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Jean Mabillon 1632[-]1707
Travel Writing
Itinerarium Burgundicum, 1685; in volume 2 of Ouvrages posthumes,
3 vols, 1724
Itererarium Germanicum, first published as Libri Germanicum,
vol. 4 of Vetera analecta
[Collections of Anciant Writings], 1685
Iter Italicum,
1686
Further Reading
Barret-Kriegel,
Blandine, Jean Mabillon,
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1988
An impressively
erudite and yet surprisingly readable biography that sets Mabillon
firmly in the context of his times. However, it should be noted
that his travels are covered in just one chapter.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie 1762[-]1820
Travel
Writing
Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Laurence,
through the Continent of North America, … to the Frozen and Pacific
Oceans, … 1789 and 1793, 1801
Further
Reading
Gough,
Barry, First across the
Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1997
A
recent biography (and a study in imperial politics), incorporating
new research in fur trade archives and using Mackenzie’s correspondence
for the first time.
Lamb,
W. Kaye (editor), The Journals
and Letters of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1970
Out
of print, an invaluable collection of the principal documentation
on the voyages and commercial and imperial activities of Mackenzie.
Fitzroy Hew Maclean 1911[-]1996
Travel Writing
Eastern
Approaches, 1949
Disputed
Barricade: The Life and Times of Josip Broz-Tito, Marshal of Jugoslavia,
1957
Back to Bokhara, 1959
To the Back of Beyond: An Illustrated Companion
to Central Asia and Mongolia, 1974
To Caucasus, the End of all the Earth: An Illustrated
Companion to the Caucasus and Transcaucasia, 1976
Holy Russia: An Historical Companion to European
Russia, 1978
Portrait of the Soviet Union, 1988
All the Russias: The End of an Empire,
1992
Further Reading
McLynn,
Frank, Fitzroy Maclean,
London: John Murray, 1992
Madagascar
Travel
Writing
Attenborough,
David, Zoo Quest to Madagascar,
1961
Benyowsky,
Mauritius Augustus comte de , Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count
of Benyowsky … Consisting of His Military Operations in Poland,
His Exile into Kamchatka, His Escape and Voyage from that Peninsula
through the Northern Pacific Ocean …, 2 vols, 1790
Translation
of the original French manuscript by the disaffected Hungarian
adventurer who was commissioned in the 1770s by the French Crown
to create a settlement on the island.
Buchan,
George, A Narrative of the
Loss of the Winterton East Indiaman, Wrecked on the Coast of Madagascar
in 1792; and of the Sufferings Connected with that Event: To which
is Subjoined, a Short Account of the Natives of Madagascar, with
Suggestions as to Their Civilization. By a Passenger in the Ship,
1820
Catat,
Louis, Voyage à Madagascar,
1889[-]1890, 1894
Chapman,
Olive Murray, Across Madagascar,
1943
Crook,
Sally, Distant Shores: By
Traditional Canoe from Asia to Madagascar, 1990
An
account of a canoe voyage from Bali to Madagascar attempting to
re-create the journey taken by original settlers around 2,500
years before.
Du
Bois, Sieur, The Voyages
Made by Sieur D.B. to the Islands Dauphine or Madagascar and Bourbon
or Mascarene in the Years 1669, 70, 71, and 72, translated
from the French and edited by Pasfield Oliver, 1897
Drury,
Robert, Madagascar; or,
Robert Drury's Journal during Fifteen Years Captivity on That
Island, 1729; 2nd edition as The
Pleasant and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury during
His Fifteen years captivity on Madagascar, 1743
A
Madagascan vocabulary is appended, but the whole is suspected
of being (re)written by Daniel Defoe among whose works it is usually
catalogued.
Drysdale,
Helena, Dancing With the
Dead: A Journey through Zanzibar and Madagascar, 1991
Durrell,
Gerald, The Aye-Aye and
I: A Rescue Mission in Madagascar, 1992
Ellis,
William, Madagascar Revisited:
Describing the Events of a New Reign and the Revolution which
Followed; Setting Forth also the Persecutions Endured by the Christians,
1867
Étienne
de Flacourt, Histoire de
la grande isle Madagascar, 1658; reprinted, 1995
Flacourt,
author of a Dictionnaire
de la langue de Madagascar, covers the interactions of the
French and the native inhabitants during the period 1642[-]55;
the 2nd edition (1661) brings the narrative up to 1657.
