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The Levant

Travel Writing

Bell, Gertrude, The Desert and the Sown, 1907

Vivid late Victorian account of landscapes and people of the Levant.

Blount, Sir Henry, A Voyage into the Levant, 1636; facsimile, 1977

Fascinating if slightly credulous early voyage.

Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, Itinéraire de Paris à Jerusalem, 3 vols, 1811; as Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, during the years 1806 and 1807, translated by Frederic Shoberl, 2 vols, 1811

Readable and romantic, rather than always accurate.

Clarke, Edward Daniel, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, 6 vols, 1810[-]23

Extensive tour with extensive scholarly apparatus by Cambridge antiquarian and mineralogist.

Hakluyt, Richard, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, 2nd edition, 3 vols, 1598[-]1600

Assemblage of earlier voyages to the region.

Kinglake, Alexander, Eothen: or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East, 1844

Classic subjective account detailing personal reactions to the East.

Maundrell, Henry, A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, ad 1697, 1703; facsimile of the 1810 edition, with an introduction by David Howell, 1963

Journey in the Holy Land, praised for its plainness and accuracy.

Montagu, Mary Wortley, Letters, 3 vols, 1763

Lively reactions to the region by a lady traveller.

Moryson, Fynes, An Itinerary, 1617; facsimile, 1971

Interesting descriptions of sixteenth century Levant.

Niebuhr, Carsten, Travels through Arabia and other countries in the East, translated by Robert Heron, 2 vols, 1792

Interesting if sometimes superficial work by a Danish pioneer of eastern travel.

Norden, Frederick Lewis [Frederick Ludvig], Travels in Egypt and Nubia, translated by Peter Templeman, 2 vols, 1757

Among the most thorough and wide-ranging Egyptian travels of its time.

Perry, Charles, A View of the Levant, 1743

Perceptive and well-written account, often avoiding the beaten track in favour of rarely visited areas.

Pococke, Richard, A Description of the East and Some Other Countries, 2 vols, 1743[-]5

Classic scholarly work by an Oxford don.

Sanderson, John, The Travels of John Sanderson in the Levant, 1584[-]1602, edited by Sir William Foster, 1931

A Levant Company travelogue, published by the Hakluyt Society.

Sandys, George, A Relation of a Journey begun An: Dom: 1610: Foure Bookes Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy, and Ilands Adjoyning, 1615

Early travels by a gentleman, wide-ranging in his interests.

Shaw, Thomas, Travels or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, 1738

Another scholarly work, strong on citation of sources rather than original observation.

Stanhope, Lady Hester, Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician, 3 vols, 1845

First-hand stories from a long residence in the Middle East.

Thévenot, Jean de, Relation d’un voyage fait au Levant: dans laquelle il est curicusement traité des estats sujets au Grand Seigneur [in three parts], 1664[-]84; reprinted in 5 vols, 1689 as The Travels of Monsieur de Thévenot into the Levant. In Three Parts ... I. Turkey II. Persia III The East Indies, translated by Archibald Lovell, 1687

Popular but much criticised for its inaccuracy.

Volney, Constantin-François, Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte pendant les ánnes 1783, 1784, et 1785, 1787; as Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784 and 1785, 2 vols, 1787

Travels by the author of the classic meditation on the fate of empires, Les Ruines.

Wood, Robert, The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart, 1753; reprinted, 1971

Wood, Robert, The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis, in Coelosyria, 1757; reprinted, 1971

Detailed, influential and splendidly illustrated antiquarian works.

Further Reading

Cox, Edward Godfrey, A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel, vol. 1.: The Old World, Seattle: University of Washington, 1935, section on the Near East, pp. 201[-]46

Erker-Sonnabend, Ulrich, Das Lüften des Schleiers: Die Orienterfahrung britischer Reisender in Ägypten und Arabien, Hildesheim: Olms, 1987

Greener, Leslie, The Discovery of Egypt, London: Cassell, 1966; New York: Viking, 1967

Lewis, Bernard, The Middle East and the West, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, and London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964

Said, Edward W., Orientalism, New York: Pantheon, and London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978; with new afterword, New York: Vintage, 1994, London: Penguin, 1995

Searight, Sarah, The British in the Middle East, revised edition, London: East[-]West Publications, 1979

Shepherd, Naomi, The Zealous Intruders: The Western Rediscovery of Palestine, London: Collins, and San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987

Stiebing, William H., Uncovering the Past: A History of Archaeology, Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1993; New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994

Withey, Lynn, Grand Tours and Cook’s Tours: A History of Leisure Travel, 1750[-]1915, New York: Morrow, 1997; London: Aurum Press, 1998

Wood, Alfred C., A History of the Levant Company, London: Oxford University Press, 1935; reprinted, London: Frank Cass, and New York: Barnes and Noble, 1964


Levant Company

Travel Writing

Abbott, G.F., Under the Turk in Constantinople: A Record of Sir John Finch’s Embassy, 1674[-]1681, 1920

Burbury, John, A Relation of a Journey of the Right Honourable My Lord Henry Howard from London to Vienna, and thence to Constantinople, 1671

Curzon, Robert, Visits to Monasteries in the Levant, 1849

Drummond, Alexander, Travels through Different Cities of Germany, Italy, Greece and Several Parts of Asia, 1754

Luke, Sir Harry, Cyprus under the Turks 1571[-]1878: A Record based on the Archives of the English Consulate in Cyprus under the Levant Company and After, 1921; facsimile editon, 1969

Maundrell, Henry, A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, ad 1697, 1703; facsimile of the 1810 edition, with an introduction by David Howell, 1963

Montagu, 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 and annotated by Malcolm Jack, with an introduction by Anita Desai, 1993

Rycaut, Sir Paul, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, 1666; reprint of the 1668 edition, 1971

Rycaut, Sir Paul, The Present State of the Greek and Armenian Churches, Anno Christi 1678, 1679; reprinted, 1970

Smith, Thomas, Epistolae duae, quarum altera de moribus ac institutis Turcarum agit: altera septem Asiae Ecclesiarum notitiam continet, 1672; as Remarks upon the Manners, Religion and Government of the Turks: Together with a Survey of the Seven Churches of Asia, As They Now Lye in Their Ruines: And a Brief Description of Constantinople, translated by the author, 1678

Wheler, George, A Journey into Greece ... in Company of Dr Spon of Lyons, 1682

Further Reading

Anderson, Sonia P., An English Consul in Turkey: Paul Rycaut at Smyrna, 1667[-]1678, Oxford: Clarendon Press, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989

Darling, Linda T., “Ottoman Politics through British Eyes: Paul Rycaut’s The Present State of the Ottoman Empire”, Journal of World History, 5/1 (1994): 71[-]97

