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Mecca and Medina
Travel Writing
Burckhardt, John Lewis, Travels in Arabia, Comprehending an Account
of those Territories in Hadjaz which the Mohammedans regard as
Sacred, 2 vols, 1829
Burton, Richard F., Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to el-Madinah
and Meccah, 2 vols, 1856
Farāhāni, Mohammad Husaynī,
A Shi’ite Pilgrimage to
Mecca, 1885[-]1886, edited and translated by Hafez Farmayan
and Elton L. Daniel, 1990
Hurgronje, Christiaan Snouk, Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century,
translated by J.H. Monahan, 1931
Ibn Battuta, Travels of Ibn Battuta ad 1325[-]1354, translated by H.A.R.
Gibb, 5 vols, 1958[-]2000 (vol. 4 with C.F. Beckingham)
Ibn Jubayr, The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, translated by R.J.C. Broadhurst, 1952
Kazem Zadeh, H., “Relation d’un pèlerinage
à la Mecque en 1910[-]1911”, Revue
du monde musulman, 6/19 (1912): 144[-]227
Niebuhr, Carsten, Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden
Ländern, 1772; reprinted, 1992
Varthéma, Ludovico di, The Travels of Ludovico di Varthéma in Egypt,
Syria, Arabian Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India and
Ethiopia, a.d.1503 to 1508, translated by John
Winter Jones, and edited by George Percy Badger, 1863
Further Reading
Bidwell, Robin, Travellers in Arabia, London and New York: Hamlyn, 1976
Nomachi, Kazuyoshi, Mecca, the Blessed, Medina, the Radiant: The
Holiest Cities of Islam, New York: Aperture, 1997
Peters, F.E., Mecca: A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land, Princeton, New
Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994
Tolmacheva, Marina, “Female Patronage
and Piety in the Medieval Hajj”
in Women in the Medieval
Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety, edited by Gavin
R.G. Hambly, New York: St Martin’s Press, and London: Macmillan,
1998
Watt, William Montgomery, Muhammad at Mecca, Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1953; New York: Oxford University Press, 1979
Wüstenfeld, Heinrich Ferdinand, Die Chroniken der Stadt Mekka, 4 vols,
Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1857[-]61
Wüstenfeld, Heinrich Ferdinand, Geschichte der Stadt Medina, Göttingen:
Dieterich, 1860
Megasthenes (c.350[-]290bc)
Travel Writing
Megasthenis Indica. Fragmenta collegit, commentationem
et indicices adjecit, edited by E.A. Schwanbeck, 1846; reprinted,
1967
“The
Indica of Arrian”, translated by John Watson McCrindle, Indian Antiquary, 5 (1876): 85[-]108, 329[-]40; “Fragments of the
Indica of Megasthenes”, translated by John Watson McCrindle, Indian Antiquary, 6 (1877): 113[-]35, 236[-]50,
333[-]49; all republished as Ancient
India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian, 1877; reprinted
with new notes by R.C. Majumdar, 1960; reprinted with a new introduction,
notes and index by Ramchandra Jain, 1972
Fragmenta historicorum Græcorum, collegit,
disposuit, notis et prolegomenis illustravit indicibus instruxit,
vol. 2, edited by Carolus Müller, 1878; reprinted, 1975 (contains
the fragments of Megasthenes with translation and notes in Latin).
Die Fragmente der Griechischer Historiker,
edited by Felix Jacoby, 3 vols, 1923[-]58 (the authoritative edition
of Megasthenes’ fragments).
Further Reading
Breloer,
Bernhard, Altindisches Privatrecht
bei Megasthenes und Kaut¸alya, Kautal|ya-Studien II, Bonn,
1928
Breloer
also discussed Megasthenes in several articles published in the
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen
Gesellschaft in 1934, 1935, and 1939.