Fiedler,
Arkady, Madagaskar, okrutny
czarodziej, n.d.; reprinted, 1969; translated as The Madagascar I Love, London: Orbis, 1946
Hamond,
Walter, A Paradox Prooving
that the Inhabitants of the Isle Called Madagascar, or St. Laurence,
(in Temporal Things) Are the Happiest People in the World; Whereunto
is Prefixed a Briefe and True Description of that Island …,
1640
Horn,
Alfred Aloysius, Trader
Horn: Being the Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn, 1927;
as Trader Horn: The Ivory Coast in the Earliers,
edited by Ethelreda Lewis, 1932
Houlder,
J.A., Among the Malagasy:
An Unconventional Record of Missionary Experience, 1912
A
rather dull account of the period 1871[-]96, though with some
good photographs and black and white paintings.
Marcuse,
Walter D., Through Western
Madagascar in Quest of the Golden Bean, 1914
Mullens,
Joseph, Twelve Months in
Madagascar, 1875
Murphy,
Dervla, Muddling through
in Madagascar, 1985
Oliver,
Samuel Pasfield, Madagascar
and the Malagasy: With Sketches in the Provinces of Tamatave,
Betanimena, and Ankova, 1866
Pfeiffer,
Ida, Reise nach Madagaskar,
nebst einer Biographie der Verfasserin, nach ihren eigenen Aufzeichnungen,
edited by Oscar Pfeiffer, 2 vols, 1861; as The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer: Inclusive
of a Visit to Madagascar; with a Biographical Memoir of the Author,
translated by H.W. Dulcken, 1861
Powell,
E. Alexander, Beyond the
Utmost Purple Rim: Abyssinia, Somaliland, Kenya Colony, Zanzibar,
the Comoros, Madagascar, 1925
Personal
narrative.
Rochon,
Alexis Marie, Abbé, Voyage à Madagascar et aux Indes Orientales, 1791; as A
Voyage to Madagascar and the East Indies, 1792; reprinted with Robert Drury’s Journal in Madagascar, edited by Pasfield Oliver, 1890
A
historical perspective on the island along with comments on Flacourt
and the French colonial administration of the time.
Rogozinski,
Jan, Honor among Thieves:
Captain Kidd, Henry Every, and the Pirate Democracy in the Indian
Ocean, 2000
Shaw,
George A., From Fianarantsoa
to Ikongo, Tananarive: Friends Foreign Mission Association,
1875
A
missionary account of the central-south region.
Shoumatoff,
Alex, “The Last of the Dog-Headed Men”, in his African Madness, 1988
Concentrates
particularly on Madagascar's environmental problems.
Wilson,
Jane, Lemurs of the Lost
World: Exploring the Forests and Crocodile Caves of Madagascar,
1990; 2nd edition, 1995
An
expedition to Ankarana, northwestern Madagascar.
Further Reading
Bradt, Hilary
(editor), Madagascar, Santa
Barbara, California: Clio Press, 1993
Bradt,
Hilary, Guide to Madagascar,
Chalfont St Peter: Bradt Publications, 1988
Brown,
Mervyn, Madagascar Rediscovered: A History from Early Times
to Independence, London: Damien
Tunnacliffe, 1978; Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1979
Everleigh, Mark, Maverick
in Madagascar, London: Lonely Planet, 2001
Resourceful traveller in search of an elusive lost tribe.
Gade,
Daniel W. (editor), Madagascar:
Madagasikara (American Geographical Society around the World
Program), Granville, Ohio: McDonald and Wooward, 1996
Lanting,
Frans, Madagascar: A World Out of Time, New York: Aperture, 1990
Mack,
John: Madagascar: Island of the Ancestors,
London: British Museum Publications, 1996
Introduction
to Malagasy history and customs.
Rushby, Kevin, Hunting
Pirate Heaven: In Search of the Lost Pirate Utopias of the Indian
Ocean, London: Constable, 2001
Quest for a (possibly fictional) 17th-century pirate utopia
in northeastern Madagascar.