Davis, Ralph, Aleppo and Devonshire Square: English Traders in the Levant in the Eighteenth Century, London: Macmillan, 1967

Epstein, M., The Early History of the Levant Company, London: Routledge, and New York: Dutton, 1908; reprinted, New York: A.M. Kelley, 1968

Frangakis-Syrett, Elena, The Commerce of Smyrna in the Eighteenth Century (1700[-]1820), Athens: Centre for Asia Minor Studies, 1992

Goffman, Daniel, Britons in the Ottoman Empire 1642[-]1660, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998

Heywood, C.J., “Sir Paul Rycaut: A Seventeenth-Century Observer of the Ottoman State: Notes for a Study” in English and Continental Views of the Ottoman Empire, 1500[-]1800, edited by G.E. von Grunebaum (editor), Los Angeles, California: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1972

Howell, David, Introduction to A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem in A.D. 1697, by Henry Maundrell, facsimile of the 1810 edition, Beirut: Khayats, 1963

Mantran, Robert, “Foreign Merchants and the Minorities in Istanbul during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries” in Christians and Jews in Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society, edited by Benjamin Braude and Bernard Lewis, New York: Holmes and Meier, 1982

Skilliter, S.A., William Harborne and the Trade with Turkey 1578[-]1582: A Documentary Study of the First Anglo-Ottoman Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, for The British Academy, 1977

Steensgaard, Niels, “Consuls and Nations in the Levant from 1570 to 1650” in Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World, edited by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Aldershot, Hampshire and Brookfield, Vermont: Variorum, 1996

Wood, Alfred C., “The English Embassy at Constantinople, 1660[-]1762”, English Historical Review, 40 (1925): 533[-]61

Wood, Alfred C., A History of the Levant Company, London: Oxford University Press, 1935; reprinted, London: Frank Cass, and New York: Barnes and Noble, 1964


Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908[-]

Travel Writing

Tristes Tropiques, 1955; translated into English by John and Doreen Weightman, 1973

Further Reading

Eribon, Didier, Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by Paula Wissing, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991

Hayes, E. Nelson and Tanya Hayes (editors), Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Anthropologist as Hero, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1970

Leach, Edmund, Claude Lévi-Strauss, New York: Viking, 1970, revised edition, 1974; reprinted, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989

Pace, David, Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Bearer of Ashes, London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983

Paz, Octavio, Claude Lévi-Strauss: An Introduction, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1970


Meriwether Lewis
1774[-]1809

Travel Writing

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the Source of the Missouri thence across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Colombia to the Pacific Ocean; Performed during the Years 1804[-]5[-]6; by Order of the Government of the United States, edited by Nicholas Biddle, 2 vols, 1814

The History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark, edited by Elliott Coues, 4 vols, 1893

Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804[-]1806, edited by Ruben Gold Thwaites, 8 vols, 1904[-]05

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, edited by Bernard De Voto, 1953

The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Gary E. Moulton, 12 vols, 1983[-]99

Further Reading

Adams, Henry, History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson, New York: Scribner, 1889; reprinted New York: Viking, and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986

Political history of the early 19th century and Jefferson’s role in western expansion.

Ambrose, Stephen E., Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996

Recent and acclaimed biography.

Dillon, Richard, Meriwether Lewis: A Biography, New York: Coward McCann, 1965

Excellent scholarly biography.

Jackson, Donald (editor), Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, with Related Documents: 1783-1854, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962; 2nd edition, 1978

Documentary record of the expedition’s “paper trail.”


Norman Lewis
1908[-]

Travel Writing

Spanish Adventure, 1935

Sand and Sea in Arabia, 1938

A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Indo-China, 1951

Golden Earth: Travels in Burma, 1952

The Changing Sky: Travels of a Novelist, 1959

Naples 44, 1978

Voices of the Old Sea, 1984

Jackdaw Cake: An Autobiography, 1985

A View of the World: Selected Journalism, 1986

The Missionaries, 1988

To Run across the Sea, 1989

A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India, 1991

An Empire of the East: Travels in Indonesia, 1993

The World, The World, 1996

Further Reading

Iyer, Pico, “Norman Lewis: A Curious Collector of Curiosities” in Iyer’s Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions, New York: Knopf, 1997

Newby, Eric (editor), A Book of Travellers’ Tales, London: Collins, 1985

Perelman, S.J., Don’t Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S. J. Perelman, edited by Prudence Crowther, New York: Viking, 1987

Perelman, a friend of Lewis, provided him entrée to The New Yorker.

Read, Dennis M., entry on Norman Lewis in British Travel Writers, 1940[-]1997, edited by Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits, Detroit: Gale, 1999 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 204)

Zinsser, William, “A Gene for Adventure”, Travel Holiday, (March 1996): 60[-]65, 126[-]27


Carl Linnaeus 1707[-]1778

Travel Writing

(a) by Linnaeus

Öländska och Gothländska Resa, förrättad åhr 1741, med Anmärkningar uti Oeconomien, Naturalhistorien, Antiquiteter etc. med åtskillige figurer, 1745; as Linnaeus’s Öland and Gotland Journey 1741, translated by Marie Åsberg and William T. Stearn, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 5 (1973), 1[-]107; reprinted separately, 1974

Wästt Göta Resa, förrättad år 1746, med Anmärkningar uti Oeconomien, Naturkunnogheten, Antiquiteter, Inwånarnes Seder och Lefnads-Sätt, med tilhörige figurer [Travels in Västergötland], 1747

Skånska Resa på höga Öfwerhetens Befallning förrättad år 1749 med rön och anmärkningar uti Oeconomien, Naturalier, Antiquiteter, Seder, Lefnads-Sätt, med tillhörige Figurer [Travels in Skåne], 1751

Lachesis Lapponica, or A Tour in Lapland, now first published from the original manuscript journal of the celebrated Linnaeus by J.E. Smith, 2 vols, 1811; first Swedish edition as Iter Lapponicum in Carl von Linnés ungdomsskrifter, edited by E. Ährling, 2 series, 1888[-]89; translated and annotated by Peter Graves as The Lapland Journey, 1995

Linnés Dalaresa. Iter Dalekarlicum, edited by Arvid Hj. Uggla, 1953

The first complete version of Linnaeus’ travels in Dalarna, augmenting the posthumously published edition of 1889.