Brown,
Truesdell S., “The Reliability of Megasthenes”, American Journal of Philology, 76 (1955): 18[-]33
Brown,
Truesdell S., “The Merits and Weaknesses of Megasthenes”, Phoenix, 11 (1957): 11[-]24
Dahlquist,
Allan, Megasthenes and Indian
Religion: A Study in Motives and Types, Stockholm: Almqvist
& Wiksell, 1962; Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1977
Derrett,
J. Duncan M., “Megasthenes”, Der
Kleine Pauly, 3 (1969): 1150[-]54
Goyal,
S.R., Kautilya and Megasthenes,
Meerut: Kusumanjali Prakashan, 1985
Kalota,
Narain Singh, India as Described
by Megasthenes, Delhi: Concept, 1978
Karttunen,
Klaus, India and the Hellenistic
World, Helsinki: Finnish Oriental Society, 1997
Majumdar,
R.C., “The Indika of Megasthenes”, Journal
of the American Oriental Society, 78 (1958): 273[-]76
Sachse,
Joanna, Megasthenes o Indiach,
Wratislaviensis 587, Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocawskiego,
1981 (includes summary in French and German)
Schwarz,
Franz Ferdinand, “Die Griechen und die Maurya-Dynastie” in Geschichte Mittelasiens im Altertum, edited by Franz Altheim and Ruth
Stiehl, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1970
Skurzak,
Ludwik, “Études sur les fragments de Mégasthène”, Eos, 47 (1954): 95[-]100, and Folia
Orientalia, 2 (1960): 83[-]87, and other articles on Megasthenes
in French and Polish
Stein,
Otto, Megasthenes und Kaütilya,
Vienna: Alfred Hölder, 1921
Stein,
Otto, “Megasthenes” in Realencyclopädie
der Klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, edited by A. Pauly
and G. Wissowa et al., vol. 15, 1932
Timmer,
Barbara Catharina Jacoba, Megasthenes
en de indische maatschappij, Amsterdam: H.J. Paris, 1930
Zambrini,
A., “Gli Indiká di Megastene”, Annali
della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia,
Serie 3, 12/1 (1982): 71[-]149; 15/3 (1985) 781[-]853
Mekong River
Travel
Writing
Aymonier,
Étienne François, Notes
sur le Laos, 1885
Curt
business-like notes for would-be French colonial frontier-breakers
in Laos.
Aymonier,
Étienne François, Voyage
dans le Laos, 2 vols, 1895[-]97
In
1882 and 1883 the French traveller Aymonier travelled extensively
in Laos, producing outstandingly detailed maps. These two volumes
tell, exhaustively, how the material for his earlier Lonely-Planet-like
Notes was gathered.
Branda,
Paul, Le Haut-Mékong; ou,
Le Laos ouvert: Avec une carte-autographe du Haut-Mékong,
1887
A
rather over-excited account, in French, of travel on the Mekong
in 1884[-]86.
Brodrick,
Alan Houghton, Little Vehicle:
Cambodia and Laos, 1949
Brodrick’s
travels in Cambodia and Laos in 1939 are used allegorically in
this lovely poetic book to illustrate the principles of Hinayana
Buddhism.
Burchett,
W.G., Mekong Upstream,
1957
Burchett
was an Australian journalist who took all his family with him
on a trip through Laos and Cambodia in the mid 1950s. This light
and enjoyable cocktail of conversation, history, anecdote and
observation, is the result. It is no lasting book, but it was
a brave trip.
Burleigh,
Charles, The Living Mekong,
1971
A
didactic, not at all introspective account of a trip on the Mekong,
illustrated with photographs. An odd, hybrid book which can’t
make up its mind whether it is a school text book, a guide-book
or a simple travelogue.
Candee,
Helen Churchill, Angkor
the Magnificent: The Wonder City of Ancient Cambodia, 1924
An
account of a trip from Hong Kong and up the Mekong to Angkor,
with a feel of the crinoline about it.
Carné,
Louis de, Voyage en Indo-Chine
et dans l’empire chinois, 1872; as Travels
in Indo-China and the Chinese Empire, 1872; as Travels on the Mekong: Cambodia, Laos and Yunna, 1995
Elvin,
Harold, Elvin’s Rides,
1963
An
account of the author’s journeys by bicycle to, inter alia, Angkor.
Garnier,
Francis, Voyage d’exploration
en Indo-Chine, effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868,
1873; edited by Jean-Pierre Gomane, 1985
Garstin,
Crosbie, The Dragon and
the Lotus, 1928
Gobeil,
Pierre, Cent jours sur le
Mékong: Journal, 1995
A
short, prosaic travelogue.