Swaney,
Deanna and Paul Greenway, Madagascar
& Comoros, Berkeley, California:
Lonely Planet, 1997
Ella K. Maillart 1903[-]1997
Travel Writing
Parmi la Jeunesse Russe -- de Moscou au Caucase, [Among Russian Youth -- from Moscow to the Caucasus], preface by Luc
Durtain, 1932
Des Monts Célestes aux Sables Rouges, 1934; as Turkestan
Solo: One Woman’s Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum,
translated by John Rodker, 1934
Oasis interdites: de Pékin au Cachemire, 1937; as Forbidden
Journey: From Peking to Kashmir, translated by Thomas McGreevy,
1937; with an introduction by Dervla Murphy, 1983
Gypsy Afloat,
1942; as La Vagabonde des
Mers, 1991
Cruises and Caravanes, 1942; as Croisières et Caravanes,
translated by Gabrielles Rives, 1951
The Cruel Way,
1947; as La Voie Cruelle,
1952; with an introduction by Mary Russell, 1986
Ti Puss, 1951;
as Ti Puss -- Voyage en
Inde avec ma Chatte [Ti
Puss -- Voyage in India with my Cat], 1979
The Land of the Sherpas, 1955
Further Reading
Bouvier, Nicolas, La Vie immédiate, Paris: Payot, 1991
An album of photographs accompanied
by texts written by her friend and fellow traveler Nicolas Bouvier.
Deriaz, Anne, Chère Ella: élégie pour Ella Maillart, Arles: Actes Sud, 1988
A portrait of Ella during the last
years of her life written by another Swiss travel writer
Gerbault, Alain, Seul à travers l’Atlantique et Autres Récits,
Paris: Grasset, 1924; reprinted 1991
Includes an introduction by Ella Maillart.
Gibbon, Monk, Mount Ida, London: Jonathan Cape, 1948; reprinted, Dublin: Wolfhound
Press, 1983
Part One is a portrait of Ella Maillart
when she taught in Wales at the same school as the author
Girardin, Dan, Ella Maillart au Népal, Arles: Actes Sud, 1999
An album of photographs from her travels
in Nepal presentated by Daniel Girardin.
Pilkington, John, “Kyrgyzstan: a Tale
of Two Journeys”, Geographical
Magazine, 65/4 (1993): 8
The author retraces Maillart’s path
through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan
Voyages vers le Réel, Geneva: Editions Olizane, 1983
Essays written for Ella Maillart by
several authors in celebration of her eightieth birthday.
Malaya / Malaysia
Travel
Writing
Abdullah
bin Abdul Kadir, Hikayat
Abdullah, 1849; translated
into English by A.H. Hill, 1954
Abdullah
bin Abdul Kadir, Kesah Pelayaran
Abdullah, 1838; as The
Voyage of Abdullah, Being an Account of his Experiences on a Voyage
from Singapore to Kelantan in Ad 1838, translated from the
Malay by A.E. Coope, 1949
Crucial
texts, giving the perspective of a writer occupying an interstitial
place in a rapidly changing Malay world.
Bird,
Isabella, The Golden Chersonese
and the Way Thither,
1883
Well-known
account of a visit to the West Coast of peninsular Malaya.
Brooke,
Charles, Ten Years in Sarawak,
1866
Based
on the journals of the future Rajah of Sarwak.
Burbidge,
F.W., The Gardens of the
Sun; or, A Naturalist’s Journal on the Mountains and in the Forests
and Swamps of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago, 1880
Largely
set in present-day Sabah.
Caddy,
Florence, To Siam and Malaya
in the Duke of Sutherland’s Yacht “Sans Peur”,
1889
Two
chapters set in Johor.
Clifford,
Hugh Charles, In Court &
Kampong Being Tales & Sketches of Native Life in the Malay
Peninsula, 1897
Clifford,
Hugh Charles, In a Corner
of Asia: Being Tales and Impressions of Men and Things in the
Malay Peninsula, 1899
Two
of many collections of both travel writing and thinly-fictionalised
short stories set in Pahang at the end of the 19th century by
the most prolific colonial writer on Malayan topics.
Hansen,
Eric, Stranger in the Forest:
On Foot across Borneo, 1988
Hornaday,
William Temple, Two Years
in the Jungle: The Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India,
Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo,
1885
Account
of collecting in peninsular Malaya and Sarawak by an American
naturalist.
Hose,
Charles, The Field-Book
of a Jungle-Wallah, being a description of Shore, River and Forest
Life in Sarawak, 1929
Descriptive
anecdotes written by a long-serving member of the Brooke Administration.
Innes,
Emily, The Chersonese with
the Gilding Off, 2 vols, 1885
Response
to Bird’s account by the wife of a colonial official, showing
a quotidian reality in sharp contrast to exoticising traveller’s
accounts of the Malayan peninsula.
Low,
Hugh, Sarawak: Its Inhabitants and Productions,
1848
Description
of Sarawak under Brooke rule with supplementary personal anecdotes.