(b) by his followers

Forsskål, Petrus [Pehr], Resa till Lyckliga Arabien: Petrus Forsskåls dagbok 1761[-]1763 [Travels in Arabia: Petrus Forsskåls Diary 1761[-]1763], 1950

Hasselquist, Fredric, Iter Palaestinum eller Resa til Heliga Landet, 1757; as Voyages and Travels in the Levant, in the Years 1749, 50, 51, 52, 1766

Kalm, Pehr, En Resa Til Norra America, På Kongl. Swenska Wetenskaps Academiens befallning, Och Publici kostnad, 3 vols, 1753; 1756, 1761; translated by John Reinhold Forster as Travels into North America, 2 vols, 1770[-]71; edited and revised with new material from Kalm’s diary notes, by Adolph B. Benson as Peter Kalm’s Travels in North America, 2 vols, 1937

Kalm, Pehr, Resejournal över resan till Norra Amerika [Diary of a Journey to North America], 4 vols, 1966[-]88

Löfling, Pehr, Iter Hispanicum, eller, Resa til Spanska Länderna uti Europa och Amerika förättad ifrån år 1751 til år 1756 [Journey to Spain and the Spanish Countries in America], 1758

Sparrman, Anders, Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, Södra Pol-Kretsen och omkring Jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-Landen åren 1772[-]76, 1783; translated by George Forster as A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World; but chiefly into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the Year 1772 to 1776, 2 vols, 1785; facsimile, 2 vols, 1971; new edition, edited by V.S. Forbes and with a revised translation by J. and I. Rudner, 2 vols, 1975[-]77

Sparrman, Anders, Resa omkring Jordklotet i sällskap med Kapit. J. Cook och Hrr. Forster, 2 vols, 1802[-]18; translated by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve and Huldine V. Beamish as A Voyage Round the World with Captain James Cook, with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter, limited edition, 1944; standard edition, 1953

Thunberg, Carl Peter, Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, förrättad åren 1770[-]1779, 4 vols, 1788[-]93; as Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, performed between 1770 and 1779, 4 vols, 1793[-]95

Further Reading

Blunt, Wilfrid, The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus, with assistance of William T. Stearn, London: Collins, 1971

A well-illustrated biography with a useful appendix by W.T. Stearn on Linnean classification and nomenclature.

Fagerstedt, Otto and Sverker Sörlin, “Always Ask the Reason! Documents from the Travels of Linnaeus and His Disciples”, Artes International, 1 (1994): 65[-]83

Fries, Rob E., “De Linneanska ‘apostlarnas’ resor. Commentarer till en karta”, Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift, 33[-]34 (1950-51): 31[-]40

Illustrates the travels of Linnaeus’ apostles with an invaluable map.

Fries, T.M. and J.M. Hulth (editors), Bref och skrifvelser af och till Carl von Linné, 2 parts in 10 volumes, Stockholm, Uppsala and Berlin: Ljus, 1907[-]43

Includes correspondence by Linnaeus to his apostles as well as their extant replies.

Hagberg, Knut, Carl Linnaeus, translated by Alan Blair, London: Jonathan Cape, 1952

Hansen, Thorkild, Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761[-]1767, translated by James McFarlane and Kathleen McFarlane, London: Collins, and New York: Harper and Row, 1964

On Pehr Forsskål’s participation in a Danish expedition to Egypt, The Red Sea and Yemen

Iwao, Seiichi, “C.P. Thunbergs ställning i japansk kulturhistoria”, Svenska Linné­säll­skapets Årsskrift, 36 (1953): 135[-]47

A Japanese account of Thunberg’s place in the cultural history of Japan

Jonsell, Bengt, “Linnaeus and his Two Circumnavigating Apostles”, Proceed­ings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales, 106/1 (1982): 1[-]19

On Daniel Solander and Anders Sparrman

Karsten, Mia C., “Carl Peter Thunberg, an Early Investigator of Cape Botany”, Journal of South African Botany, 5 (1939): 1[-]27, 87[-]155; 12 (1944): 127[-]90

Kerkkonen, Martti, Peter Kalm’s North American Journey: Its Ideological Background and Results, Studia historica 1, Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society, 1957

Koerner, Lisbet, “Linnaeus’ Floral Transplants”, Representations, 47 (1994): 144[-]69

Koerner, Lisbet, “Carl Linnaeus in His Time and Place” in Cultures of Natural History, edited by N. Jardine, J.A. Secord and E.C. Spary, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Koerner, Lisbet, “Purposes of Linnaean Travel: A Preliminary Research Report” in Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature, edited by David Philip Miller and Peter Hanns Reill, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Koerner, Lisbet, Linnaeus: Nature and Nation, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999

A stimulating, wide-ranging study of Linnaeus’ project, including his pupils’ travels, based on a provocative re-reading of available sources in Sweden and elsewhere.

Rauschenberg, Roy Anthony, “Daniel Carl Solander, Naturalist on the ‘Endeavour’”, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 58/8 (1968): 1[-]66

Rydén, Stig, Pehr Löfling: En linnélärjunge i Spanien och Venezuela, Bidrag till Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens historia 6, Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell, 1965

An account of Löfling’s travels and achievements in Spain and Venezuela

Selander, Sten, Linnélärjungar i främmande länder, Stockholm: Bonniers, 1960

Essays on the travels of Pehr Forsskål, Anders Sparrman and Carl Peter Thunberg and their links with Linnaeus.

Sörlin, Sverker, “Scientific Travel: The Linnean Tradition” in Science in Sweden: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1739[-]1989, edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Canton, Massachusetts: Science History Publications, 1989

Stearn, William T., “Botanical Exploration to the Time of Linnaeus”, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 169 (1958): 173[-]96


Jan Huyghen van Linschoten 1563[-]1611

Travel Writing

Reys-Gheschrift van de Navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten, 1595, and Itinerario: Voyage, ofte Schipvaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien, 1596; as Discours of Voyages into ye Easte and West Indies, 1598

The Dutch originals of Linschoten’s account of his Indian journey. There were several editions in the 17th century with varying names.

Navigatio ac itinerarium … in orientalem sive Lusitanorum Indiam: Descriptiones eiusdem terrae ac tractuum littoralium, 1599

The Latin translation of Linschoten’s accounts, published in Frankfurt by the famous brothers de Bry. Another Latin version was published in the Hague.

The Voyage of John Huyghen van Linschoten to the East Indies, From the Old English Translation of 1598. The First Book, Containing his Description of the East, edited by Arthur Coke Burnell and P.A. Tiele, 2 vols, 1885

The translation of 1598 was made by William Phillip.

Beschryvinghe Van de gantsche Custe van Guinea enz, 1596; edited by C.P. Burger Jr and F.W.T. Hunger, 1934

Voyagie ofte Schipvaert … van by Noorden om langes Noorwegen enz. tot voorby de revier Oby, 1601

Linschoten’s account of Barents’ explorations of the North-East Passage.