Harmand,
Jules, L’Homme du Mékong:
un voyageur solitaire à travers l’Indochine inconnue, 1879[-]80
Kremmer,
Christopher, Stalking the
Elephant Kings: In search of Laos, Honolulu: University of
Hawaii Press, 1997
A
crusading travelogue, written to emphasize the unpleasantness
of the present Lao regime. The politics are intrusive.
Lewis,
Norman, A Dragon Apparent:
Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, 1951
MacGregor,
John, Through the Buffer
State: A Record of Recent Travels through Borneo, Siam and Cambodia,
1896
The
perpetually cheerful, interested and interesting MacGregor spent
his leave wandering in South East Asia. Some of that time was
on the lower Mekong.
Menger,
Matt J., In the Valley of
the Mekong: An American in Laos, 1970
Menger
was the first American Catholic priest to be stationed in Laos.
This is an account of his ministry. More devotional than exploratory.
Morga,
Antonio de, Succesos de
las islas Filipinas, 1609; as The
Philippine Islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan and China,
at the Close of the Sixteenth Century; translated by H.E.J.
Stanley, 1868
Mouhot,
Henri, Travels in the Central
Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia and Laos, during the Years
1858, 1859 and 1860, 1864
Mouhot,
Alexandre Henri, Notes on
Cambodia, 1865
Natural
history, anthropological and general geographical notes, written
with Mouhot’s invariable clarity and colour.
Murphy,
Dervla, One Foot in Laos,
1999
Ponder,
H.W., Cambodian Glory: The
Mystery of the Deserted Khmer Cities and their Vanished Splendour,
and a Description of Life in Cambodia Today, 1936
Beautifully
related meanderings to and around Angkor.
Reinach,
Lucien de, Notes sur le
Laos, 1906
Seton,
Grace Thompson, Poison Arrows:
Strange Journey with an Opium Dreamer through Annam, Cambodia,
Siam and the Lotus Isle of Bali, 1938
Stewart,
Lucretia, Tiger Balm: Travels
in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1992
Vincent,
Frank, The Land of the White
Elephant: Sights and Scenes in Southeastern Asia: A Personal Narrative
of Travel and Adventure in Farther India, Embracing the Countries
of Burma, Siam, Cambodia and Cochin-China, 1871[-]2, 1873
A
stiff travelogue, which includes details of some time in the Mekong
delta and in Angkor.
Warington-Smyth,
H., Notes of a Journey on
the Upper Mekong, Siam, 1895
Warrington-Smyth
was an official of the Siamese Government, and the object of the
journey was to examine a supposedly very rich deposit of rubies
and sapphires recently discovered on the bank of the Mekong opposite
Chieng Kong. This is the report.
Wheatcroft,
Rachel, Siam and Cambodia
in Pen and Pastel. With excursions in China and Burmah, 1928
Extraordinarily
bad paintings and drawings, mitigated by reasonable, but rather
patronizing writing about, inter alia, Angkor, and the way there
along the Mekong.