Maugham,
W. Somerset, A Writer’s
Notebook, 1949
Contains
descriptions of incidents in British Borneo and Malaya that Maugham
would later adapt to create his well-known short stories.
Maxwell,
William George, In Malay
Forests, 1907
Series
of stories of hunting adventures in the interior of the peninsula.
Mohamed
Ibrahim Munshi, Kesah pelayran
Mohamed Ibrahim Munshi, 1919; as The
Voyages of Mohamed Ibrahim Munshi, translated by Amin Sweeney
and Nigel Phillips, 1975
Important
account of travel on the West Coast from a Malay perspective.
O’Hanlon,
Redmond, Into the Heart
of Borneo, 1984
Frequently
humorous account of travels upriver in Sarawak with James Fenton.
Osborn,
Sherard, Quedah; or, Stray
Leaves from a Journal in Malayan Waters,
1857; as Quedah: A Cruise
in Japanese Waters, 1865; as My
Journal in Malayan Waters, or, the Blockade of Quedah, 1861
Based
on a British ship’s officer’s diary.
St.
John, Spenser, Life in the
Forests of the Far East, 2 vols, 1862
Account
of incidents during a 13-year residence in what are now Sarawak
and Sabah.
Swettenham,
Frank Athelstane, Malay
Sketches, 1895
Swettenham,
Frank Athelstane, The Real
Malay: Pen Pictures, 1900
Collections
of short pieces by a well-known British administrator.
Wallace,
Alfred Russel, The Malay
Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise,
2 vols, 1869
The
most influential 19th-century book on Borneo, written by a noted
biologist.
Further
Reading
Gullick,
J.M. (editor), They Came to Malaya: A Travellers’ Anthology,
Kuala Lumpur, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
Useful
anthology with informative introduction.
Gullick,
J.M. (editor), Adventurous
Women in South-East Asia: Six Lives, Kuala Lumpur, Oxford
and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
Biographies
of Innes, Bird, Sophia Raffles and other women travellers.
King,
Victor T. (editor), The
Best of Borneo Travel, Oxford and New York: Oxford University
Press, 1992
Anthology
covering Brunei, Malaysian and Indonesian Borneo with a critically
informed preface and introduction.
Morgan,
Susan, Place Matters: Gendered
Geography in Victorian Women’s Travel Books about Southeast Asia, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996
Covers
peninsular Malaya and Sarawak.
Savage,
Victor R., Western Impressions
of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Singapore
University Press, 1984
Compendious,
with much information on both peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.
André Malraux 1901[-]1976
Travel Writing
Reflections of Malraux’s Far Eastern travels are
to be found in:
La Tentation
de l’Occident,
1926; as The Temptation
of the West, translated by Robert Hollander, 1961
“André Malraux et l’Orient”, Les Nouvelles littéraires, 31 July 1926; reprinted in Malraux, Oeuvres complètes, edited by Pierre Brunel
et al., vol. 1, 1989
“D’une
jeunesse européenne”, 1927
and in the following novels:
Les Conquérants,
1928; as The Conquerors, translated by Winifred
Stephens Whale, 1929
La Voie
royale, 1930; as
The Royal Way, translated by Stuart Gilbert,
1935
La Condition
humaine, 1933;
as Man’s Fate, translated by Haakon M. Chevalier,
1934; as Storm in Shanghai,
translated by Alastair Macdonald, 1934; reissued as Man’s Estate, 1948
Various of his other travels are evoked in:
Antimémoires, 1967; as Antimemoirs,
translated by Terence Kilmartin, 1968
La Corde
et les Souris,
1976
Further Reading
Cadwallader, Barrie, Crisis of the European Mind: A Study of André Malraux and Drieu La Rochelle,
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1981
Lacouture, Jean, Malraux, une vie dans le siècle, Paris: Seuil, 1976
Langlois, Walter G., André Malrant, L’Aventure indochinoise, Paris: Mercure de France,
1967
Malraux, Clara, Le Bruit de nos pas, 6 vols,
Paris: Grasset, 1963[-]79
Malta
Travel Writing
Abela,
Giovanni Francesco, Della
descrittione di Malta, 1647
Anonymous,
Account of Malta (original
French, 1792, translated into English, 1800)
Bartlett,
W.H., Gleanings, Pictorial
and Antiquarian on the Overland Route, 1851
The
topographical artist spent some days in Malta on his way to and
from the East and both wrote about and drew it.
