, John, Destinations
Past: Traveling through History with John Lukacs, Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 1994
Includes a portrait
of Budapest in 1900.
Miclea, Ion, Decebal
si Traian, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1980
Miclea, Ion, Romania,
Eternal Land, translated by Sergiu Celac, Sibiu: Transilvania
Review, 1980
Sestini, Domenico,
Viaggio curioso-scientifico-antiquario
par la Valachia, Transilvania e Ungheria fino a Vienna, Florence:
Magheri, 1815
Thouvenel, Édouard
Antoine, La Hongrie et la
Valachie … Paris:
Bertrand, 1840
Treptow, Kurt W. and
Marcel Popa, Historical
Dictionary of Romania, Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press,
1996
Isabelle Eberhardt
1877[-]1904
Russian
writer and journalist
Travel Writing
Dans l’ombre chaude de l’Islam, edited
by Victor Barrucand, 1906; as In
the Shadow of Islam, translated by Sharon Bangert, 1993
Notes de route: Maroc[-]Algérie[-]Tunisie,
with a preface by Victor Barrucand, 1904; reprinted, 1998
Pages
d’Islam [Pages on Islam], edited by Victor Barrucand, 1920
Mes journaliers, 1923; as The Passionate Nomad: The Diary of Isabelle
Eberhardt, translated by Nina de Voogd, edited and with an
introduction by Rana Kabbani, 1987
The Oblivion Seekers and Other Writings,
translated by Paul Bowles, 1975
Ecrits sur le sable, edited by Marie Odile
Delacour and Jean René Huleu, 1988
Lettres et journaliers: sept années dans la
vie d’une femme, edited by Eglal Errera, 1989
Ecrits intimes: lettres aux trois hommes les
plus aimés, edited by Marie Odile Delacour and Jean René Huleu,
1991
Prisoner of Dunes: Selected Writings, edited
and translated by Sharon Bangert, 1995
Further Reading
Abdel-Jaouad,
Heidi, “Isabelle Eberhardt: Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Nomad”, Yale Fiction Studies, 83 (1993): 93[-]117
Discusses
Eberhardt’s “polygot” writing as a form of discursive nomadism
and her vagabondage as creative and redemptive.
Behdad,
Ali, “Allahou Akbar! He Is a Woman: Colonialism, Transvestism,
and the Orientalist Parasite” in his Belated
Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution,
Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1994
Examines
Eberhardt’s mediating role in Algeria as disruptive of colonial
dominance.
Clancy-Smith,
Julia, “The ‘Passionate Nomad’ Reconsidered: A European Woman
in L’Algérie Française” in Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and
Resistance, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel,
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992
Traces
Eberhardt’s shifting stances in relation to structures of colonial
power.
Eberhardt,
Isabelle, Trimardeur,
edited and completed by Victor Barrucand, Paris: Fasquelle, 1922;
as Vagabond translated by Annette Kobak, London: Hogarth Press, 1988
Unfinished
novel about a wandering Russian man whose life and travels resemble
those of Eberhardt.
Eberhardt,
Isabelle, Contes et paysages,
with a preface by René-Louis Doyon, Paris: La Connaisance, 1925
Collected
short stories.
Eberhardt,
Isabelle, Au pays des sables,
with preface by René-Louis Doyon, Paris: Sorlot, 1944
Collected
short stories.
Garber,
Marjorie, “The Chic of Araby: Transvestism and the Erotics of
Cultural Appropriation” in her Vested
Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety, New York:
Routledge, 1992
Exploration
of Eberhardt’s male masquerade.
Kobak,
Annette, Isabelle: The Life
of Isabelle Eberhardt, London: Chatto and Windus, 1988; New
York: Knopf, 1989
Biography
of Eberhardt.
Mackworth,
Cecily, The Destiny of Isabelle
Eberhardt, London: Routledge, 1951; New York: Ecco Press,
1975
Biography.
Rice,
Laura, “ ‘Nomad Thought’: Isabelle Eberhardt and the Colonial
Project”, Cultural Critique, 17 (1990[-]91): 151[-]76
Analyzes
the meanings Eberhardt attaches to nomadism.
Smith,
Sidonie, “Isabelle Eberhardt Traveling ‘Other’/wise: The ‘European’
Subject in ‘Oriental’ Identity” in Encountering
the Other(s): Studies in Literature, History, and Culture,
edited by Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Albany: State University of New
York Press, 1995
Examines
the complexities of gender and race in Eberhardt’s claims to European
and Arab identities.
Ecuador
Travel Writing
Bouguer,
Pierre, “An Abridged Relation of a Voyage to Peru” [1749] in A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting
Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, edited by John
Pinkerton, vol. 14, 1813: 270[-]312
Bouguer
travelled to Ecuador as part of a scientific mission to measure
longitude and subsequently travelled across the top of South America.
Darwin,
Charles, Journal and Remarks,
1832[-]1836 in Narrative
of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and
Beagle, edited by Robert Fitzroy, vol. 3, 1839; as Voyage
of the Beagle: Charles Darwin’s Journal of Researches, edited
and with introduction by Janet Browne and Michael Neve, 1989
Classic
account of Darwin’s explorations which included a brief stop on
the mainland of Ecuador and a longer spell on the Galapagos Islands.
De
Roy, Tui, Galapagos: Islands
Born of Fire, 1998
Ten
photo essays showing the diversity of wildlife found on the islands.
Dyott,
George Miller, On the Trail
of the Unknown in the Wilds of Ecuador and the Amazon, 1926
British
explorer’s transcontinental journey from Guayaquil to the mouth
of the Amazon.
Green,
Toby, Saddled with Darwin:
A Journey through South America, 1999
Recreation
of Darwin’s explorations to mark the 150th anniversary of the
voyage of the Beagle.
Hagen,
Victor Wolfgang von, Ecuador
the Unknown: Two and Half Years’ Travels in the Republic of Ecuador
and Galápagos Islands, 1939
German
naturalist and his botanist wife visit Ecuador to mark the 100th
anniversary of the voyage of the Beagle.
Much upon the people and includes reviews of past literature.
Hickman,
John, The Enchanted Islands:
The Galapagos Discovered, 1985
British
diplomat’s account of the people and the history of the Galapagos
islands.
Humboldt,
Alexander von, Ansichten
der Natur, 1808, revised edition, 1826 and 1849; as Views
of Nature, translated by E.C. Otte and Henry G. Bohn, 1850,
reprinted, 1975
Humboldt,
Alexander von, Vues des
Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique,
2 vols, 1810; as Researches Concerning the Institutions and
Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America, translated
by Helen Maria Williams, 2 vols, 1814
Humboldt,
Alexander von, Relation
historique du voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent,
3 vols (vol. 3 unfinished), 1814[-]25, reprinted, 1970; as Personal
Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent,
translated by Helen Maria Williams, 7 vols, 1814[-]29, reprinted,
1971
Humboldt
travelled widely throughout South America; these volumes include
his adventures and scientific experiments in what is now Ecuador.
La
Condamine, Charles-Marie de, Relation
abrégée d’un voyage fait dans l’interieur de l’Amérique meridionale,
1745; as A Succinct Abridgment
of a Voyage Made within the Inland Parts of South-America,
1747
Headed
the mission of which Bouguer was part, but went down the Amazon
after the measurements were made.
Mann,
Alexander, Yachting on the
Pacific: Together with Notes on Travel in Peru, and an Account
of the Peoples and Products of Ecuador, 1909
Contains
a lot of economic information about turn-of-the-century Ecuador.
Melville,
Herman, “The Encantados” in The
Piazza Tales, 1856
Prose
sketches of the Galapagos Islands.
Michaux,
Henri, Ecuador: journal
de voyage, 1929, revised editions, 1968, 1980, 1990; as Ecuador: A Travel Journal, translated by Robin Magowan, 1968
The
Belgian poet visited Ecuador in 1929 when he was in his sixties.
This, his journal, combines a travelogue with poetry he was inspired
to write.
Niles,
Blair, Casual Wanderings
in Ecuador, photographs by Roberts L. Niles, Jr, 1923
Early
1920s exploration starting in Guayaquil, “the worst hotbed of
yellow fever in South America”, and continuing into the sierra
and oriente regions.
Simson,
Alfred, Travels in the Wilds
of Ecuador, and the Exploration of the Putumayo River, 1886
Victorian
explorer’s account of travelling by canoe and foot, mixes travel,
history and accounts of Indian lives.
Sinclair,
Joseph H., “Some Reminiscences of Travel in Ecuador,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (October 1931); reprinted
as pamphlet, 1932
Brief
overview of Sinclair’s time in Ecuador as told to the American
Antiquarian Society.
Snailham,
Richard, Sangay Survived:
The Story of the Ecuador Volcano Disaster, 1978
British
attempt on Mount Sangay is struck by disaster.
Theroux,
Paul, The Old Patagonian
Express: By Train through the Americas, 1979
Theroux
travelled the length of the Americas by train, passing through
Ecuador.
Thomsen,
Moritz, Living Poor: A Peace
Corps Chronicle, 1969; as Living
Poor: An American’s Encounter with Ecuador, 1989
Thomsen
spent two years in Ecuador working for the Peace Corps; alternately
hilarious and heart-breaking.