Further Reading

Aa, A.J. van der, entry on Linschoten in Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden 4, Haarlem: Brederode, 1852

Balen, W.J. van, Naar de indische wonderwereld met Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Amsterdam: Amsterdamsche Boek, 1946

L’Honoré Naber, S.P., entry on Jan Huyghen van Linschoten in Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek 4, Leiden: Sijthoff, 1918

Oaten, Edward Farley, European Travellers in India, London: Kegan Paul, 1909; reprinted, New York: AMS Press, 1971

Parr, Charles McKew, Jan van Linschoten: The Dutch Marco Polo, New York: Crowell, 1964


Linschoten-Vereeniging

Further Reading

Very little has been written on the history of the Linschoten-Vereeniging. From 1908 until 1985 its publisher Martinus Nijhoff held the permanent secretaryship of the society. The archives of the society are incorporated in the publisher’s company archives. The best sources available are the society’s annual reports. These also contain obituaries of important editors and members of the board, many of them leading Dutch scholars.

Bridges, R.C. and P.E.H. Hair (editors), Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846[-]1996, London: Hakluyt Society, 1996

Jaarverslag: Linschoten-Vereeniging [Annual Report of the Linschoten Society], 1909[-]

De Linschoten-Vereeniging. Kort overzicht van haar daden en streven. Een opwekking gericht tot alle ontwikkelde vaderlanders [The Linschoten Society. Short Review of its Works and Objectives. An Appeal Addressed to All Educated Patriots], The Hague: Linschoten-Vereeniging, 1941

Wallis, Helen, “The Great Publication Societies” in Critical Issues in Editing Exploration Texts, edited by Germaine Warkentin, Toronto, Buffalo, New York, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1995


William Lithgow
1582[-]c.1645

Travel Writing

The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painfull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles from Scotland to the most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affrica, 1632; reprinted, 1906

Further Reading

Hadfield, Andrew and John McVeagh (editors), Strangers to that Land: British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the Famine, Gerrard’s Cross: Colin Smythe, 1994

Stoye, John, English Travellers Abroad, 1604[-]1667: Their Influence in English Society and Politics, London: Jonathan Cape, 1952; revised edition, New Haven, Connecticut and London: Yale University Press, 1989


David Livingstone 1813[-]1873

Travel Writing

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, 1857

Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858[-]1864, 1865

Further Reading

Helly, Dorothy O., Livingstone’s Legacy: Horace Waller and Victorian Mythmaking, Athens: Ohio State University Press, 1987

Jeal, Tim, Livingstone, London: Heinemann, and New York: Putnam, 1973

Pachai, Bridglal (editor), Livingstone: Man of Africa, Memorial Essays 1873[-]1973, London: Longman, 1973

Schapera, I. (editor), Livingstone’s African Journal, 1853[-]1856, London: Chatto and Windus, and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963

Schapera, I. (editor), Livingstone’s Private Journals, 1851[-]1853, London: Chatto and Windus, 1960

Seaver, George, David Livingstone: His Life and Letters, London: Lutterworth, and New York: Harper, 1957

Stanley, Henry M., How I Found Livingstone, London: Sampson Low, and New York: Scribner Armstrong, 1872; reprinted, New York: Arno Press, 1970

Waller, Horace (editor), The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to his Death, 2 vols, London: John Murray, 1874

Wallis, J.P.R. (editor), The Zambesi Expedition of David Livingstone, 1858[-]1863, 2 vols, London: Chatto and Windus, 1956


Jerónimo Lobo 1593[-]1678

Travel Writing

P. Hieronymi eines Jesuiten in Portugal neue Beschreibung und Bericht von der wahren Beschanssenheit, 1670; as Voyage historique d’Abyssinie, du R.P. Jerome Lobo de la Compagnie de Jesus. Traduite du Portugais, continuée et augmentée de plusieurs dissertations, lettres et memoires, translated as a condensed version by Joachim Le Grand, 1728; as A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Father Jerome Lobo, a Portuguese Missionary. Containing the History, Natural, Civil, and Ecclesiastical of that Remote and Unfrequented Country, continued down to the beginning of the Eighteenth Century: with Fifteen Dissertations on various subjects, relating to the Antiquities, Government, Religion, Manners, and Natural History of Abyssinia by M. Le Grand, translated from the French by Samuel Johnson, 1735; 2nd edition, 1789; as A Voyage to Abyssinia, edited by Joel J. Gold, 1985

A Short Relation of the River Nile, of its sourse and current; of its overflowing the campagnia of Ægypt, till it runs into the Mediterranean, and of other curiosities: written by an eye-witnesse, who lived many years in the chief kingdoms of the Abyssine Empire, translated by Peter Wyche, 1669; 2nd edition, 1673; 3rd edition, 1791; 4th edition, 1798

Itinerário, e outros escritos inéditos, with an introduction and notes by Father Manuel Gonçalves da Costa, 1971; as The «Itinerário» of Jerónimo Lobo, translated by Donald M. Lockhart, with an introduction and notes by C.F. Beckingham, 1984

Further Reading

Almeida, Manuel de, “Historia Æthiopiæ” in Rerum Æthiopicarum Scriptores Occidentales Inediti a Sæculo XVI ad XIX, vols 5[-]7, edited by Camillo Beccari, Rome: Casa Editrice Italiana, 1907[-]08; reprinted in Brussels: Culture et Civilisation, 1969; some chapters were translated and edited by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford in Some Records of Ethiopia 1593[-]1646, London: Hakluyt Society, 1954

The author was also a Jesuit missionary; he went to Ethiopia two years before Lobo.

Beckingham, C.F., “The Travels of Jerónimo Lobo”; “Jerónimo Lobo: His Travels and His Book” reprinted in his Between Islam and Christendom: Travellers, Facts, and Legends in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, London: Variorum, 1983

Cabreira, José de, Naufrágio da Nau Nossa Senhora de Belém [Wreck of the Ship Our Lady of Belém], Lisbon: Pedro de Craesbeeck, 1636; as “Naufrágio da Nau Nossa Senhora de Belém em 1635” in Viagens e naufrágios célebres dos séculos XVI, XVII e XVIII [Famous Travels and Shipwrecks of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries], edited by Damião Peres, vol. 3, Oporto: Oliveira, 1938; summarized by James Duffy in his Shipwreck & Empire, Being an Account of Portuguese Maritime Disasters in a Century of Decline, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1955

The narrative of Our Lady of Belém shipwreck has not been included among those collected and published by Bernardo Gomes de Brito, under the title História trágico-marítima [Tragic History of the Sea] in 1735[-]36. Some of those accounts were edited from the original Portuguese by Charles R. Boxer. The account of the wreck of the ship in which Lobo had embarked on his return journey from India in 1635, was written by its captain.