Blaquiere,
Edward, Letters from the
Mediterranean, Containing an Account of Sicily, Tripoli and Malta
with Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes and Observations, 1813
Borch,
Micheal Jean, Lettres sur
la Sicile et sur l’ile de Malthe, (supplement to P. Brydone’s Voyage), 1782
Discusses
Louis IX of France’s travels to Tunisia and a crusader cemetery
on Gozo.
Brassey,
Annie, A Voyage in the “Sunbeam”:
Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months, 1878; as Around the World in the Yacht “Sunbeam”: Our
Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months,
1878
MP’s
wife writes about their journey by private yacht around the Mediterranean
with their children.
Brydone,
P. et al., A
Tour through Sicily and Malta, 2 vols, 1773
A
tour through Sicily and Malta in a series of letters.
Byron,
Lord George, Farewell to
Malta!, edited by Jerome J. McGann, 1993
Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor, Collected Letters, edited by E.L. Griggs, 6 vols, 1956[-]71
Notebooks,
edited Kathleen Coburn, 4 vols, 1957
Denon,
Vivant, Travels in Sicily
and Malta, 1789
Disraeli,
Benjamin, Home Letters,
1885
Forman,
Henry James, Grecian Italy,
1927
Travels
in Malta and Sicily by an American writer.
Elwood,
Anne Katherine, Narrative
of a Journey: Overland from England, by the Continent of Europe,
Egypt, and the Red Sea, to India, 1830
Mrs
Elwood wintered in Malta 1825[-]26 and wrote enthusiastically.
Evans,
Katharine and Sarah Cheevers, This is a Short Relation of Some of the Cruel Sufferings (for Truth’s
Sake), in the Inquisition in the Isle of Malta, 1662
Galt,
John, Voyages and Travels,
(in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811, 1812
Westminster,
Elizabeth Mary, Marchioness of, Yacht Voyage in the Mediterranean during the
Years 1840[-]41, 2 vols, 1842
Halls,
J.J., The Life and Narrative
of a Correspondence of Henry Salt, 1834
Salt
spent some weeks in Malta in quarantine in 1806 and en route to
becoming Consul General in Egypt in 1816.
Lamartine,
Alphonse de, Souvenirs,
impressions, penseés et paysages un voyage en orient, 4 vols,
1835; as, Travels in the East, 1839
Prime,
William C., Boat Life in
Egypt and Nubia, 1857
An
American lawyer who stopped over in Malta on his way east.
Richardson,
R.R., Narrative of a Voyage
around the Mediterranean, 1820
Schermerhorn,
E.W., Malta of the Knights,
1929
Scott,
Walter, The Journal of Sir
Walter Scott, edited by W.E.K. Anderson, 1972
Swan,
Rev. Charles, Journal of
a Voyage up the Mediterranean, Principally among the Islands and
in Asia Minor, 1826
Chaplain
in the Royal Navy based in Malta during journeys to the East.
Thackeray,
William Makepeace, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, 1846
Valentia,
George, Viscount, Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt
in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806, 3 vols, 1809
Walsh,
J., Journal of the Late
Campaign in Egypt, 1803
Reports
on Malta where the British expedition gathered for Egypt.
Wolff,
Joseph, Researches and Missionary
Journeys among the Jews and Other Sects, 1831[-]4, from Malta
to Constantinople, 1835
Wood,
Sir Mark, Remarks during
a Journey to the East Indies, 1803
Further
Reading
Balbi,
Francesco da Correggio, La verdadera relación de todo lo que este ano de M.D.LXV ha sucedido en
la îsla de Malta, 1568; as The
Siege of Malta 1565, 1965
A
remarkable day-to-day account of the Great Siege.
The
relation of St Paul’s shipwreck and stay in Malta.
Billings,
Malcolm, The Cross and the
Crescent, London: BBC Publications, 1987
A
clear account of the travels of the Knights from Jerusalem to
Malta.
Boisgelin,
Louis de, Ancient and Modern
Malta: Containing a Description of the Ports and Cities of the
Islands of Malta and Goza, as also the History of the Knights
of St. John of Jerusalem, 3 vols, 1895; London: Robinson,
1804
Bradford,
Ernle, The Great Siege,
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961; New York: Harcourt, Brace
and World, 1962
A
riveting account, using original sources plentifully.