Further
Reading
Adams,
W.H. Davenport, In the Far
East: A Narrative of Exploration and Adventure in Cochin-China,
Cambodia, Laos, and Siam, London: Nelson, 1879
Doudart
de Lagrée, E.M.L. de Gonzague, Explorations
et missions de Doudart de Lagrée, edited by A.B. de Villemereuil,
Paris: Tremblay, 1883
Hoskin,
John, The Mekong: A River
and Its People, London: New Holland, 1992
Lacroze,
Luc, Les Grands Pionniers
du Mékong: une cinquantaine d’années d’aventures, 1884[-]1935,
Paris: L’Harmattan, 1996
Osborne,
Milton, River Road to China:
The Mekong River Expedition, 1866[-]1873, London: Allen and
Unwin, and New York: Liveright, 1975
Petit, Edouard, Francis
Garnier: sa vie, ses voyages, son oeuvre … d’après une correspondance
inédite, Paris: Dreyfous et Dalsace, 1894
Herman Melville 1819[-]1891
Travel Writing
The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839[-]1860; includes The Piazza Tales, 1856; edited by Harrison Hayford et al., 1987
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, also as Narrative
of a Four Months’ Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the
Marquesas Islands, 1846; edited by Harrison Hayford, Hershel
Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle, 1968
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, 1847; edited by Harrison Hayford,
Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle, 1968
Mardi: and a Voyage Thither, 1849; edited by Harrison Hayford et al., 1970
Redburn: His First Voyage, Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminscences
of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service, 1849; edited by Harrison Hayford
et al., 1969
Journal of a Visit to London and the Continent, 1849[-]1850, edited by Eleanor Melville Metcalf,
1948
Whitejacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War, 1850; edited by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker
and G. Thomas Tanselle, 1970
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale, also as The Whale, 1851; edited
by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle, 1988
Pierre: or the Ambiguities, 1852; edited by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle,
historical note by Leon Howard and Hershel Parker, 1971
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, 1855; edited by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker
and G. Thomas Tanselle, 1982
Journal of a Visit to Europe and the Levant, October 11, 1856[-]May 6,
1857,
edited by Howard C. Horsford, 1955
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, 1857; edited by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker
and G. Thomas Tanselle, 1984
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, 1866; edited by Hennig Cohen, 1963
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, 1876; edited by Harrison Hayford
et al., 1991
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), written
1888[-]91, published 1924; edited by Harrison Hayford and Merton
M Sealts, Jr., 1962
Weeds and Wildings Chiefly: With a Rose or Two, collected 1891, published 1924; edited
by Robert Charles Ryan, 1967
Selected Poems of Herman Melville, edited by Hennig Cohen, 1964
Further Reading
Bryant, John (editor), A Companion to Melville Studies, New York:
Greenwood Press, 1986
Bryant, John and Robert Milder (editors),
Melville’s Evermoving Dawn:
Centennial Essays, Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press,
1997
Dryden, Edgar A., Melville’s Thematics of Form: The Great Art
of Telling the Truth, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968
Gale, Robert L., A Herman Melville Encyclopedia, Westport,
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1995
Jehlen, Myra (editor), Herman Melville: A Collection of Critical Essays,
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1994
Levine, Robert S. (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville,
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998
Leyda, Jay (editor), The Melville Log: A Documentary Life of Herman
Melville, 1819-1891, 2 vols, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1951;
reprint with supplement, New York: Gordian Press, 1969
Parker, Hershel, Herman Melville: A Biography, vol. 1: 1819[-]1851, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1996
Robertson-Lorant, Laurie, Melville: A Biography, New York: Clarkson
Potter, 1996
Samson, John, White Lies: Melville’s Narratives of Facts, Ithaca, New York: Cornell
University Press, 1989
Sealts, Merton M. Jr, Melville as Lecturer, Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press, 1957
Mesopotamia
Travel
Writing
Ainsworth,
William, Researches in Assyria,
Babylonia and Chaldag: Forming Part of the Labors of the Euphrates
Expedition, 1838
Ainsworth,
William, A Personal Narrative
of the Euphrates Expedition,
2 vols, 1888
Alexander,
Constance M., Baghad in
Bygone Days: From the Journals and Correspondence of Claudius
Rich, Traveller, Artist, Linguist, Antiquary and British Resident
in Baghdad, 1808[-]1821, 1928
Anville,
Monsieur d’, L’Euphrate
et le Tigre, 1779
Early
French travelogue.
Beauchamp.
L’Abbé de, Journal des Scavarr,
1791
In
the country as the Pope’s Vicar General in Baghdad Beauchamp examined
the site of Babylon and reported sightings of carved and inscribed
monuments.
Bell,
Gertrude, Amurath to Amurath,
1911; 2nd edition, 1924
Blunt,
Lady Anne, Bedouin Tribes
of the Euphrates, 2 vols, 1879; reprinted, 1968
Description
of journeys into the Western desert from long-term resident and
missionary in Baghdad with much ethnographic material.