Costa, Manuel Gonçalves da, “Jerónimo Lobo Reveals Ethiopia to Europe in the Middle of the 17th Century” in Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Ethiopian Studies [1966], 3 vols, Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, 1969[-]70

Mendes, Afonso, “Expeditionis Æthiopicae” in Rerum Æthiopicarum Scriptores Occidentales Inediti a Sæculo XVI ad XIX, vols 8[-]9, edited by Camillo Beccari, Rome: Casa Editrice Italiana, 1908[-]09; reprinted in Brussels: Culture et Civilisation, 1969

The author was the last Catholic Patriarch of Ethiopia before the edict of expulsion, ordered by the negus Fasil; Lobo travelled with him from Dio to the high plains of Ethiopia in 1625; later, in 1634, they both went under the Turks’ bondage.

Sandoval, Alonso de, De instauranda Aethiopum salute, also titled Naturaleza, policia sagrada i profana, costumbres i ritos, disciplina i catechismo evangelico de todos Etiopes, por el P. Alonso de Sandoval natural de Toledo, de la Compañia de Jesus, rector del Collegio de Cartagena de las Indias, Seville: Francisco de Lira, 1627

Sandoval met Lobo when he went incidentally to Cartagena de las Indias.

Telles, Balthazar, [S.I.], The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia … Collected, and Historically Digested by F. Balthazar Tellez, London: Knapton Bell and Baker, 1710


Willem Lodewycksz, before 1565[-]1604

Travel Writing:

D’Eerste Boeck: Historie van Indien, waer inne verhaelt is de avontueren die de Hollandtsche Schepen bejegent zijn, 1598; as Prima pars descriptionis Itineris navalis in Indiam Orientalem, earumque rerum quae navibus Batavis occurrerunt; as Premier Livre de l’Histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les Hollandais, 1598

Iournael van de Reyse der Hollandtsche Schepen gedaen in Oost-Indien. Middelburg, Barent Langenes, with an appendix; Verhael vande Reyse by de Hollandsche Schepen gedaen naer Oost Indien Middelburg, Barent Langenes, 1597; as The Description of a Voyage Made by Certaine Ships of Holland into the East Indies, translated by William Philips, 1598, together with a translation of the appendix of the “Journael”, as An addition to the Sea Iournal (...).

Many further editions of Willem Lodewycksz’s account were published in 17th and 18th centuries, mainly in Dutch, German and French.

Bry, Theodor de, Begin ende Voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctrooyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie (contains Lodewycksz ), edited by Isaac Commelin Amsterdam, 2 vols, 1645; as A Collection of Voyages undertaken by the Dutch East India Company, 1702

No modern English scholarly edition of Willem Lodewycksz is available. The best edition and study of the Dutch originals was published by Rouffaer and IJzerman in the series of the Linschoten-Vereeniging (see below).

Further Reading

Beekman, E.M., Troubled Pleasures: Dutch Colonial Literature from the East Indies, 1600[-]1950, Oxford: Clarendon Press, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996

Israel, Jonathan, The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477[-]1806, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995

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

Mollema, Jarig Cornelis, De Eerste Schipvaart der Hollanders naar Oost-Indië, 1595[-]1597 [First Navigation of the Dutch to the East-Indies 1595[-]1597], The Hague: Nijhoff, 1936

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

Roeper, Vibeke and Diederick Wildeman, Reizen op papier: journalen en reisverslagen van Nederlandse ontdekkingsreizigers, kooplieden en avonturiers [Travels on Paper, Journals and Travel Accounts by Dutch Discoverers, Merchants and Adventurers], Amsterdam: Vereeniging Nederlandsch Historisch Schepvaart Museum, 1996

Roeper, Vibeke and Diederick Wildeman (editors), Om de Zuid: de eerste schipvaart naar Oost-Indié onder Cornelis de Moutman, 1575[-]1597, Nijmegan: SUN, 1997

Rouffaer, G.P. and J.W. Ijzerman (editors), De eerste schipvaart der Nederlanders naar Oost-Indië onder Cornelis de Houtman [First Navigation of the Dutch to the East Indies under the Command of Cornelis de Houtman], 3 vols, The Hague: Nijhoff, 1915[-]29

Workd issued by the Linschoten Vereeniging vol. 7


Logbooks

Further Reading

Knight, R.J.B. (editor), Guide to the Manuscripts in the National Maritime Museum, 2 vols, London: Mansell, 1977[-]80

Stein, Douglas L., American Maritime Documents, 1776[-]1860, Mystic, Connecticut: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1992

Waters, D.W., The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times, London: Hollis and Carter, and New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1958

Main source for early practice; refers to other countries.


London

Travel Writing

Archibald, Umrisse einer Reise nach London, Amsterdam und Paris im Jahr 1817, 1821

Pseudonym of O.W.K. von Röder von Bomsdorf.

Arendt, Eduard, Tagebuch an Bord Sr. Majestät Dampf-Korvette “Danzig” auf der Reise von Danzig nach London, Konstantinopel, Athen, Syra 1853/54, 1998

Barjaud, J.B. and C.P. Landon, Description de Londres et de ses édifices, 1811

Barron, Caroline, Christopher Coleman and Claire Gobbi (editors), “The London Journal of Alessandro Magno, 1562”, London Journal, 9 (1983) 136-52

Beeverell, James, The Pleasures of London, translated and edited by W.H. Quarrell, 1940

Bemerkungen auf einer Reise von Leipzig bis London, 1783

Berlioz, Hector, Les Soirées de l’orchestre, 1853; edited by Léon Guichard, 1968

Bleackley, Horace William, Casanova in England, Being the Account of the Visit to London in 1763-4 of Giacomo Casanova, 1923

Blumenfeld, R.D., In the Days of Bicycles and Bustles, 1930

Booth, Abraham, Een Dienaer der Oost-indische compagnie te Londen in 1629: ounnael van Abram Booth en zijn Descriptie van Engelandt, edited by A. Merens, 1942

Bornstedt, Adelbert von, Reise von London über Paris, Lyon, Avignon, Aix, Nizza, Turin, den Simplon und einen Theil der Schweiz, 1835

Boswell, James, Boswell’s London Journal, 1762[-]1763, edited by Frederick A. Pottle, 1950.

Brand, Wilhelm F., London Life Seen with German Eyes, 1887; 2nd edition, 1902

Bredberg, Sven, Greifswald[-]Wittenberg[-]Leiden[-]London: Västgötamagistern Sven Bredbergs Resedagbok 1708[-]1710, edited by Henrik Sandblad, 1982

Bretschneider, Heinrich Gottfried von, Reise … nach London und Paris, 1817

Burton, Richard, Historical Remarques and Observations of the Ancient and Present State of London and Westminster … till the Year 1681, 1681

Pseudonym for Nathaniel Crouch.