Bruce,
Ian (editor), The Nun of
Lebanon: The Love Affair of Lady Hester Stanhope and Michael Bruce,
London: Collins, 1951
Lady
Hester Stanhope’s letters, including those to her lover Michael
Bruce.
Elliott,
Peter, The Cross and the
Ensign: A Naval History of Malta, 1789[-]1979, Cambridge:
P. Stephens, and Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1980
Malta’s
naval history.
Hoskins,
Halford Lancaster, British Routes to India, reprinted, London: Cass, and New York: Octagon
Books, 1966
Discusses
the importance of Malta as a staging post.
Hughes,
Quentin, Fortress: Architecture
and Military History in Malta, London: Lund Humphries, 1969
Important
to the understanding of travellers’ descriptions.
Malta
Gazette, 1817 onward, provided shipping news showing who arrived and left Malta.
Malta
Penny Magazine, Malta, 1830s onward for some years provided
descriptions and pictures of the island.
Murray,
Guide to Egypt, 1873
Includes
advice to the traveller for Malta.
Porter,
Whitworth, A History of
the Knights of Malta; or, The Order of the Hospital of St. John
of Jerusalem, London: Longman, 1858
Smith,
James of Jordanhill, Voyage and Shipwreck of the Apostle St Paul, with Dissertations on Sources
and the Ships and Navigation of the Anitients, 1848
Sultana,
Donald, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
in Malta and Italy, Oxford: Blackwell, and New York: Barnes
and Noble, 1969
Sultana,
Donald, Benjamin Disraeli
in the Spain and Malta, Salzburg: Universität Salzburg, 1975;
as Benjamin Disraeli in the Spain, Malta and Albania,
1830[-]32, London: Tamesis, 1976
Warburton,
Eliot, The Crescent and
the Cross, London: Colburn, 1845
Zammit,
Themistocles, Malta, the
Islands and Their History, 2nd edition, printed at “The Malta
Office” Malta, 1929
Mandeville’s Travels
Travel Writing
Mandeville’s
Travels: Texts and Translations, edited by Malcolm Letts,
2 vols, 1953
The
Bodley Version of Mandeville’s Travels, edited by M.C. Seymour,
1963
Mandeville’s
Travels, edited by M.C. Seymour, 1967
Further
Reading
Campbell, Mary B., The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400[-]1600,
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1988
Friedman, John Block, The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought, Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press, 1981
Greenblatt, Stephen J., Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
and Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991
Higgins, Iain Macleod, Writing East: The “Travels” of Sir John Mandeville, Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997
Metlitzki, Dorothee, The Matter of Araby in Medieval England, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale
University Press, 1977
Seymour, M.C., Sir John Mandeville, Aldershot: Variorum, and Ashfield, Vermont: Ashgate,
1993
Zacher, Christian K., Curiosity and Pilgrimage: The Literature of Discovery in Fourteenth-Century
England, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim 1867[-]1951
Travel Writing
Predvaritel’nyj otchet o poezdke, predprinjatoj
po Vysochajshemu poveleniju cherez Kitajskij Turkestan i severnyja
provincii Kitaja v g. Pekin v 1906[-]7 i 8 g.g., 1909
“A
Visit to the Sarö and Shera Yögurs”, Journal
de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 27/2 (1911)
Across Asia from West to East in 1906[-]1908,
edited by Kaarlo Hildern, and translated by Edward Birse, 2 vols,
1940
The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim, translated
by Eric Lewenhaupt, 1953
C.G. Mannerheimin: valokuvia Aasian-Matkalta
1906[-]1908 / Photographs by C.G. Mannerheim from his Journey
across Asia, 1906[-]1908, edited by Peter Sandberg, 1990
C.G. Mannerheim’s Chinese Pantheon: Materials
for an Iconography of Chinese Folk Religion, edited by Harry
Halén and Bent Lerbæk Pedersen, 1993
Further Reading
C.G. Mannerheim in Central Asia 1906[-]1908,
Helsinki: National Board of Antiquities, 1999
Fazy,
Robert, “Le Voyage du maréchal Mannerheim en Asie Centrale et
Orientale, de 1906 à 1908”, Asiatische
Studien - Études Asiatiques, 4 (1950): 113[-]16
Granö,
J.G., “Feldmarschall Mannerheims Reisewerk / C.G. Mannerheim,
Across Asia from West to East in 1906[-]1908”, I-II. Finnisch-ugrische
Forschungen, 27 (1941): 1[-]3, Anzeiger, 5[-]12
Klinge,
Matti, “Mannerheim’s Ride to China”, Asian
Affairs, 2 (1989): 142[-]52
Meinander,
Henrik (editor), Scripta
Mannerheimiana (bibliography), Helsinki: Helsinki University
Library, 1996
Screen,
J.E.O., Mannerheim: The
Years of Preparation, London: Hurst, 1970; revised edition,
1993
Varjola,
Pirjo, “Marshal Mannerheim’s Central Asian Collection in the National
Museum of Finland” in Traces of the Central Asian Culture in the North: Finnish-Soviet Joint
Scientific Symposium Held in Hanasaari, Espoo, 14[-]21 January
1985, edited by Ildikó Lehtinen, Helsinki: Syomalais-ugrilainen
Seura, 1986
Manuscript Collecting
Travel Writing
Carlyle, Joseph Dacre, Poems Suggested Chiefly by Scenes in Asia Minor,
Syria, and Greece, 1805
The chaplain to Lord Elgin’s 1799 embassy
to Istanbul was searching for Greek and Syriac manuscripts for
his planned new translation of the New Testament.