Whymper,
Edward, Travels amongst
the Great Andes of the Equator, 1892; edited and with an introduction
by Eric Shipton, 1972; introduction by Loren McIntyre, 1987
Whymper
mixes adventure and science, especially botany, in a book which
includes some superb engravings.
Further Reading
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
The
best source for first-hand accounts of the conquistadores’ actions
in South America.
Eden, Emily (1797[-]1869)
British
traveler
Travel
Writing
Portraits of the Princes and People of India,
1844
24
lithographs based on some of her Indian sketches
Up the Country: Letters Written to Her Sister
from the Upper Provinces of India, 2 vols, 1866; reprinted
with notes by Edward Thompson, 1983
Letters from India, edited by Eleanor Eden,
1872
Miss Eden’s Letters, edited by Violet Dickinson,
1919
30
previously unpublished letters.
Further
Reading
Barr,
Pat, The Memsahibs: The Women of Victorian India,
London: Secker and Warburg, 1976
Ghose,
Indira, Women Travellers
in Colonial India: The Power of the Female Gaze, New Delhi
and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998
Kaye,
John William, History of
the War in Afghanistan, with an introduction by Elizabeth
Claridge, 3 vols, London: Bentley, 1851
Amelia Blandford Edwards 1831[-]1892
British
novelist and travel writer
Travel Writing
Sights and Stories: Being Some Account of a Holiday Tour through the North
of Belgium,
1862
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys: A Midsummer
Ramble in the Dolomites, 1873; reprinted, with a new introduction
by Philippa Levine, 1986
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, 1877; 2nd edition, 1989
Further Reading
Manuscript material is held at Somerville
College, Oxford; Egypt Exploration Society, London; University
College London; British Library; Record Office, City of Bristol.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda, “Amelia Edwards:
Her Childhood and Early Life”, New
England Magazine, 7/5 (1893): 547[-]64
Betham-Edwards,
Matilda, Reminiscences,
London: Redway, 1898
Betham-Edwards,
Matilda, Mid-Victorian Memories,
London: John Murray, 1919
Dawson, Warren R. and Eric P. Uphill,
Who Was Who in Egyptology,
3rd edition, revised by M.L. Bierbrier, London: Egypt Exploration
Society, 1995
Pye, J.W., “Painful Last Days of ‘The
Queen of Egyptology’”, KMT
Magazine: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, 5/4 (1994): 77[-]81
Rees, Joan, Writings on the Nile: Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Amelia
Edwards, London: Rubicon Press, 1995
Rees, Joan, Amelia Edwards: Traveller, Novelist and Egyptologist, London: Rubicon
Press, 1998
Winslow, William Copley, “‘The Queen
of Egyptology”, American
Antiquarian, 14/6 (1892): 305[-]15
Egeria, 4th century ad
Spanish
nun and pilgrim
Travel
Writing
Egeria’s Travels, translated by John Wilkinson,
1981
Journal de Voyage, edited by Pierre Maraval,
1982
Itinerarium/ Reisebericht, Latin text and
German translation by Georg Röwekamp and Dietmar Thönes, 1995
Further
Reading
Devos,
Paul, “La Date du Voyage d’Egérie”, Analecta
Bollandiana, 85 (1967): 165[-]94
Norris,
Frederick W., entry on Egeria in Encyclopedia
of Early Christianity, 2nd edition, edited by Everett Ferguson,
New York: Garland, 1997
Sivan,
H., “Who Was Egeria? Piety and Pilgrimage in the Age of Gratian”,
Harvard Theological Review, 81 (1988):
59[-]72
Wilkinson,
John (editor), Egeria’s
Travels to the Holy Land, revised edition, Warminster: Aris
and Phillips, and Jerusalem: Ariel, 1981 [1971]
Egypt: Ancient to ad 680
Travel
Writing
Diodorus
Siculus, The Antiquities
of Asia: A Translation with Notes of Book II of the Library of
History, edited by Edwin Murphy, 1989
Egeria,
Egeria’s Travels, translated and edited
by John Wilkinson, 1971
The Greek Alexander Romance, translated
and with an introduction by Richard Stoneman, 1991
Herodotus,
Herodotus, Book II, edited by W.G. Waddell,
1939
Herodotus,
The Histories, translated by Aubrey de
Sélincourt, with an introduction and notes by A.R. Burn, 1972
Herodotus,
The Histories, translated by Walter Blanco,
edited by Blanco and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, 1992
Homer,
The Odyssey, translated by Richmond Lattimore,
1967
Plutarch,
Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride, edited
and translated by J. Gwyn Griffiths, 1970
Strabo,
The Geography of Strabo, 8 vols, translated
by Horace Leonard Jones, 1917[-]32; reprinted, 1983
Further
Reading
Armayor,
O. Kimball, “Did Herodotus Ever Go to Egypt?”, Journal
of the American Research Center in Egypt, 15 (1980): 59[-]73
Burn,
A.R., Alexander the Great
and the Middle East, London: Penguin, 1973
Chauveau,
Michel, Egypt in the Age
of Cleopatra: History and Society under the Ptolemies, translated
by David Lorton, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2000
Diller,
Aubrey, The Tradition of
the Minor Greek Geographers, New York: American Philological
Association, 1952
Fehling,
Detlev, Herodotus and His
“Sources”: Citation, Invention and Narrative Art, translated
by J.G. Howie, Leeds: Cairns, 1990
Gould,
John, Herodotus, London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, and New York: St Martin’s Press, 1989
Greener,
Leslie, The Discovery of
Egypt, London: Cassell, 1966; New York: Viking, 1967
Holt,
Frank L., Alexander the
Great and Bactria: The Formation of a Greek Frontier in Central
Asia, Leiden and New York: Brill, 1989
Jouget,
Pierre, Macedonian Imperialism
and the Hellenization of the East, London: Kegan Paul Trench
Trubner, and New York: Knopf, 1928
Kelley,
Donald R., Faces of History:
Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder, New Haven, Connecticut:
Yale University Press, 1998
Lateiner,
Donald, The Historical Method
of Herodotus, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989
Lister,
R.P., The Travels of Herodotus,
London: Gordon and Cremonesi, 1979
McQueen,
E.I., Diodorus Siculus,
The Reign of Philip II: The Greek and Macedonian Narrative from
Book XVI: A Companion, London: Bristol Classical Press, 1995
Marlowe,
John, The Golden Age of
Alexandria: From Its Foundation by Alexander the Great in 331
bc to Its Capture
by the Arabs in 642 ad,
London: Gollancz, 1971
Peters,
F.E., The Harvest of Hellenism:
A History of the Near East from Alexander the Great to the Triumph
of Christianity, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970; London:
Allen and Unwin, 1972
Plutarch,
The Malice of Herodotus, translated with
commentary by Anthony Bowen, Warminster, Wiltshire: Aris and Phillips, 1992
Romm,
James S., The Edges of the
Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fiction, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992
Sivan,
Hagith, “Who Was Egeria? Piety and Pilgrimage in the Age of Gratian”,
Harvard Theological Review, 81/1 (1988):
59[-]72
Skeen,
Judy Lynn, “A Comparative Study of the Wandering People of Hebrews
and the Pilgrimage of Egeria” (dissertation), Louisville, Kentucky:
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1993
Spiegelberg,
Wilhelm, The Credibility
of Herodotus’ Account of Egypt in the Light of the Egyptian Monuments,
translated by Aylward M. Blackman, Oxford: Blackwell, 1927
Spitzer,
Leo, “The Epic Style of the Pilgrim Aetheria”, Comparative Literature, 1 (1949): 225[-]58
Starowieyski,
Marek, “Bibliografia Egeriana”, Augustinianum,
19 (1979): 297[-]317
Sumption,
Jonathan, Pilgrimage: An
Image of Mediaeval Religion, London: Faber, and Totowa, New
Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975
Swanson,
Donald C., “A Formal Analysis of Egeria’s (Silvia’s) Vocabulary”,
Glotta, 44 (1966[-]67): 177[-]254
Thomas,
Rosalind, Herodotus in Context:
Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion, Cambridge
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000
Wilson-Kastner,
Patricia (editor), A Lost
Tradition: Women Writers of the Early Church, Washington,
DC: University Press of America, 1981
Egypt: Islamic travelers
Travel Writing
Ahmad, Mahmoud, Bayan tarikhi ‘an masjed ‘Amr Ibn-Al-’As: rihalat Farouk wa Faiza wa Fauziah
lizyarat al-masajed al-athariah, Cairo, n.d.
Ahmad, Mahmoud, Bayan tarikhi ‘an masjed al-sultan Hassan wa sharh mumaizatahu al-faniah:
rihalat Farouk wa Faiza wa Fawziah lizyarat al-masajed al-athariah,
Cairo, n.d.