Byrd, William, The London Diary, 1717[-]1721, and Other Writings, edited by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling, 1958

Camba, Julio, Londres: Impressiones de un español, 1916.

Casanova, Giacomo, Casanova in London, edited and with an introduction by Martin Green, 1969

Chiang Yee, The Silent Traveller in London, 1938; reprinted, 2002

Christern, Johann Wilhelm, Pudelnärrische Reise nach London, 1851

Collis, John Stewart, An Irishman’s England, 1937

Conseil Municipal de Paris, Compte rendu officiel du voyage du Lord-Maire et de la Corporation de la Cité de Londres à Paris en 1906 et du Voyage à Londres du Conseil Municipal de Paris en 1907, 1908

Dannenberg, Louis, Unsere Reise nach London zur Industrie-Weltausstellung den 12. Mai 1851, 2000

Dostoevskii, Fedor, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, translated by R.L. Renfield, 1955

Equiano, Olaudah, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, 1789

Fabian, Jenny and Johnny Byrne, Groupie, 1969

Fischer, Christian August, Reise von Livorno nach London, im Sommer und Herbste 1818, 1819

Fischer, Johann C., Tagebuch einer im Jahr 1814 gemachten Reise über Paris nach London, 1816

FitzStephen, William, “Description of London” translated by H.E. Butler, in Norman London: An Essay by F.M. Stenton, 1934; also in The Survey of London, by John Stow, edited by H.B. Wheatley, 1970

Fontane, Theodor, Ein Sommer in London, 1854

Frank, Joseph, Reise nach Paris, London und einem grossen Theile des übrigen Englands und Schottlands in Beziehung auf Spitäler, Versorgungshäuser, 1804

Gaaz, A.W., Berlioz in London, 1950

Glinert, Ed, A Literary Guide to London, 2000

González Suárez, Federico, Recuerdos de un viaje ó Cartas acerca de Roma, España, Londres y Colombia, 2nd edition, 1901

González Velasco, Pedro, Museo Dupuytren, de Paris, erígido a expensas del Estado por los desvelos de D. Mateo Orfila: Analízado en su reciente viaje al extranjero ... con una reseña de los Gabinetes de Paris y Londres, 1854

Grosley, Pierre Jean, A Tour to London; or, New Observations on England and Its Inhabitants, translated by Thomas Nugent, 1772

Hammond, Eleanor (editor), “London Lickpenny”, Anglia, 20 (1898): 404-20

Henderson, Helen W., A Loiterer in London, 1824

Hentzner, Paul, Paul Hentzer’s Travels in England during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, translated by Richard Bentley, edited by Horace Walpole, 1797

Howell, James, Londinopolis: An Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London [and] Westminster, 1657

Huard, Charles, Londres, comme je l’ai vu, 1908

Huygens, Lodewijck, The English Journal, 1651[-]1652, edited and translated by A.G.H. Bachrach, and R.G. Collmer, 1982

James, Henry, The Letters, edited by Leon Edel, 4 vols, 1974-84; Selected Letters, 1987

Jaumann, Ignaz von, Reise nach London und Paris im Jahre 1850, 1851

Join-Lambert, A., Londres et les Anglais en 1771: d’après les notes de voyage de MM. Rondeaux de Sétry et de Montbray et d’après l’ouvrage de Grosley, Paris, 1890

Jokl, Anna Maria, Die Reise nach London, 1999

Josephy, Helen and Mary Margaret McBride, London is a Man’s Town (But Women Go There), 1930

Kalm, Pehr, Kalm’s Account of His Visit to England on His Way to America in 1748, translated by Joseph Lucas, 1892

Kent, William, Mine Host London: A Chronicle of Distinguished Visitors, 1948

Kerr, Alfred, Newyork und London, Stätten des Geschicks: zwanzig Kapitel nach dem Weltkrieg, 1923.

Kirwan, Daniel Joseph, Palace and Hovel; or, Phases of London Life, Being Personal Observations of an American in London by Day and Night, 1870; edited by A. Allan, 1963

Kraemer, Ludwig, Technische Notizen auf einer Reise nach Amsterdam, London und Paris im Jahre 1829, 1830

Kupsch, Joachim, Die Reise nach London: ein Haydn-Roman, 1963

La Roche, Sophie von, Sophie in London, 1786: Being the Diary of Sophie von La Roche, translated by Clare Williams, 1933

Le Doulcet, Louis Adolphe, Marquis de Pontécoulant, Douze Jours à Londres: vyage d’un mélomane à travers l’Exposition Universelle, 1862

Lehmann, John (editor), Coming to London, by William Plomer et al., 1957

Leroy, Alfred, Londres, et la vie Anglaise, 1946

Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, Three Tours through London in the Years 1748, 1776, 1797, 1941

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, Lichtenberg’s Visits to England, as Described in His Letters and Diaries, translated and edited by Margaret L. Mare and W.H. Quarrell, 1938

Lucas, E.V., A Wanderer in London, 1906; 28th edition, 1931

Lucas, Victor, Tolstoy in London, 1979

Mackworth, Cecily, English Interludes: Mallarmé, Verlaine, Paul Valéry, Valery Larbaud in London, 1860-1912, 1974

Malabari, Behramji M., The Indian Eye on English Life; or, Rambles of a Pilgrim Reformer, 1893

Malfaiti, C.V. (translator and editor), Two Italian Accounts of Tudor England 1953

Contains “A Journey to London in 1497” by Andrea Francisci and an anonymous “A Picture of English Life under Queen Mary”.

Markino, Yoshio, A Japanese Artist in London, 1910

Mayhew, Henry and George Cruikshank, 1851; or, The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys and Family, Who Came up to London to “Enjoy Themselves”, and to See the Great Exhibition, 1851

Meidinger, Heinrich, Reisen durch Grossbritannien und Irland, 1828

Melville, Herman, Journal of a Visit to London and the Continent, 1849[-]1850, edited by E.M. Metcalf, London: Cohen, 1948

Messerschmid, Mich. F., Reise nach London und Paris zur Zeit der großen allgemeinen Industrie-Ausstellung zu London, 1852

Morton, H.V., In Search of London, 1951

Muralt, Béat Louis de, Lettres sur les Anglois et les François et sur les Voyages, 1725, edited by Charles Gould, 1933; translated as Letters Describing the Characters and Customs of the English and French Nations, with a Curious Essay on Travelling, 1726

Najaf Koolee, Prince of Persia, Journal of a Residence in England and of a Journey from and to Syria, translated by A.Y. Kayat, 2 vols, 1839; reprinted, 1971

Neumann, Philipp, Freiherr von, The Diary of Philipp von Neumann, 1819 to 1850, edited and translated by E. Beresford Chancellor, 1928