Curzon, Robert, Visits to Monasteries in the Levant, 1849; facsimile, 1995
Curzon offers an informative account
based on journals, notes, and letters of the trip beginning in
1833.
Curzon, Robert, Armenia: A Year at Erzeroom, and on the Frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and
Persia, 1854
Stein, Aurel, Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan, 1903
Stein, Aurel, Ruins of Desert Cathay: Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central
Asia and Westernmost China, 2 vols, 1912; reprinted 1968
Stein recounts his travels to the Caves
of the Thousand Buddhas and his search for manuscripts.
Stein, Aurel, On Alexander’s Track to the Indus: Personal Narrative of Explorations
on the Northeast Frontier of India, 1929
Stein, Aurel, On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions
in Innermost Asia and Northwestern China, 1933; edited by
Jeannette Mirsky, 1964
Further Reading
Alexander, J.J.G. and A.C. de la Mare,
The Italian Manuscripts
in the Library of Major J.R. Abbey, London: Faber, and New
York: Praegar, 1969
Artier, Jacqueline, “La Bibliothèque
du cardinal de Richelieu” in Histoire
des bibliothèques françaises, vol 2: Les
Bibliothèques sous l’ancien régime (1530[-]1789), edited by
Claude Jolly, Paris: Promodis, 1988 [whole “Histoire”, 1988[-]1992]
Aufrère, Sydney H., La Momie et la tempète: Nicolas-Claude Fabri
de Peiresc et la curiosité égyptienne en Provence au début du
XVII siècle, Avignon: Barthélemy, 1990
Thoroughly documents the network of
exchange between Peiresc and the Levant.
Basbanes, Nicolas A., A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes,
and the Eternal Passion for Books, New York: Holt, 1995
Cabanne, Pierre, The Great Collectors, London: Cassell,
and New York: Farrar Straus, 1963
Charon-Parent, Annie, “Les grandes
collections du XVIe siècle,” in Histoire
des bibliothèques françaises, vol 2: Les
bibliothèques sous l’ancien régime (1530[-]1789), edited by
Claude Jolly, Paris: Promodis, 1988
Cooper, Douglas (editor), Great Private Collections, London: Weidenfeld
and Nicolson, and New York: Macmillan, 1963
Delaissé, L.M.J, James Marrow and John
de Wit, Illuminated Manuscripts:
The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor,
London and Fribourg National Trust, 1977
Elsner, John and Roger Cardinal (editors),
The Cultures of Collecting,
London: Reaktion, and Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press, 1994
Garand, Monique-Cécile, “Les Anciennes
Bibliothèques du XIIe au XVe siècle” in Histoire des bibliothèques françaises, vol. 1: Les bibliothèques médiévales, du VIe siècle à 1530, edited by André
Vernet, Paris: Promodis, 1989
Gasnault, Pierre, “De la bibliothèque
de Mazarin à la bibliothèque Mazarine” in Histoire
des bibliothèques françaises, vol. 2:
Les bibliothèques sous l’ancien régime (1530[-]1789), edited
by Claude Jolly, Paris: Promodis, 1988
Gordon, Phyllis W.G. (translator),
Two Renaissance Book-hunters: The Letters of
Poggins Bracciolini to Nicolaus de Niccolis, New York: Columbia
University Press, 1974
Hobson, Anthony, Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Their Books and Bindings, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1999
Holland,
Meridel, “Robert Curzon, Traveller and Book Collector”, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 65/2
(1983): 123[-]57
Holtz, Louis, “Des bibliothèques antiques
aux bibliothèques médiévales” in Histoire
des bibliothèques françaises, vol. 1: Les
bibliothèques médiévales du VIe siècle à 1530, edited by André
Vernet, Paris: Promodis, 1989
Houghton, Walter E. Jr, “The English
Virtuoso in the Seventeenth Century”, Journal
of the History of Ideas, 3 (1942): 51[-]73
Jolly, Claude (editor), Histoire des bibliothèques françaises,
vol. 2: Les bibliothèques
sous l’ancien régime (1530[-]1789), Paris: Promodis, 1988
This well-documented edition provides
information on the inception of libraries, collections, and the
setting itself.