Buckingham,
James Silk, Travels in Mesopotamia,
2 vols, 1827
Budge,
E.A. Wallis, By Nile and
Tigris: A Narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf
of the British Museum between the Years 1886[-]1913, 1820;
reprinted, 1975
Chesney,
F.R., The Expedition for
the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, Carried on by Order
of the British Government, in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837;
Preceded by Geographical and Historical Notices of the Regions
between the Rivers Nile and Indus, 4 vols, 1850
Coke,
Richard, Baghdad: The City
of Peace, 1927
Primarily
historical account of Baghdad.
della
Valle, Pietro, Viaggi de
Pietro della Valle il pellegrino, 1650[-]63; as Les
Fameux Voyages de Pietro della Valle, 4 vols, 1663; part 3
translated by George Havers, 1665
Italian
nobleman who travelled widely in the Middle East and further afield.
He documents a real interest in Mesopotamian antiquities and took
bricks with cuneiform inscriptions with him which were the first
to reach Europe.
Dickson,
Mora, Baghdad and Beyond, 1961
Account
of holy sites and major religious festivals, as well as descriptions
of life in Baghdad and the marshes by the wife of Dennis Dobson,
who lived in Iraq in the 1955.
Eldred,
John, The Voyage of Mr John
Eldred to Trypolis in Syria by Sea, and from thence by Land to
Babylon and Balsara, 1583
Account
by an Elizabethan merchant of his travels to Baghdad which he
describes as the “New Babylon”.
Fernea,
Elizabeth W., Guests of
the Sheikh, 1965
Account
of Iraqi village life from the view of an anthropologist’s wife.
Fletcher,
J.P., Notes from Nineveh:
And Travels in Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Syria 1850
Fraser,
J. Baillie, Travels in Koordistan,
Mesopotamia, etc., 2
vols, 1840
Fulanain,
Haji Rikkan: Marsh Arab, 1927
Account
of journeys with marsh tribes by S.E. Hedgcock who used the pseudonym
Fulanain.
Gockel,
Wolfgang, Irak: Sumerische
Tempel, Babylon’s Paläste und heilige Stätten des Islam im Zweistromland,
2001
Recent
guide book on the market, lavishly illustrated, part of the Dumont
series of travel books.
Groves,
Anthony N., Journal of a
Residence at Bagdad during the Years 1830 and 1831, 1832
Herodotus,
The Histories, translated by Aubrey de
Sélincourt, 1954
Isodorus,
Characenus, Parthian Stations
in Geographii Greaci Minores, by in C. Müller,vol. 1, 1885; translated
by Wilfred H. Schoff, 1914; reprinted, 1976
Jackson,
John, Journey from India
towards England in the Year 1797, by
a Route Commonly Called Over-Land …, 1799
Layard,
Austen Henry, Nineveh and
its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaan Christians
of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers; and an Enquiry
into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, 2 vols,
1849
Layard,
Austen Henry, The Monuments
of Nineveh: From Drawings Made on the Spot, 5 vols, 1849
Layard,
Austen Henry, A Popular
Account of Discoveries at Nineveh, 1852
Layard,
Austen Henry, Discoveries
in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; With Travels in Armenia,
Kurdistan and the Desert: Being the Result of a Second Expedition
Undertaken for the Trustees of the British Museum, 1853
Layard,
Austen Henry, Early Adventures
in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia. Including a Residence among
the Bakhtiyari and Other Wild Tribes before the Discovery of Nineveh,
1887; reprinted, 1971
Loftus
W.K., Travels and Researches
in Chaldaa and Susiana, 1857; reprinted, 1971
Maxwell,
Gavin, A Reed Shaken by
the Wind, 1957
Journeys
through the marshes inspired by Wilfred Thesiger.
Mitford,
E.L., A Land-March from
England to Ceylon Forty Years Ago, 1884
Munier,
Gilles, Le Guide de l’Irak:
10.000 ans d’histoire en Mesopotamie, 2000
Recent
French travel guide.