O Ful, Tru, un Pertikler Okeawnt o Bwoth Wat Aw Seed un Wat Aw Yerd, We Gooin too th’ Greyt Eggsshibishun, e Lundun, 1851; 3rd edition, 1856

Obraztsov,Sergei, On What I Saw, Learned and Understood during Two Visits to London, translated by F.T. MacDermott, 1957

Ocansey, John E., African Trading; or, The Trials of William Narh Ocansey, 1881

Orwell, George, Down and Out in Paris and London, 1933

Pillet, René Martin, L’Angleterre vue à Londres et dans ses provinces: pendant un séjour de dix années, dont six comme prisonnier de guerre, 1815; translated as Views of England: During a Residence of Ten Years, Six of Them as a Prisoner of War, 1818

Platter, Thomas, Thomas Platter’s Travels in England, 1599, translated by Clare Williams, 1937

Pückler-Muskau, Fürst von, A Regency Visitor: The English Tour of Prince Pückler-Muskau, Described in His Letters, 1826-1828, translated by Sarah Austin, edited by E.M. Butler, 1957

Razzell, Peter (editor), The Journals of Two Travellers in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England: Thomas Platter and Horatio Busino, 1995

Richter, Theodor Friedrich Maximilian, Reise von London nach China und Rückkehr nach England, 1850

Rivera, Agustín, Visita a Londres, hecha en el mes de Agosto de 1867, 2nd edition, 1874

Roe, F.C. (editor), French Travellers in Britain, 1800-1926: Impressions and Reflections, 1928

Rye, William Brenchley (editor), England as Seen by Foreigners in the Days of Elizabeth and James I: Comprising Translations of the Journals of the Two Dukes of Wirtemberg in 1592 and 1610, with Extracts from the Travels of Foreign Princes and Others, 1865; reprinted, 1967

Salterain y Herrera, Eduardo de, Perfil de Viaje, A Bordo: Egipto, Palestina, Siria, Constantinopla, Grecia, Italia, Paris, Londres, 1932

Saussure, César de, A Foreign View of England in the Reigns of George I and George II: The Letters of M. César de Saussure, translated by Madame van Muyden, 1902

Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, Die Reise nach Frankreich und England im Jahre 1826, edited by Reinhard Wegner, 1990

Schopenhauer, Arthur, Reisetagebücher aus den Jahren 1803[-]1804, edited by Charlotte von Gwinner, 1923

Schopenauer, Johanna, A Lady Travels: Journeys in England and Scotland, from the Diaries of Johanna Schopenhauer, translated and edited by Ruth Michaelis-Jena and Willy Merson, 1988

Selvon, Samuel, The Lonely Londoners, 1956

Sieberling, Grace, Monet in London, 1988

Simond, Louis, Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain during the Years 1810 and 1811, 1815; 2nd edition, 1817

Simond, Louis, Voyage à Londres 1810-1811, suivi de Lettrés extraités de la Correspondance anglaise de Tocqueville et Nassau William Senior, 1992

Sinclair, Iain, Lights out for the Territory: 9 Excursions in the Secret History of London, 1997

Souguenet, Léon, À la découverte de Londres: notes d’un explorateur français au Xxe siècle, 1909

Southey, Robert, Letters from England (as Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella), 3 vols, 1807

Starkie, Enid, Arthur Rimbaud, 1938

Stow, John, The Survey of London, 1598; edited by H.B. Wheatley, 1970

Sturtevant, Katherine, Our Sisters’ London: Feminist Walking Tours, 1990

Promenades dans Londres; ou, L’aristocratie et les prolétaires anglais, 1840, reprinted 1842; edited by François Bédarida, 1978; as Flora Tristan’s London Journals: A Survey of London Life in the 1830s, translated by Dennis Palmer and Giselle Pincetl, 1980; also as The London Journal of Flora Tristan, 1842; or, The Aristocracy and the Working Class of England, translated by Jean Hawkes, London: Virago, 1982

Tyau, Min-chie’en Tuk Zung, London through Chinese Eyes; or, My Seven and a Half Years in London, 1920

Uffenbach, Zacharias Konrad von, London in 1710: From the Travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, translated and edited by W.H. Quarrell and Margaret Mare, 1934

Vald[s2]tejna, Zden[e5]k, The Diary of Baron Waldstein, a Traveller in Elizabethan England, edited by G.W. Groos, 1981

Vanbrugh, John, The Provoked Husband; or, A Journey to London, completed by Colley Cibber, 1728; translated into German as Der aufgebrachte Ehemann, oder eine Reise nach London, 1748

Verne, Jules, Voyage à reculons en Angleterre et en Ecosse, edited by Christian Robin, 1989; translated as Backwards to Britain, 1992

Villafranca, Faustino (editor), Correspondencia de un viaje desde Filipinas á Europa por Sicilia, Nápoles, Roma, Italia, Londres y España, 1870

Voltaire, Letters Concerning the English Nation, edited and with an introduction by Nicholas Cronk, 1994

Wey, Francis, Londres, il y a cent ans, 1859

Further Reading

Ackroyd, Peter, London: The Biography, London: Chatto and Windus, 2000; New York: Talese, 2001

Adams, W.J., “Victorian and Edwardian Guide Books of London”, Book and Magazine Collector, 12 (1985): 50[-]55

Ashton, Rosemary, Little Germany: Exile and Asylum in Victorian England, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1986

Booth, A., The Stranger’s Intellectual Guide to London, for 1839[-]40: Containing an Account of the Literary and Scientific Societies and Institutions; Exhibitions and Curiosities; Museums, Libraries, Public and Private Collections; Botanical, Horticultural, and Zoological Gardens, &c. &c. of the Metropolis, London: Henry Hooper, 1839

Elsasser, Robert, Über die politischen Bildungsreisen der Deutschen nach England (vom achtzenten Jahrhundert bis 1815), Heidelberg: Winter, 1917

Edwards, Paul and David Dabydeen (editors), Black Writers in Britain, 1760[-]1890, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991

Harris, Michael R.A., “London Guidebooks before 1800”, in Maps and Prints: Aspects of the English Booktrade, edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris, Oxford: Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1984

Hulse, James W., Revolutionists in London: A Study of Five Unorthodox Socialists, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970

Gál, István, Hungary and the Anglo-Saxon World, Budapest: Officina, 1944

Jones, Ethel, Le Voyageurs français en Angleterre de 1815 à 1830, Paris: Boccard, 1930

Kenin, Richard, Return to Albion: Americans in England, 1760[-]1940, New York: Holt Rinehart, 1979

Landa, Louis A., “London Observed: The Progress of a Simile”, Philological Quarterly, 54 (1975): 275[-]78