Al-`Abdari, Mohammad Ibn Abu-`Abd-Allah Al-Himi,
Rihlat Al-`Abdari al-mosammah al-rihla al-maghribiah,
1968
Al-’Omari (Shihab Al-Din Abu’l-Abbas), Ahmad Ibn
Yahya Ibn Fadl-Allah, Masalik
al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar, 1924; facsimile, 1988
Al-Baghdadi, `Abd-al-Latif, Kitab al-ifadah wa’l-i’tibar, edited by Ayman Fu’ad Sayyid, 1983;
as The Eastern Key,
translated by Kamal Hafuth Zand, John A. Videan and Ivy E. Videan,
1965
Al-Bakri, Abu ‘Ubayd, Kitab al-masalik wa’l-mamalik, 2 vols, 1992; as Description de l’Afrique septentrionale,
translated by MacGuckin de Slane, 1859; revised edition, 1965
Al-Balawi, Khalid Ibn ‘Isa, Taj al-mafriq fi tahliyat ‘ulama’ al-mashriq, 2 vols, 1980
Al-Gizi, Rabi’ Ibn Suliman, Rihlat Al-Imam Al-Shaf’i min Macca ila Yanbu’, 1950
Al-Harawi, ‘Ali Ibn Abi-Bakr, Kitab al-isharat ila ma’rifat al-ziyarat,
1953; as Guide des lieux
de pèlerinage, translated by Janine Sourdel-Thomine, 1957
Al-Idrisi, (Mohammed Ibn Mohammed), Kitab Nuzhat al-mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq,
edited by Mohammed Hajj Sadiq, 1983; as Géographie
d’Édrisi, translated by P. Amédée Jaubert, 2 vols, 1836[-]40;
as Opus Geographicum, translated by A. Bombaci et
al., 9 parts, 1970[-]84
Al-Istakhri, Abu-Ishaq Ibrahim Al-Faresi, Kitab al-masalik wa-al-mamalik, edited
by M.J. de Goeje, 1870; as The
Oriental Geography of Ebn Haukal, translated by William Ouseley,
1800
Based on a book of maps by Ahmad Ibn Sahl al-Balkhi,
revised by Al-Istakhri c.951,
and subsequently by Ibn-Hawqal, c.977
Al-Mas’udi, ‘Ali Ibn al-Hussain, Muruj al-dhahab wa ma’adin al-jawhar / Les
Prairies d’or, edited and translated by C. Barbier de Meynard
and Pavet de Courteille, 9 vols, 1861[-]77; selection, as The Meadows of Gold: The Abbasids, translated by Paul Lunde and Caroline
Stone, 1989
Al-Mas’udi, ‘Ali Ibn al-Hussain, Kitab Al-tanbih wa’l ishraf, edited by
M.J. de Goeje, 1894; as Le
Livre de l’avertissement et de la révision, translated by
B. Carra de Vaux, 1896
Al-Muqaddasi, Shams Al-Din Mohammad Ibn Ahmad, Kitab Ahsan al-taqasim fi ma’rifat al-aqalim,
edited by M.J. de Goeje, 1877, 2nd edition, 1906; as The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions, translated by Basil
Anthony Collins, 1994
Al-Rihani, Amin (Fares), Muluk al-Arab, aw Rihlah fi al-bilad al-Arabiah, 2 vols, 1924[-]25;
2nd edition, 1929
Al-Ya’qubi, Ahmad Ibn Abi Ya’qub Ibn Jafar, Kitab al-buldan, edited by M.J. de Goeje,
1892
Al-Zaheri, Ghars al-Din Khalil Ibn Shahin, Zubdat kashf al-mamalik: Tableau politique
et administratif de l’Égypte, de la Syrie et du Hidjaz, edited
by Paul Ravaisse, 1894
Azm, Nazih Mu’ayyad, Rihlah fi -bilad al-Arabiah al-sa’idah: min Misr ila Sana’a, 1937
Fouad, Ne’mat, Rihlat al-sharq wa al-gharb, 1986
Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani, Ahmad Ibn Mohammad, Kitab al-buldan, edited by Yusuf al-Hadi,
1996; as Abrégé de livre
des pays, translated by Henri Massé, edited by Charles Pellat,
1973
Ibn al-Ma’mun, Passages de la chronique d’Égypte, edited by Ayman Fu’ad Sayyid, 1983
Ibn Battuta, Tuhfat
al-nuzzar fi ghara’ib al-amsar wa ‘aja’ib al-asfar, 2 vols,
1905; as Voyages d’Ibn Batoutah, translated by C.
Defrémery and B.R. Sanguinetti, 1853[-]59; as The Travels of Ibn Battuta a.d.
1325[-]1354, translated by H.A.R. Gibb, 3 vols, 1958[-]71;
as The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveller
of the 14th Century, translated by Ross E. Dunn, 1986
Ibn Khaldun, `Abd-al-Rahman Ibn Mohammad, Al-ta’rif b’ Ibn Khaldun wa rihlatuhu gharban
wa sharqan, edited by Mohammed Ibn Tawit al-Tanji, 1951; as
Le Voyage d’occident et d’orient, translated
by Abdessalam Cheddadi, 1980
Ibn Khurradadhbib, Abu al-Qasim Ibn ‘Ubayd Allah,
Al-masalik wa al-mamalik,
edited by Mohammed Makhzum, 1988
Ibn-Hawqal, Abu al-Qasim Mohammad Ibn Ali al-Nasibi,
Kitab Surat al-ard,
2 vols, edited by J.H. Kramers, 1938[-]39; as Configuration
de la terre, translated by J.H. Kramers and G. Wiet, 2 vols,
1964
Ibn Jubayr, The
Travels of Ibn Jubayr, translated by R.J.C. Broadhurst, 1952
Khosrau, Nasir-i, Sefer Nameh: relation du voyage de Nassiri Khosrau en Syrie, en Palestine,
en Égypte, en Arabie et en Perse, edited and translated by
Charles Schefer, 1881; reprinted, 1970; as Sefarnamah,
Arabic translator Yehia Al-Khashab, 1993
Kitab al-istibsar
fi ‘ajab’i al-amsar: wasf Makkah wa al-Madinah wa Misr wa bilad
al-Maghrib / Description de la Mekke et de Médine, de l’Égypte
et de l’Afrique septentrionale, par un écrivain marocain du VIe siècle de
l’Hégire (XIIe s. J.C.), text in Arabic and French, edited
and partially translated by Saad Zaghlul `Abd al-Hamid, 1958
Leo Africanus, Della descrittione dell’ Africa, 1526; as Wasf Ifriqi, 1980; as The History
and Description of Africa, translated by John Pory, edited
by Robert Brown, 3 vols, 1896; reprinted, 1965
Musa, Sabri, Fi
al-sahara, 1964
Thabit, Karim, Rihlat galalat al-malik Fouad al-awal bin Misr wa Europa fi saif 1929,
1931
Yaqut Ibn `Abd-Allah (al-Rumi) al-Hamawi, Kitab Mu’jam al-buldan, 8 vols, 1906; as
Jacut’s geographisches Wörterbuch,
edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, 6 vols, 1866[-]73
Further
Reading
Abbas, Zhaylan, Athar Misr al-qadimah fi kitabat al-rahhalah al-arab wa al-ajanib,
Cairo: al-Dar al-Misriah al-Lebnaniah, 1992
Donini, Pier Giovanni, Arab Travelers and Geographers, London: Immel, 1991
Gabrieli, Francesco, Viaggi e viaggiatori arabi, Florence: Sansoni, 1975
Hourani, George Fadio, Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times,
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1951; revised
and expanded by John Carswell, 1995
Ibn Al-Nadim, Abu al-Faraj Mohammad Ibn Abi Yaqub
Ishaq al-Warraq, The Fihrist
of al-Nadim, edited and translated by Bayard Dodge, 2 vols,
New York: Columbia University Press, 1970; as Kitab
al-fihrist lil-Nadim, edited by Riza Tajaddud, Tehran: Matba’ah-i
Danishgah, 1971
Krachkovskii, I.J., Istoriia Arabskoi geograficheskoi literatury, 2 vols, Moscow, 1957;
as Tarikh al-adab al-jughrafi
al-Arabi, translated by Salah al-Din ‘Uthman Hashim, Cairo:
Lajnat al-ta’lif wa al-tarjamah wa al-nashr, 1963[-]65
McDonald, Lucile Saunders, The Arab Marco Polo: Ibn Battuta, Nashville: Nelson, 1975
Meisami, Julie Scott and Paul Starkey (editors),
Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, 2 vols,
London and New York: Routledge, 1998
Miquel, Andre, La Geographie humaine du monde musulman jusqu’au milieu du 11e siècle,
4 vols, Paris and The Hague: Mouton, 1967[-]88
Nassar, Husayn, Adab al-rihlah, Cairo: Maktabat Lebanan, 1991
Newton, Arthur Percival (editor), Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages,
London: Kegan Paul, and New York: Knopf, 1926
Trapier, Blanche, Les Voyageurs arabes au moyen âge: dix-limit reproduction, Paris:
Gallimard, 1937
Ziyadah, Niqula, Al-goghraphia wa’l-rihalat ‘ind al-Arab, Beirut: Maktabat al-madrasah
wa dar al-kitab al-lebnani, 1962
Ziyadah, Niqula, Al-rahhalah al-Arab, Cairo: Dar al-hilal, 1956
Egypt: Western Travellers
Travel
Writing
Abu
Talib Khan, Travels of Mirza
Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe, during the Years 1799,
1800, 1801 1802 and 1803, translated and edited by Charles
Stewart, 1810
Ampère,
J.J.A., Voyage en Égypte
et en Nubie, 1868
Son
of the great physicist’s journey in Egypt.