Murchio,
Vincenzo Maria, Il Viaggi
all Indie Orientali, del padre F. Vincenzo Maria di S. Caterina
da Sienna, 1678
Musil,
Alois, The Middle Euphrates:
A Topographical Itinerary, 1927; reprinted, 1978
Newman,
John P., The Thrones and
Palaces of Babylon and Nineveh: From Sea to Sea: A Thousand Miles
on Horseback, 1876
Niebuhr,
Carsten, Reisebeschreibung
nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern, vols 1[-]2, 1774[-]78;
vol. 3, edited by J.N. Gloyer and J. Olshausen, 1837; reprinted
with a foreword by Dietmar Henze, 1968; vol. 1 as Travels
through Arabia and Other Countries in the East, vol. 1, translated
by Robert Heron, 1972; facsimile, 1994
Otter,
Jean, Voyage en Turquie
et en Perse, 1748
Place,
Victor, Ninive et l’Assyrie,
3 vols, 1867[-]70
Porter,
Robert Ker, Travels in Georgia,
Perisa, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia etc., 2 vols, 1821[-]22
Rassam,
Hormuzd, Asshur and the
Land of Nimrod: Being an Account of the Discoveries Made in the
Ancient Ruins of Nininevh, Asshur, Sepharvim, Calah, Babylon,
Borsippa, Cutha, and Van, Including a Narrative of Different Journeys
in Mesopotamia, Assyria, Asia Minor, and Koordistan, 1897
Ratisbon,
Petahiah ben Jacob, Travels
of Rabbi Petachiah of Ratisbon: Who in the Later End of the Twelfth
Century, Visited Poland, Russia, Little Tartary, the Crimea, Armenia,
Assyria, Syria, the Holy Land, and Greece, translated from
the Hebrew by A. Benisch, 1856
Jewish
rabbi from Germany visiting Jewish communities in the East.
Rauwolff,
Leonhard, Aigentliche Beschreibung
der Raisz, 1583, in A
Collection of Curious Travels &
Voyages, 2 vols, translated by Nicholas Staphorst, 1693
German
physician’s adventures in the 17th century.
Rich,
Claudius James, Narrative
of a Residence in Koordistan and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh,
2 vols, 1836
Rich,
Claudius James, Narrative
of a Journey to the Site of Babylon in 1811, 1839
Two
important books by the Resident in Baghdad, on peoples, sites
and archaeological remains of Mesopotamia.
Schiltberger,
Johann, The Bondage and
Travels of Johann Schiltberger: A Native of Bavaria, in Europe,
Asia and Africa, translated by J. Buchan Telfer, 1879
Soane,
E.B., To Mesopotamia and
Kurdistan in Disguise: A Narrative of a Journey from Constantinople
through Kurdistan to Baghdad 1907[-]1909, with Historical and
Ethnographical Notices of the Various Kurdish tribes, of the Chaldeans
of Kurdistan, 1912; second edition, 1979
Stark,
Freya, Baghdad Sketches,
1937
Stewart,
Desmond and John Haylock, New
Babylon: A Portrait of Iraq, 1956
Travelogue
with chapters entitled such as ‘schools, People, Pleasures. Love,
Poetry, Kurds, Politics’.
Strabo,
Geographia, 1472; as The Geography of Strabo, translated by
H.C. Hamilton and W. Falconer, 1854[-]57; as Geography, translated by Horace Leonard Jones, 1917[-]49
Tavernier,
Jean-Baptiste, Les six voyages
de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier: ecuyer baron d’Aubonne, en Turquie,
en Perse, et aux Indes …, 1676; as The
Six Voyages of Jean Baptista Tavernier: A Noble Man of France
now Living, Through Turkey into Perisa and the East Indies, Finished
in the Year 1670, 1678
Thesiger,
Wilfred, The Marsh Arabs, 1964
Classic
Thesiger account of his visits to the Bedouin in southern Iraq.
Ellis,
Tristram On a Raft and through
the Desert: The Narrative of an Artist’s Journey through Northern
Syria and Kurdistan …, 1881
Account
of an artist’s journeys in the 1870s.
Tudela,
Benjamin of, The Itinerary
of Benjamin of Tudela, translated by Marcus Nathan Adler,
1907
Jewish
rabbi from Spain who visited Jewish communities in the East.
Ussher
John, A Journey from London
to Persepolis: Including Wanderings in Daghestan, Georgia, Aremia,
Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, and Persia, 1865
Young,
Gavin, Return to the Marshes:
Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq,
photographs by Nik Wheeler, 1977
Description
of the changes in the marshes since the author’s first visit in
the 1950s.