Letts, Malcolm, As the Foreigners Saw Us, London: Methuen, 1935

Lockwood, Alison, Passionate Pilgrims: The American Traveler in Great Britain, 1800[-]1914, Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, and London: Cornwall Books, 1981

Matheson, P.E., German Visitors to England, 1770[-]1795, and Their Impressions, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930

Merriman, Nick (editor), The Peopling of London: Fifteen Thousand Years of Settlement from Overseas, London: Museum of London, 1993

Parkes, Joan, Travel in England in the Seventeenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925

Porter, Roy, London: A Social History, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995

Prescott, Lynda, “ ‘Coming to London’ in the 1950s”, Wasafiri, 35 (2002)

Reed, Adam, “City of Details: Interpreting the Personality of London”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8 (2002): 127[-]41

Robson-Scott, W.D., German Travellers in England, 1400[-]1800, Oxford: Blackwell, 1953

Smith, Edward, Foreign Visitors in England, and What They Have Thought of Us: Being Some Notes on Their Books and Their Opinions during the Last Three Centuries, London: Stock, 1889

Webb, David, “For Inns a Hint, for Routes a Chart: The 19th Century London Guidebook”, London Journal, 6 (1980): 207[-]14

Webb, David, “Guide Books to London before 1800: A Survey”, London Topographical Record, 26 (1990): 138[-]52

Weintraub, Stanley, The London Yankees: Portraits of American Writers and Artists in England, 1894[-]1914, New York: Harcourt Brace, and London: W.H. Allen, 1979

Wilson, F.M. (editor), Strange Island: Britain through Foreign Eyes, 1395[-]1940, London: Longman, 1955


Barry Lopez
1945[-]

Travel Writing

Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter: Coyote Builds North America, 1977

Of Wolves and Men, 1978

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, 1986

Crossing Open Ground, 1988

Crow and Weasel, 1990

The Rediscovery of North America, 1990

About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory, 1998

Further Reading

Aton, Jim, “An Interview with Barry Lopez”, Western American Literature, 21/1 (Spring 1986): 3[-]17

Lopez talks about his writing process, how travel informs his work, and the significance of landscape in western American literature.

Bonetti, Kay, “An Interview with Barry Lopez”, Missouri Review, 11/3 (1988): 59

[-]77

Lopez discusses the connection between his early migrations and sense of place, and his identity as a writer of fiction and nonfiction.

“Ecology and the Human Imagination” in Writing Natural History: Dialogues with Authors, edited by Edward Lueders et al., Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1989

Lopez and scientist E.O. Wilson discuss the synthesis between the sciences and humanities in the genre of nature writing.

Evans, Alice, “Leaning into the Light: An Interview With Barry Lopez”, Poets and Writers Magazine, 22/2 (March/April 1994): 63[-]79

An interview emphasizing the importance of Lopez’s travels in his research and writing.

Holland, Patrick and Graham Huggan, Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998

A critical look at how contemporary travel writing perpetuates and challenges ethnocentrically superior attitudes; includes Lopez in a discussion of Arctic travel and nature/travel writing.

Lopez, Barry, “Caring for the Woods”, Audubon, 97 (March/April 1995): 58[-]60

Explains his own process and the larger cultural need to cultivate a sense of place.

Lopez, Barry, Charles Wright and Maxine Hong Kingston, “A Chinese Garland”, North American Review, 273 (September 1998): 38[-]42

Transcript of remarks by Lopez, Wright, and Kingston from a writing conference in China in which Lopez speaks explicitly as “a writer who travels”.

Marx, Douglas, “Barry Lopez: ‘I Am a Writer Who Travels’”, Publishers Weekly, 26 September (1994): 41[-]42

Addresses Lopez’s life-long patterns of travel and the recurring themes of landscape and culture in his writing.

O’Connell, Nicholas, “Barry Lopez” in At the Field’s End: Interviews with Twenty Pacific Northwest Writers, Seattle: Madrona, 1987

Examines Lopez’s interest in learning from indigenous cultures and writing about wilderness and western landscapes.

Paul, Sherman, “Making the Turn: Rereading Barry Lopez” in his For Love of the World: Essays on Nature Writers, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992

Analyzes the major themes in Lopez’s fiction and nonfiction, including Of Wolves and Men, Arctic Dreams, and Crossing Open Ground.

Ross, Daniel W., “Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams: Looking into a New Heart of Darkness”, The CEA Critic, 54/1 (1991): 78[-]86

Compares Arctic Dreams with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in their exploration of the destructive effects of colonialism.

Rueckert, William H., “Barry Lopez and the Search for a Dignified and Honorable Relationship with Nature” in Earthly Words: Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environmental Writers, edited by John Cooley, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994

Analyzes major themes in Lopez’s work with special attention to his collection of short stories, River Notes.

Slovic, Scott, “‘A More Particularized Understanding’: Seeking Qualitative Awareness in Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams” in his Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing: Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992

Places Lopez in the Thoreauvian tradition of American nature writing and examines how his role as traveller and storyteller inspires environmental awareness.

Tallmadge, John, entry on Barry Lopez in American Nature Writers, edited by John Elder, 2 vols, New York: Scribner, 1996

Includes biographical information with an in-depth survey of Lopez’s major works of fiction and nonfiction.

Todd, Trish, “Barry Lopez Recalls His Arctic Dreams”, Publishers Weekly, (11 October 1985): 35[-]36

Discusses Lopez’s adventures and experiences informing Arctic Dreams and its major themes.

Wild, Peter, Barry Lopez, Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, (Western Writers Series) 1984

Focuses on Lopez’s early works of fiction and Of Wolves and Men.


Pierre Loti 1850[-]1923

Travel Writing

Au Maroc, 1890; as Morocco, translated by W.P. Baines, 1914

Le Désert, 1895; as The Desert, translated by Jay Paul Minn, 1993

La Galilée [Galilee], 1895

Jérusalem, 1895; as Jerusalem, translated by W.P. Baines, 1915

Les derniers Jours de Pékin, 1902; as Last Days of Pekin, translated by Myrta L. Jones, 1902

L’Inde (sans les Anglais), 1903; as India, translated by George A.F. Inman, edited by Robert Harborough Sherard, 1906

Vers Ispahan [Towards Esfahan], 1904

Un pélerin d’Angkor, 1912; as Siam, translated by W.P. Baines, 1913; as Pilgrimage to Angkor, edited with an introduction by Michael Smithies, 1996

Further Reading

Blanch, Lesley, Pierre Loti: Portrait of an Escapist, London: Collins, and San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1983

Briquet, Pierre Eric, Pierre Loti et l’Orient, Neuchâtel: Editions de la Baconnière, 1945

Ekström, Per G., Evasions et désespérances de Pierre Loti, Gothenberg: Gumperts, 1953

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