Annesley,
George, Voyages and Travels
to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt in the years
1802, 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806, 3 vols, 1809
Arundale,
Francis, Illustrations of
Jerusalem and Mount Sinai: Including the Most Interesting Sites
between Grand Cairo and Beirout, 1837
Athanasi,
Giovanni d’, A Brief Account
of the Researches and Discoveries in Upper Egypt made under the
Direction of Henry Salt Esq., 1836
Greek
excavator working with Belzoni, Athanasi was the first European
enter the Pyramid of Chephren.
Aveling,
T.W., Voices of Many Waters;
or, Travels in the Lands of the Tiber, Jordan and the Nile,
1855
Baltimore,
Frederick, A Tour to the
East, in the years 1763 and 1764, 1787
Barsky,
Vasily Grigorovich, Pilgrimage
to the Holy Places in the East from 1727 to 1747, 1778
Russian
monk provided short descriptions of towns during his travels.
Barth,
Heinrich, Wanderungen durch
die Kustenlander, des Mittelmeers, Ausgefahrtin der Jahre 1845,
1846 und 1847, 1849
Journey
from Tangier through North Africa and Near East to Greece.
Barth,
Heinrich, Travels and Discoveries
in North and Central Africa, 5 vols, 1857[-]58
Account
of journey undertaken for the British government to open up communications
with central and western Sudan.
Bartlett,
S.C., From Egypt to Palestine
through Sinai, the Wilderness, and the South Country, Observations
of a Journey Made with Special Reference to the History of the
Israelites, 1879
Bartlett,
W.H., Forty Days in the
Desert, on the track of the Israelites; or, a Journey from Cairo,
by Wady Feiran, to Mount Sinai and Petra, 1848
Bartlett,
W.H., Scripture Sites and
Scenes: from Actual Survey, in Egypt, Arabia and Palestine,
1849
Bartlett,
W.H., The Nile Boat; or,
Glimpses of the Land of Egypt, 1850
A
topographical artist seeking to show the realities of Eastern
life. Excellent word pictures too.
Beamont,
William, A Diary of a Journey
to the East, In the Autumn of 1854, 1856
Beamont,
William, Cairo to Sinai
and Sinai to Cairo: Being an Account of a Journey in the Desert
of Arabia, November and December 1860, 1861
Beaton,
Cecil, Near East, 1943
Fashion
photographer Beaton was “loaned” by the Ministry Information to
collect material for reports and photograph the Middle East. His
travels cover the disaster of Tobruk and the retreat to El Alamein.
Beaufort,
Emily A., Egyptian Sepulchres
and Syrian Shrines, 2 vols, 1861
Belzoni,
Giovanni Battista, Narrative
of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids,
Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia, 1821
Belzoni,
Giovanni Battista, Plates
Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of Belzoni in Egypt,
1820
Belzoni
spent nearly four years in Egypt with his wife. He brought a huge
head of Ramses II down river, entered Abu Simbel temple, discovered
Seti’s tomb, and entered the second pyramid.
Belzoni,
Sarah, “Short Account of the Women of Egypt, Nubia and Syria”
in Belzoni’s Narrative, 1821
Mrs
Belzoni spent periods living with local people on Philae and in
Luxor.
Bevan,
Samuel, Sand and Canvas:
A Narrative of Adventures in Egypt, 1849
Bibescu,
Martha, Egyptian Day,
translated by Helen Everitt and Raymond Everitt, 1930
Romanian
society beauty used her charms and was charmed in return.
Biddulph,
William, The Travels of
Certaine Englishmen ... into Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythinia, Thracia,
and to the Blacke Sea, edited by Theophilus Lavender, 1609;
Facsimile, 1968
Blount,
Henry, A Voyage into the
Levant, 1636
Frith,
Francis and Joseph Bonomi, Egypt,
Nubia and Ethiopia illustrated by one Hundred Stereoscopic Photographs,
1862
Bramsen,
John, Travels in Egypt,
Syria, Cyprus, the Morea, Greece, Italy etc., 1820
Experiences
of a Prussian traveller in Egypt.
Breasted,
James Henry, Egypt through
the Stereoscope: A Journey Through the Land of the Pharoahs,
1905
Breydenbach,
Bernhard von, Peregrinatio
in terram sanctum [Pilgrimage to Jerusalem], 1486; German
edition, 1486
Bremer,
Fredrika, Travels in the
Holy Land, 2 vols, translated by Mary Howitt, 1862
The
travels of a Swedish lady in the Near East.
Bromfield,
William Arnold, Letters
from Egypt and Syria, 1856
Travelled
in 1850[-]51, south as far as Khartoum, Bromfield died in Damascus.
Briggs,
Martins, Through Egypt in
Wartime, 1918
Browne,
W.G., Travels in Africa,
Egypt and Syria from the year 1792 to 1798, 1799
Bruce,
James, Travels to Discover
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Buckingham,
James Silk, Autobiography
of James Silk Buckingham: Including his Voyages, Travels, Adventures,
Speculations, Successes and Failures, 2 vols, 1855
Burckhardt,
John Lewis, Travels in Nubia
and the Interior of North-eastern African performed in 1813 to
which arte prefixed Life and Memoir of the Author, 1819
Swiss
Arabist employed by the African Association to cross Africa.
Burton,
Nathanael, A Narrative of
a Voyage from Liverpool to Alexandria, 1838
Burton,
Richard, Personal Narrative
of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, vol 1 of 3, 1856
Disguised
as an Indian doctor, Burton travelled through Egypt en route to
Mecca.
Cailliaud,
Frédéric, Travels in the
Oasis of Thebes and in the Deserts situated East and West of the
Thebiad, 1822[-]24
Cailliaud,
Frédéric, Voyage á Méroé,
au fleuve blanc, au delà de Fâzoql dans le midi di sennâr á Syouah
et dans cinq autres oases, 1826[-]27
French
mineralogist employed by Mehemet Ali travelled widely beyond the
routes of less adventurous travellers.
Camp,
Maxime du, Le Nil, ou Lettres
de l’Égypte et la Nubie, 1852
Du
Camp travelled with Gustave Flaubert in 1849[-]51.
Capper,
James, Observations on the
Passage to India, through Egypt, 1783
Carey,
M.L.M., Four months in a
Dahabeéh, or, Narrative of a Winter’s Cruise on the Nile,
1863
Carne,
John, Letters from the East;
Written during a Recent Tour through Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, the
Holy Land, Syria and Greece, 1826
Carne,
John, Recollections of travels
in the East Forming a Continuation of Letters from the East,
1830
Champollion,
J.F., Lettres écrits d’Égypte
et de Nubie, en 1828 et 1829 [Letters from Egypt and Nubia
1828[-]29], 1833
The
only journey to Egypt of the Frenchman whose work deciphered the
hieroglyphs.
Charmes,
Gabriel, Five months at
Cairo and in Lower Egypt, translated by William Conn, 1883
Chateaubriand,
François René de, vicomte de, Travels
in Greece, Palestine, Egypt and Barbary, during the Years 1806
and 1807, translated by Frederic Shoberl, 1811
Chubb,
Mary, Nefertiti lived here,
1954
Secretary
to and observer of a dig at Tell Amarna in 1934.
Churchill,
Awnsham, A Collection of
Voyages and Travels, 4 vols, 1703[-]04
Clarke,
Edward Daniel, Travels in
Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, 6 vols, 1810[-]23
Scholar
and enthusiastic traveller, travelled in Egypt as the French were
departing in 1801 and was involved in the claiming of the Rosetta
Stone.
Clayton,
Robert, A Journal from Grand
Cairo to Mount Sinai and back again, 1753
Cocteau,
Jean, Maalesh: A Theatrical
Tour of the Middle East, translated by Mary C. Hoeck, 1956
Conder,
Josiah, The Modern Traveller:
Egypt, 1824
A
first guide book to Egypt that relies heavily on long quotes from
such travellers as Richardson and Belzoni.
Cooper,
Edward J., Views in Egypt
and Nubia: from a Collection of Drawings taken on the Banks of
the Nile by S. Bossi, 1824[-]27
Coward,
Noel, Middle East Diary,
1944
Travels
during World War II.
Cumming,
C.F. Gordon, Via Cornwall
to Egypt, 1885
Curtis,
George William, Nile Notes
of a Howadji, or the American in Egypt, 1851
After
a facetious start, the country overcomes him and he writes well.
Curzon,
Robert, A Visit to Monasteries
in the Levant, 1849; 3rd edition, 1850
Curzon’s
purpose was to rescue the treasures of the monasteries and recover
priceless manuscripts.
Dalton,
Richard, Views and Engravings
in Greece and Egypt 1790[-]91
Visited
Egypt in 1749; later became Royal Librarian.
Damer,
G.L. Dawson, Diary of a
Tour in Greece, Turkey, Egypt and the Holy Land, 2 vols, 1841
Denon,
Vivant, Voyage dans la Basse
et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte,
2 vols, 1802, edited by Hélène Guichard, Adrien Goetz and Martine
Reid, 1998; as Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, translated by Francis Blagdon, 2
vols, 1802; translated by Arthur Aikin, 3 vols, 1803
Travels
of one of Napoleon’s savants,
later Director of the Royal Museums, went to many parts of Egypt
with the French army, recording on his way.
Disraeli,
Benjamin, Home Letters,
1885
Disraeli’s
travels were a background source for some of his novels.