Young,
Gavin, Iraq: Land of Two
Rivers, 1980
Tries
to “describe what any traveller may expect to see as moves about
Iraq and to explain more or less what it means and why it is there”.
Xenophon,
The Persian Expedition, translated by Rex
Warner, 1949
William Methwold 1590[-]1653
Travel
Writing
Purchas,
Samuel (editor), “Relations of the Kingdome of Golchonda and other
neighbouring Nations within the Gulfe of Bengala ... by Master
William Methold” in Purchas his Pilgrimage, 4th edition, 1626
In
his enlogistic introduction Purchas says he had hoped to include
Methwold in Pilgrimes, 1625, but was frustrated “so
many times both by messages and in person [due to] the Author’s
absence or business”.
Moreland,
W.H. (editor), Relations
of Golconda in the Early Seventeenth Century, 1931
Reprints
Purchas’s text, extensively annotated; includes details of subsequent
French and Dutch translations; adds annotated translations of
two contemporary Dutch accounts; biographical details of Methwold.
Methwold’s
other extant travel writings are contained in his correspondence
and reports to the company, mainly calendared but otherwise only
partly published -- see below.
Further
Reading
A Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, East
Indies, vols 1[-]5, to 1634 continued as A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, by Ethel
Bruce Sainsbury with a preface, introduction and notes by William
Foster, vols 6[-]9, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907[-]13
Foster,
William (editor), Letters
Received by the East India Company from Its Servants in the East,
vols 4[-]6, London: Sampson Low Marston, 1900[-]02
Foster,
William (editor), The English
Factories in India, 1618[-]1621 a Calendar of Documents in the
India Office, British Museum and Public Record Office …, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1906[-]55
Ingram,
A.R., The Gateway to India:
The Story of Methwold and Bombay, London and New York: Oxford
University Press, 1938
Full
biography; misdates year of death as 1654.
Pennington,
L.E. (editor), The Purchas
Handbook, 2 vols, London: Hakluyt Society, 1997
Prasad,
Ram Chandra, Early English
Travellers in India: A Study in the Travel Literature of the Early
Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods with Particular Reference to
India, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1965; revised edition,
1980
Tavernier,
Jean-Baptiste, Travels in
India, edited and translated by V. Ball, 2 vols, London and
New York: Macmillan, 1889; edited by William Crooke, London: Oxford
University Press, 1925
Mexico
Travel
Writing
Alexander,
J. Park, Mexico: Facts about
the Republic of Mexico, Gathered in a Recent Brief Visit, and
Informally set Down in a Series of Letters to His Family,
1890
Alvensleben,
Maximilian von, With Maximilian
in Mexico: From the Notebook of a Mexican Officer, 1867
Anonymous
[Forbes, Alexander C.], A
Trip to Mexico; or, Recollections of a Ten-Month’s Ramble in 1849[-]50.
By a barrister, 1851
Forbes,
who later became one of the partners of the English firm of Barron
& Forbes in San Blas, describes his voyage to the Pacific
coast –a route not usually followed by travellers in Mexico.
Anson,
George, A Voyage round the
World, 1753
When
an incident between a British captain and a Spanish customs officer
sparked the so-called “War of Jenkins’ ear”, Admiral Anson was
sent on a “cruising voyage” against the Spanish possessions in
America. His successful capture of the legendary Manila galleon
made his account a best-seller.
Bedford,
Sybille, The Sudden View:
A Mexican Journey, 1953; new edition, as A
Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller’s Tale from Mexico, 1960
An
amusing and warm-hearted account of a trip around Mexico.
Brocklehurst,
Thomas Unnet, Mexico To-Day:
A Country with a Great Future, and a Glance at the Prehistoric
Remains and Antiquities of the Montezumans, 1883
Bullock,
William, Six Month’s Residence
and Travels in Mexico; Containing Remarks on the Present State
of New Spain, Its Natural Productions, State of Society, Manufactures,
Trade, Agriculture and Antiquities, etc., 1824
Perhaps
one of the best-known accounts by a Briton in Mexico. Its author,
museum owner and collector, was sent to Mexico as commissioner
for an English mining company.
Calderón
de la Barca, Fanny, