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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
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,
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