Dorr,
Benjamin, Notes of Travel
in Egypt, the Holy Land, Turkey and Greece, 1856
Duff
Gordon, Lucie, Letters from
Egypt, 1863[-]65, 1865; and
Last Letters from Egypt, 1875
In
Egypt for her health, Lady Duff Gordon travelled with and lived
among local people and died there of consumption.
Dumas,
Alexandre, Impressions of
Travel, in Egypt and Arabia Petraea, 1839
du
Mont, Baron John, Voyages
en France, en Italie, en Allemagne, à Malthe et en Turquie, 1699
Durrell,
Lawrence, Spirit of Place:
Letters and Essays on Travel, edited by Alan G. Thomas, 1969
Eden,
Frederic, The Nile without
a Dragoman, 1871
Edmonstone,
Archibald, A Journey to
Two of the Oases of Upper Egypt, 1822
Edmonstone
travelled to xxx , becoming one of the first Europeans to reach
them.
Edwards,
Amelia, A Thousand Miles
up the Nile, 1877
A
classic of Nile travel. Her experience led her to become co-founder
of the Egypt Exploration Fund which oversaw scientific excavations.
Frequently re-issued.
Edwards,
Matilda Bethune, Holiday
Letters from Athens, Egypt and Weimar, 1873
Cousin
of better-known Amelia Edwards, travelled widely, living simply.
Egeria
(or Etheria), The Pilgrimage
of St Silvia of Aquitania to the Holy Places (c.385
ad),
translated by J.H. Barnard, 1896
Egeria,
Egeria’s Travels, translated by John Wilkinson,
1971
Elwood,
Anne Katharine Curteis, Narrative
of a Journey Overland from England, by the Continent of Europe,
Egypt, and the Red Sea, including a Residence there, and Voyage
Home, in the Years 1825[-]28, 1830
Enemannius,
Michael, Resa i Orienten,
1711[-]12, 1889
Eneman
stayed mainly in Cairo, but also went to Sinai, leaving a careful
survey of contemporary Egypt.
English,
George Bethune, A Narrative
of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar under the Command of
his Excellency Ismael Pasha, 1822
Memoirs
of an American soldier who served in the Egyptian army.
Fabri,
Felix, Felix Fabri (circa
1480[-]1483 ad) [Wanderings in the Holy Land],
translated by Aubrey Stewart, 2 vols, 1892[-]93
A
German monk who travelled twice to the Holy Land on pilgrimage,
and reported his experience with a humour which is timeless.
Fairholt,
Frederick, Up the Nile and
Home Again: a Handbook for Travellers and a Travel-book for the
Library, 1862
Falkland,
Amelia Cary, Viscountess, Chow-chow:
Being selections from a journal kept in India, Egypt and Syria,
1857
Fay,
Eliza, Original Letters
from India (1779[-]1815), edited by E.M. Forster, 1925; with
an introduction by M.M. Kaye, 1986
Field,
Henry M., From Egypt to
Japan, 1877
Field,
Henry M., On the Desert:
with a Brief History of recent events in Egypt, 1883
Finati,
Giovanni, Narrative of the
Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati, edited by William
J. Bankes, 1830
Career
of an Italian janissary who worked for many travellers.
Fitzclarence,
G.A., [George Augustus Munster], Journal
of a Route across India, through Egypt, to England, in the latter
end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818, 1819
Fitzmaurice,
William Edward, A Cruise
to Egypt, Palestine and Greece, 1834
Flaubert,
Gustave, Flaubert in Egypt:
A Sensibility on Tour,
edited and translated from the French
by Francis Steegmuller, 1972; reprinted, 1996
Forbin,
Louis N.P.A. Comte de, Travels
in Egypt in 1817[-]18, being a continuation of the Travels in
the Holy Land, 1819
Later
Director of the Royal Museums of France Forbin travelled and collected.
Frith,
Francis, Egypt and Palestine
Photographed and Described, 1858[-]60
Frith,
Francis, Egypt, Sinai and
Palestine, Photographed and Described, c.1862
Early
photographer’s journey on the Nile as far as above the sixth cataract.
Fuller,
John, Narrative of a Tour
through some parts of the Turkish Empire, 1830
Gadsby,
John, My Wanderings: Being
Travels in the East, 2 vols, 1855
Gleichen,
Edward, With the Camel Corps
up the Nile, 1888
Gleichen,
Edward, Report on the Nile
and Country between Dongola, Suakin, Kassala and Omdurman,
2nd edition, 1898
Golding,
William, An Egyptian Journal,
1985
The
author made the journey in a boat converted like those of earlier
travellers.
Grey,
Catharine Thérèse, Journal
of a Visit to Egypt, Constantinople, the Crimea, Greece etc. in
the Suite of the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1869
Hahn-Hahn,
Ida, Letters of a German
Countess: Written during her Tour in Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land,
Syria, Nubia, etc. in 1843[-]44, 3 vols, 1849
Haight,
Sarah, Letters from the
Old World, by a Lady of New-York, 1840
Halls,
J.J., Life and Correspondence
of Henry Salt, 1834
Henry
Salt was British Consul General in Egypt 1816[-]1827 and many
travellers stayed with him and wrote of him. He had also passed
through Egypt with Lord Valentia in 1806, and went four times
to Upper Egypt.
Hakluyt,
Richard, “Voyage to the cities of Alexandria and Cairo, 1585”
in The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques
and Discoveries of the English Nation, vol. 2, 1598
Hakluyt,
Richard, Hakluyt’s Collection
of the Early Voyages, Travels
and Discoveries of the English Nation, 1809[-]12
Hamilton,
William Richard, Remarks
on Several Parts of Turkey, Part 1: Aegyptica
or Some Account of the Ancient and Modern State of Egypt Obtained
in the Years 1801[-]02, 1809
Lord
Elgin’s secretary was sent to Egypt with the British expedition
and travelled up the Nile to survey the state of the country and
its monuments.
Hasselquist,
Frederick, Voyages and Travels
in the Levant in the years 1749[-]52, 1766
Having
worked with the great botanist Linnaeus, the Swedish scientist
Hasselquist went East to observe flora and fauna in the area.
Hay,
Helen Selina, Countess of Gifford, Lispings
from Low Latitudes, or Extracts from the Journal of the Hon. Impulsia
Gushington, 1863
A
parody on Silly Women Travellers with too much time and money,
and the adventures of one such in Egypt.
Head.
C.F., Eastern and Egyptian
Scenery, Ruins etc, 1833
Henniker,
Frederick, Notes during
a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Sinai and Jerusalem,
1823
A
light hearted traveller, but intelligent and observant on the
Nile and in Sinai.
Heuglin,
Theodor von, Reise in das
Gebiet des weissen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflusse in den Jahren
1862[-]64, 1869
Hill,
S.S., Travels in Egypt and
Syria, 1866
Hogg,
Edward, Visit to Alexandria,
Damascus and Jerusalem, during the successful campaign of Ibrahim
Pasha, 1835
Holthaus,
P.D., Wanderings of a Journeyman
Tailor, during the years 1824 to 1840, translated by William
Howitt, 1842
Hornby,
Emily, A Nile Journal,
1906
Hornby,
Emily, Sinai and Petra:
the Journals of Emily Hornby in 1899 and 1901, 1907
Hornemann,
Friedrich, The Journal of
Frederick Hornemannis Travels, from Cairo to Mourzouk, the Capital
of the Kingdom of Fezzan, in Africa,1802
Hopley,
Howard, Under Egyptian Palms,
or, Three Bachelors, Journeyings on the Nile, 1869
Hoskins,
G.A., Travels in Ethiopia,
above the Second Cataract of the Nile, 1835
Good
research makes this an important book.
Hoskins,
G.A., Visit to the Great
Oasis of the Libyan Desert, 1837
Hoskins,
G.A., Winter in Upper and
Lower Egypt, 1863
Huxley,
Julian, From an Antique
Land, 1954
Irby,
Charles Leonard and James Mangles, Travels
in Egypt and Nubia, Syria and Asia Minor, 1823
Two
lively half-pay naval captains extended the Grand Tour and were
involved in opening the temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel.
Irwin,
Eyles, A Series of Adventures
in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia
and Egypt, 1780
Irwin
returned from India via Egypt in 1777, meeting misfortunes en
route.
Jarvie,
William, Letters home from
Egypt and Palestine, 1903[-]04, 1904
Account
of the travels of an American dentist and his friends privately
printed.
Joliffe,
T.R., Letters from Palestine,
Descriptive of a Tour through Galilee and Judaea to which are
added Letters from Egypt, 2nd edition, 1820
In
1817 Joliffe witnessed the embarkation of the statue of Ramses
II now in the British Museum.
Kennedy,
Douglas, Beyond the Pyramids:
Travels in Egypt, 1996
Kelly,
R. Talbot, Egypt: Painted
and Described, 1902
Watercolourist’s
illustrated record of travel.
King,
Annie, Dr Liddon’s Tour
in Egypt and Palestine in 1886, 1891
Kinglake,
Alexander, Eothen; or, Traces
of Travel brought Home from the East, 1844
Classic
description of Eastern travel.
Kingsford,
W.E., Assouan as a Health
Resort, 1899
Kusel,
Baron Samuel Selig de, An
Englishman’s Recollections of Egypt, 1863 to 1887, 1915
Koning,
Hans, A New Yorker in Egypt,
1976
Laborde,
Léon de, Journey through
Arabia Petrea to Mount Sinai, and the Excavated City of Petra,
with Linant de Bellefonds, 1836
Lamartine,
Alphonse de, Souvenirs,
impressions, pensées et paysages pendant un voyage en Orient,
1832[-]1833, 1935; as Travels in the East, 1839
A
journey with his family through the Levant and into Egypt.
Lane,
Edward, An Account of the
Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, 1836
Lane,
Edward, Description of Egypt,
edited by Jason Thompson, 2000
Lear,
Edward, Selected Letters,
edited by Vivien Noakes, 1988
Legh,
Thomas, Narrative of a Journey
in Egypt and the Country behind the Cataracts, 1816
Leland,
Charles G., The Egyptian
Sketch book, 1874
An
American lawyer’s account of travels up the Nile.
Leo,
John, Geographical Historie of Africa written in
Arabic and Italian, translated by John Pory, 1600
Lepsius,
Richard, Discoveries in
Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai, edited by Kenneth
R.H. Mackenzie, 1852
Lepsius,
Richard, Letters from Egypt,
Ethiopia and the Peninsula of Sinai, translated by Leonora
and Joanna B. Horner, 1853
Account
of the great Prussian expedition of discovery and research.
L’Hôte,
Nestor, Lettres écrites
d’Égypte en 1838 et 1839, and Lettres
d’Égypte 1840[-]41, 1840 and 1841
Light,
Henry, Travels in Egypt,
Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Lebanon and Cyprus, in the Year 1814,
1818
Linant
de Bellefonds, L.M.A., Journey
of Navigation of the Bahr-el-Ablad or the White Nile, 1828
Linant
de Bellefonds, Account of
a Journey into the oases of Upper Egypt, 1822, 1829
Young
French draughtsman Linant came to Egypt with Comte Forbin and
spent the rest of his life travelling and working in the area.
Lindsay,
Lord Alexander, later Earl of Crawford, Letters
on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land, 2 vols, 1838
Lithgow,
William, The Totall Discourse
of the Rare Adventures and Painfull Peregrinations of Long Nineteen
Years Travayles from Scotland to the Most Famous Kingdomes in
Europe, Asia and Affrica, 1614 (part), 1632 (fully)
Claimed
to have travelled from Paris to Palestine and beyond on foot.
Lobo,
Jeronimo, A Short Relation
of the River Nile, of its Source and Current, of its Overflowing
the Campagnia of Egypt till it Runs into the Mediterranean: and
on other Curiosities, Written by an Eye Witness, 1669
Loftie,
W.J., A Ride in Egypt from
Sioot to Luxor, with Notes on the present state and Ancient History
of the Nile Valley, and some Account of the Various ways of making
the Voyage out and home, 1879
Lorimer,
Norma, By the Waters of
Egypt, 1909
A
traveller who became enthralled not by the monuments but by the
gods.
Loti,
Pierre, Egypt, 1909
Eccentric
French naval officer, novelist and travel writer in Egypt.
Lott,
Emmeline, The Grand Pacha’s
Cruise on the Nile in the Viceroy of Egypt’s Yacht, 1869
Observations
by the governess to Pasha Ismael’s child 1863[-]65.
Lucas,
Paul, Troisiène Voyage du
siure Paul Lucas: dans
le Turquie, l’Asie, la Sourie la Palestine, la Haute et a Basse
Égypte, 3 vols, 1719
Lushington,
Mrs Charles (Sarah), Narrative
of a Journey from Calcutta to Europe, by way of Egypt, in the
Years 1827[-]28, 1829
Lynch,
Jeremiah, Egyptian Sketches,
1890
Macgregor,
John, The Rob Roy on the
Jordan, Nile Red Sea, and Gennesareth, 1870
Madden,
R.R., Travels in Turkey,
Egypt, Nubia and Palestine in 1824, 1825, 1826 and 1827, 1830
Madden,
R.R., Egypt and Mohammed
Ali: Illustrative of the condition of his Slaves and Subjects,
1841
Physician
and liberal who lived and travelled first with Henry Salt, later
with the Montefiores. Interesting political insights.
Madox,
John, Excursions in the
Holy Land, Egypt, Nubia, Syria, etc, 2 vols, 1834
Madox
travelled for several years around the Eastern Mediterranean from
a base in Malta.
Mannin,
Ethel, Aspects of Egypt:
Some Travels in the United Arab Republic, 1964
Manning,
Samuel, The Land of the
Pharoahs: Egypt and Sinai: Illustrated by Pen and Pencil,
1875
Marcellus,
Comte de, Souvenirs de l’Orient,
1839
A
diplomat, Marcellus collected the Venus de Milo on his way to
Egypt in 1820.
Marmont,
A.F.L., Duc de Raguse, Voyage
du maréchal duc de Raguse en Hungrie: …eter Égypte, 3 vols,
1837
Martineau,
Harriet, Eastern Life: Past
and Present, 1848
Account
of Martineau’s journey with friends up the Nile, to Sinai and
Petra and onwards.
Maspero,
Gaston, Egypt: Ancient Sites
and Modern Scenes, 1910
Travel
accounts of one of the great French Egyptologists.
Meyer,
Luigi, Views in Egypt …
with Historical Observations … of the Customs of the People,
1804
Sent
by the British ambassador in Constantinople to bring back a record.
Melly,
George, Khartoum and the
Blue and White Niles, 1851
Minutoli,
Wolfradine, Recollections
of Egypt 1820[-]21, 1827
Prussian
countess travelled in Egypt with her husband, but often on her
own.
Merrick,
E.M., With a Palette in
Eastern Palaces, 1899
Millard,
David, A Journal of Travels
in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land during 1841[-]42,
1843
Monconys,
Balthasar de, Voyage en
Égypte de Balthasar de Monconys 1646[-]47, edited by Henry
Amer, 1973
Montagu,
John, 4th Earl of Sandwich, A
Voyage performed by the late Earl of Sandwich round the Mediterranean
in the years 1738[-]39, edited by J. Cooke, 1799
Montefiore,
Moses, Diaries of Sir Moses
and Lady Judith Montefiore, edited by L. Loewe, 1890
Montefiore,
Judith, Private Journal
of a Visit to Egypt and Palestine by Way of Italy and the Mediterranean,
1838
The
Montefiores travelled in the East in the interests of Jewish people.
Montulé,
Édouard, Travels in Egypt
during 1818 and 1819, 1821
Morier,
J.P., Memoir of a Campaign
with the Ottoman Army in Egypt, 1801
First
hand experience of travelling with the Grand Vizier’s army as
part of the British expedition to Egypt.
Nightingale,
Florence, Letters from Egypt:
A Journey on the Nile, edited Anthony Sattin, 1987, from Letters from Egypt, 1834, privately circulated.
Norden,
Frederick, A Compendium
of the Most Approved Modern Travels, vol. 4, The
Travels of F.L. Norden through Egypt and Nubia, 1757
Danish
naval officer sent to Egypt to explore its potential for his king.
North,
Marianne, Recollections
of a Happy Life, 1892
The
botanical painter was in Egypt in 1860s with her father. Her autobiography
was edited by her sister from her letters, and includes the early
travels of this astonishing botanical artist.
Olin,
Stephen, Travels in Egypt,
Arabia Petrea and the Holy Land, 1843
Palmer,
E.H., The Desert of the
Exodus, 1871
Travels
in the Sinai and Arabian Peninsulas.
Parsons,
Abraham, Travels in Asia
and Africa, 1808
Among
much else, Parson provides a complete list of the make up of the
Mecca caravan from Cairo.
Petherick,
John, Egypt, the Soudan
and Central Africa, 1861
Consul
at Khartoum and his wife’s explorations up the Nile.
Petrie,
W.M., A Season in Egypt,
1887
Petrie,
W.F., Ten Years Digging
in Egypt (1881[-]91), 1892
Petrie,
W.F., Seventy Years in Archaeology,
1931
The
archaeologist and professor of Egyptology was also an observant
traveller who chose to travel simply.
Pfeiffer,
Ida, Visit to the Holy Land,
Egypt, and Italy, 1852
Austrian
widow who set off on her travels in her forties.
Pinkerton,
John, A General Collection
of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts
of the World, 17 volumes, vol. xxxx, 1808[-]14
Pococke,
Richard, A Description of
the East, and some other Countries, 1743[-]45
Prime,
William C., Boat Life in
Egypt and Nubia, 1868
Pryce-Jones,
Alan, The Spring Journey,
1931
A
young man travels through the Middle East starting in Egypt.
Pückler-Muskau,
Prince Hermann von, Egypt
under Mehemet Ali, translated by H. Evans Lloyd, 2 vols, 1845
High
living German count’s journey far up the Nile.