Mirsky, Jeannette, Sir Aurel Stein, Archaeological Explorer,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977
Muensterberger, Werner, Collecting: An Unruly Passion-Psychological
Perspectives, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
Press, 1994
Of particular interest is the chapter
on Thomas Phillipps.
Munby, A.N.L., The Catalogues of Manuscripts and Printed Books of Sir Thomas Phillipps,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951
Munby, A.N.L., Portrait of an Obsession: The Life of Sir Thomas Phillipps, adapted
by Nicolas Barker from the five volumes of Phillipps studies by
A.N.L. Munby, London: Constable, and New York: Putnam, 1967
Munby, A.N.L., “Robert Curzon” in his
Connoisseurs and Medieval
Miniatures, 1750[-]1850, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972
Myers, Robin and Michael Harris (editors),
Antiquaries, Book Collectors
and the Circles of Learning, New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll
Press, and Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies, 1996
Of note, the chapter on the illuminated
manuscripts of Edmond de Rothschild.
Naudé, Gabriel, Instructions Concerning Erecting of a Library, translated by John
Evelyn, London: Bedle, Collins, and Crook, 1661
Ouy, Guy, “Les Premiers Humanistes
et leurs livres” in Histoire
des bibliothèques françaises, vol. 1: Les
Bibliothèques médiévales, du VIe siècle à 1530, edited by
André Vernet, Paris: Promodis, 1989
Pearce, Susan M., On Collecting: An Investigation into Collecting
in the European Tradition, London and New York: Routledge,
1995
Ricci, Seymour de, English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts
(1530[-]1930) and Their Marks of Ownership, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1930
Stein, Aurel, Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Raghunatha Temple Library
of His Highness the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, Bombay,
1894
Stirnemann, Patricia, “Les bibliothèques
princières et privées aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles,” in Histoire des bibliothèques françaises,
vol. 1: Les bibliothèques
médiévales, du VIe siècle à 1530, edited by André Vernet,
Paris: Promodis, 1989
Tite, Colin G.C., The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton,
London: British Library, 1994
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, A Hidden Life: The Enigma of Sir Edmund Backhouse,
London: Macmillan, 1976; as Hermit
of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse, New York: Knopf, 1977
Vernet, André (editor), Histoire des bibliothèques françaises,
vol 1: Les bibliothèques
médiévales, du VIe siècle à 1530, Paris: Promodis, 1989
This edition covers the High Middle
Ages: ecclesiastical libraries, princely and humanist collectors.
Viardot, Jean, “Naissance de la bibliophilie:
les cabinets de livres rares” in Histoire des bibliothèques françaises vol. 2: Les bibliothèques sous l’ancien régime (1530[-]1789), edited by Claude
Jolly, Paris: Promodis, 1988
Walker, Annabel, Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road,
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998
Maps and Charts
Further Reading
Armstrong, Richard, The Discoverers, London: Benn, 1968; New
York: Praeger, 1969
Armstrong, Richard, The Early Mariners, London: Benn, 1967;
New York: Praeger, 1968
Bagrow, Leo, History of Cartography, translated by D.L. Paisey, revised and enlarged
by R.A. Skelton, Cambridge, Massachusettes: Harvard University
Press, 1964; reprinted, Chicago: Precedent Publications, 1985
Bagrow, Leo and Robert W. Karrow Jr,
Mapmakers of the Sixteenth
Century and Their Maps, Chicago: Speculum Orbis Press, 1993
Beazley, C. Raymond, The Dawn of Modern Geography: A History of
Exploration and Geographical Science from the Conversion of the
Roman Empire to ad
900, 3 vols, London: John Murray, 1897[-]1906; New York: Peter
Smith, 1949