Pye-Smith,
Charlie, The Other Nile:
Journeys in Egypt, the Sudan and Ethiopia, 1986
Queiroz,
Jose Eça de, O Egipto: A
notas de viagem [A Portuguese Naturalist in Egypt], 1926
Quibell,
Annie, A Wayfarer in Egypt,
1925
Rawnsley,
Hardwick D., Notes for the
Nile, 1892
Rhind,
A. Henry, Egypt: its Climate,
Character, and Resources as a Winter Resort, 1856
Rhind,
A. Henry, Thebes, its Tombs
and their Tenants, Ancient and Present, including a record of
Excavations in the Necropolis, 1862
Richardson,
R.R., Travels along the
Mediterranean and parts adjacent, in company with the Earl of
Belmore during the years, 1816[-]18, extending as far as the second
Cataract of the Nile, Jerusalem, Damascus, Balbec, etc., 2
vols, 1822
Rifaud,
J.J., Voyage en Égypte,
en Nubie lieux circonvoisins, depuis 1805 jusqu’en 1927, 1829
Rifaud,
J.J., Notice analytique
des voyages de M. Rifaud en diverse contrees et particuliarement
Égypte, n.d.
Account
of life and travels of the sculptor who was the agent of French
Consul General Drovetti.
Roberts,
David, Egypt and Nubia,
from Drawings made on the sSpot, by David Roberts, with Historical
Descriptions by William Brockedon, vol. 3, 1846[-]49
Roberts,
David, The Holy Land: Syria,
Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia, with text by George Croly,
1842[-]49
Roberts,
Emma, Notes of an Overland
Journey through France and Egypt to Bombay, 1841
Robinson,
Edward and Eli Smith, Biblical
Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai, Arabia Petrea, and Egypt:
a Journal of Travels in the year 1838, 3 vols, 1841
Robinson,
George, Three Years in the
East, being the Substance of a Journal written during a Tour and
Residence in Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey in 1829[-]1830,
2 vols, 1831[-]32
Romer,
Isabella, A Pilgrimage to
the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia and Palestine, 2 vols,
1846
Observant
traveller who made a living by travel writing.
Rose,
George (writing as Arthur Sketchley), Mrs
Brown up the Nile, 1869
One
of a series of books about a lower middle class imaginary traveller.
Ruppell,
Eduard, Reisen in Nubia,
Kordofan, unddem Peträischei Arabien, 1829
Makes
a great contribution to the knowledge of the fauna of these regions.
Russell,
Michael, View of Ancient
and Modern Egypt, with an outline of its Natural History,
1831
Russell,
William Howard, A Diary
in the East during the Tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales,
1869
Times
correspondent travelling with the Prince and Princess of Wales.
(see also C. Gray whose account is possibly more observant.))
St
John, Bayle, Adventures
in the Libyan Desert and the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon, 1849
St
John, Bayle, Village Life
in Egypt; with Sketches of the Saïd, 1852
Observations
of life along the Nile.
St
John, James Augustus, Lives
of Celebrated Travellers, 1831
Before
coming to Egypt St John wrote about travellers in the area who
preceded him.
St
John, James Augustus, Egypt
and Mohammed Ali; or, Travels in the Valley of the Nile, 1834
St
John, James Augustus, Egypt
and Nubia: Their Scenery and Their People, 1845
Salt,
Henry, Egypt: A Descriptive
Poem, 1824
British
Consul General’s poetic summary of Egypt.
Sandys,
George, A Relation of a
Journey Begun a.d. 1610: Foure Bookes containing a Prescription
of the Turkish Empire, of Aegypt, of the Holy Land, etc.,
4 vols, 1615
Saulnier,
M., A Journey in Egypt by
M. Lelorrain, and Observations on the Circular Zodiac of Denderah,
1819[-]23
Account
of the stone-mason’s journey to remove the zodiac in the temple
of Dendera.
Savary,
Claude (called Nicolas), Letters
on Egypt, with a Parallel between the Manners of its Ancient and
Modern Inhabitants, 2 vols, 1786
Savigny
de Moncorps, Vicomte, Journal
d’un Voyage en Orient, 1869[-]70, Égypte, Syria et Constantinople,
1873
Seetzen,
Ulrich Jasper, Ulrich Jasper
Seezen’s Reisen durch Syrien, Palästina, Phönicien, die Transjordan-länder,
Arabia Petraea und Unter-Aegypten, 4 vols, 1854[-]59
Senior,
Nassau William, Conversations
and Journals in Egypt and Malta, 2 vols, 1882
Senior’s
influence in Britain makes his comments of interest.
Shaw,
Thomas, Travels; or, Observations
Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, 1738
A
scholarly account well illustrated with maps and plans, and describing
640 species of plants.
Sherer,
Moyle, Scenes and Impressions
in Egypt and Italy, 1824
The
account of an army officer returning from service in India.
Sitwell,
Constance, Lotus and Pyramid,
1928
Sitwell,
Constance, Bright Morning,
1942
Brought
up in the East, Sitwell travelled through Egypt often in a romantic
but delighted dream.
Skinner,
Thomas, Adventures during
a Journey Overland to India, by way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy
Land, 2 vols, 1837
Sladen,
Douglas, Egypt and the English,
1908
Sladen,
Douglas, Queer Things about
Egypt, 1910
Smith,
Alfred Charles, Attractions
of the Nile and its Banks: A Journal of Travels in Egypt and Nubia
Showing Their Attractions to the Archaeologist, the Naturalist
and the General Tourist, 2 vols, 1868
Smith,
Agnes (Mrs Lewis), Eastern
Pilgrims: The Travels of Three Ladies, 1870
Smith,
Jeromevan Crowninshield, A
Pilgrimage to Egypt, embracing a Diary of the Explorations on
the Nile; with observations Illustrative of the Manners, Customs
and Institutions of the People, and of the present condition of
the Antiquities and Ruins, 1852
Smyth,
C. Piazzi, Life and Work
at the Great Pyramid during the months of January, February, March
and April, a.d. 1865, 3 vols, 1867
Sonnini,
C.S., Travels in Upper and
Lower Egypt, translated by Henry Hunter, 1799
Sowden,
William, Another Australian
Abroad: Travel Notes in Egypt and Palestine, 1924[-]25, 1925
Sopwith,
Thomas, Notes of a Visit
to Egypt, by Paris, Lyons, Nismes, Marseilles and Toulos,
1857
Stanhope,
Hester Lucy, Memoirs of
the Lady Hester Stanhope as related by Herself in Conversations
with her Physician, 3 vols, 1845
Lady
Hester spent some weeks in Egypt with her lover Michael Bruce.
Stanley,
Arthur Penrhyn, Sinai and
Palestine, in connection with their History, 1856
Stark,
Freya, East is West,
1945
Stark,
Freya, Dust in the Lion’s
Paw: Autobiography, 1939[-]1946, 1961
Steevens,
G.W., With Kitchener to
Khartum, 1898
Steevens,
G.W., Egypt in 1898,
1898
Brilliant
young war correspondent’s time in Egypt.
Stephens,
J.L., Incidents of Travel
in Egypt, Arabia Petrea, and the Holy Land, by an American,
1837
Stephens,
J.L., Incidents of Travel
in Egypt, Arabia, Patrae, and the Holy Land, 1837; chapters
1[-]12 revised as Notes of Travel in Egypt and Nubia, revised and
enlarged, with an Account of the Suez Canal, 1876
Stuart,
Villiers, Nile Gleanings:
Concerning the Ethnology, History and Art of Ancient Egypt as
revealed by Egyptian Paintings and Bas-reliefs, 1879
Sumner,
Mrs George (Mary Elizabeth), Our
Holiday in the East, 1881
Tafur,
Pero, Travels and Adventures
1435[-]39, translated by Malcolm Letts, 1926
Taylor,
Bayard, Life and Landscapes
from Egypt to the Negro Kingdoms of the White Nile, 1854
Taylor,
Bayard, Egypt and Iceland
in the Year 1874, 1874
American
travel writer who wrote about many areas of the world and twice
visited Egypt.
Thackeray,
William Makepeace, (writing as Mr M.A. Titmarsh), Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, 1846
Account
of the author as an early tourist in the Middle East and Egypt.
Thévenot,
M., Recueil de Voyages de
M. Thevenot, 5 vols, 1681
Travelled
in Egypt 1657[-]59, going up the Nile to Cairo and Saqqara.
Thompson,
Charles, Travels through
Turkey in Asia, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, and Other Parts
of the World, giving an account of Manners, Religion, Polity,
Antiquities and Natural History, 1767
Tilt,
Charles, The Boat and the
Caravan: a Family Tour through Egypt and Syria, 1847
Written
for a young audience; interesting discussions with his dragoman.
Tinne,
Alexine, Travels in the
Region of the White Nile, 1869
Wealthy
Dutch traveller who made extensive travels in Egypt.
Traill,
H.D., From Cairo to the
Soudan Frontier, 1896
Trevisan,
Domenico, Le Voyage d’Outre-Mer
de Jean Thenaud, , suivi la Relation de l’Ambassade de Domenico
Trevisan auprès du Soudan d’Égypte 1512, 1884
Turner,
William, Journal of a Tour
of the Levant, 3 vols, 1820
Includes
a long description of the Eastern Desert.
Twain,
Mark (Samuel Clemens), The
Innocents Abroad; or, the New Pilgrims’ Progress, 1870
The
first American “package tour” of the Old World embraced Egypt.
Tyndale,
Walter, Below the Cataracts,
1907
Tyndale,
Walter, An Artist in Egypt,
1912
Varthema,
Ludovico de, Itinerario
de Ludovico de Varthema Bolognese nello Egypto, nella Suria, nella
Arabia deserta & felice, nella Persia, nella India & nella
Ethiopia. La fede, el vivere & costumi de tutte le prefate
provincie, 1510; as The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema, translated by J. Winter Jones,
edited by G.P.Badger,
1863
Volney,
Constantin-François,
Travels through Egypt and
Syria in the years 1783[-]85, 2 vols, 1787
An
important contribution to observations on Egypt, referred to by
others.
Vyse,
Howard, Operations Carried
Out at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837; with an account of a Voyage
in Upper Egypt, 3 vols, 1840
Salt’s
otherwise unpublished drawings of the unveiled Sphinx and work
at the Pyramids appear. Vyse’s own journey up the Nile is in Volume
1.
Waddington,
George and Barnard Hanbury, Journal
of a Visit to some parts of Ethiopia, 1822
Two
Cambridge gentleman travelled in Egypt above the second Cataract,
at the time of Mehemet Ali’s campaigns to Sennar and Dongola.
Waghorn,
Thomas, Egypt as it is in
1837, 1837
Waghorn,
Thomas, Particulars of an
Overland Journey from London to Bombay by way of the Continent,
Egypt, and the Red Sea, 1831
Waghorn
was the creator of the short-lived but significant overland route
organisation for travellers to and from India.
Walpole,
Robert, Memoirs relating
to European and Aisiatic Turkey, 1817
Walsh,
Thomas, Journal of the late
Campaign in Egypt: including descriptions of that Country,
1803
Warburton,
Eliot, The Crescent and
the Cross, or Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, 1845
Webbe,
Edward, The Rare and most
Wonderful Things which Edward Webbe an Englishman hath seen and
passed in his Troublesome Travails: in the Cities of Jerusalem,
Damasco, Bethlehem and Galely and in the landes of Iewrie, Egypt,
Gracia, Russia, and Prester John, 1590
Webster,
James, Travels through the
Crimea, Turkey and Egypt, performed during the years 1825[-]28,
2 vols, 1830
Wellsted,
James Raymond, Travels in
Arabia, 2 vols, 1838
Wellsted,
James Raymond, Travels to
the City of the Caliphs, along the Shores of the Persian Gulf
and the Mediterranean, 1840
East
India Company naval officer and surveyor who travelled widely
in the Arabian peninsular with the Bedouin.
Whately,
Mary L., Letters from Egypt
to Plain Folks at Home, 1879
Whately,
Mary L., Ragged Life in
Egypt, and More about Ragged Life in Egypt, 1870
Miss
Whately, teacher and missionary, opened schools in Cairo and took
the Gospel to the villagers along the Nile.
Whately,
Richard, On the Present
State of Egypt, compiled from the unpublished journals of recent
Travellers, 1858
Wild,
Johann, Neue Reysbeschreibung
eines Gefangenen Christen Anno 1604, 1613; edited by Georg
A. Narciss, 1964
Story
of the German slave of a Persian traveller in 1610.
Wilde,
W.R., Narrative of a Voyage
to Madeira, Teneriffe and along the shores of the Mediterranean,
including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes,
Telmessus, Cyprus and Greece, 1840
Oscar
Wilde’s physician father accompanied an invalid to Egypt.
Wilkinson,
John Gardner, Modern Egypt
and Thebes: being a description of Egypt, including the Information
required for Travellers in that Country, 1843
The
“father of Egyptology” provided information and advice to other
travellers in this book.
Williams,
Josiah, Life in the Soudan:
Adventures amongst the Tribes, and Travels in Egypt in 1881 and
1882, 1884
Wilson,
John, The Lands of the Bible
Visited and Described, 1847
Wilson,
William Rae, Travels in
Egypt and the Holy Land, 2 vols, 1823
Wolff,
Joseph, Sketch of the Life
and Journal, 1827
Wolff,
Joseph, Journal … Containing
an Account of His Missionary Labours, 1839
Wolff,
Joseph, Travels and Adventures
of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, 2 vols, 1860[-]61
Wolff
was a Jewish convert to the Church of England, and travelled to
bring Christianity back to the East. He married a noble lady who
accompanied him.
Yates,
William Holt, The Modern
History and Condition of Egypt, its Climate, Diseases, and Capabilities;
Exhibited in a personal narrative of Travels in that Country,
1843
Young,
Cuthbert G., A Wayfarer’s
Notes on the shores of the Levant and the Valley of the Nile,
1848
Further
Reading
Ahmed,
Leila, Edward W. Lane: a
Study of His Life and Works and of British Ideas of the Middle
East in the Nineteenth Century, London and New York: Longman,
1978
The
study includes British ideas on the Middle East in the 19th century.
Bierbrier,
M.L. (editor), Who was who
in Egyptology, translated by Warren K. Dawson and Eric P.
Uphill, 3rd edition, London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1995 A
thorough and detailed bibliography of Egyptologists and travellers
in Egypt from early times.
Clayton,
Peter A., The Rediscovery
of Ancient Egypt: Artists and Travellers in the Nineteenth Century,
London: Thames and Hurdson, 1982
Galton,
F.G., Vacation Tourists
and Notes on Travel, Cambridge: Publisher,
1861
A
collection of articles by travellers including xxx.
Gladstone,
Penelope, Travels of Alexine:
Alexine Tinne, 1835[-]1869, London: John Murray, 1970
Biography
of the Durch heiress who won recognition as an explorer by her
journeys with her mother in Egypt and the Sudan.
Gliddon,
George R., An Appeal to
the Antiquaries of Europe on the Destruction of the Monuments
of Egypt, London: Madden, 1849
Gliddon
grew up in Egypt. This is his journey along the Nile, showing
the damage being done to the monuments.
Hay,
Robert, Illustrations of
Cairo, London: Tilt and Bogue, 1840
Hay
lived many years in Egypt, travelling and recording and employing
others to work with him.
Herold,
J. Christopher, Bonaparte
in Egypt, New York: Harper and Row, 1962; London: Hamish Hamilton,
1963
Hilmy,
Prince Ibrahim, The Literature
of Egypt and the Soudan from the earliest times to the year 1885
inclusive (with Supplement), 2 vols, London: Trübner, 1886[-]87
A
magnificent bibliography of books and articles, with fine bibliographical
information.
Jomard,
E.F. (editor), La Description
de l’Égypte, 21 vols, Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1809[-]28
The
records of Napoleon’s savants in Egypt in vast volumes.
Kalfatovic,
Martin R., Nile Notes of
a Howadji: A Bibliography of Travellers’ Tales from Egypt, from
the Earliest Times to 1918, Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow
Press, 1992
MacLaren,
Roy, Canadians on the Nile,
1882[-]98, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press,
1978
How
Canadian voyageurs travelled up the Nile by canoe to effect withdrawal
of British troops.
Manley,
Deborah, The Nile: a Traveller’s
Anthology, London: Cassell, 1991
Mitchell,
R.J., The Spring Voyage:
the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in 1458, London: John Murray, 1963;
New York: C.N. Potter, 1965
Beautifully
researched study of pilgrimages to the Holy Land and Egypt by
people from different lands in 1458.
Morris,
Jan, Cities, London:
Faber and Faber, 1963
Morris,
J., Places, London:
Faber, 1972; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973
Morton,
H.V., Through Lands of the
Bible, London: Methuen, and New York: Dodd Mead, 1938
Morton,
H.V., Middle East, 3rd
edition, London: Methuen, and New York: Dodd Mead, 1941
Travel
writer and Times correspondent, who reported the discovery of
Tutankhamun.
Pick,
Christopher (editor), Egypt:
a Traveller’s Anthology, London: John Murray, 1991
Poole,
Sophia, The English woman
in Egypt, written during a residence there, in 1842[-]44,
2 vols, London: Knight, 1844; Philadelphia: Zieber, 1845
Edward
Lane’s sister spent some years with him in Cairo.
Prescott,
H.F.M., Once to Sinai: the
Further Piligrimage of Friar Felix Fabri, London: Eyre and
Spottiswode, 1957
Felix
Fabri, a Dominican friar, went on pilgrimage from Ulm twice. On
his homeward journey in 1483 he travelled through Egypt.
Sattin,
Anthony, Lifting the Veil:
British Society in Egypt, 1768[-]1956, London: Dent, 1988
Sattin,
Anthony, The Pharoah’s Shadow,
London: Gollance, 2000
Travels
in Egypt seeking the survivals from ancient Egypt to the present.
Saulnier,
M., Notes sur le voyage
de M. Lelorrain en Égypte et observations sur le zodiaque circulaire
de Denderah, Paris: Publisher, 1822
Report
of stone mason Lelorrain’s removal of the zodiac of Dendera on
behalf of Saulnier.
Searight,
Sarah, The British in the
Middle East, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969; New York:
Atheneum, 1970
Starkey,
Paul and Janet Starkey, Travellers
in Egypt, London: Tauris, 1998
Papers
of the first conference of the Association for the Study of Travel
in Egypt and the Near East.
Thompson,
Jason, Sir Gardner Wilkinson
and his Circle, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992
Wilkinson,
J.G., A Handbook for Travellers
in Egypt, London: John Murray, 1846
Wilkinson
used his vast knowledge of Egypt to compile the first full guidebook
to the country.
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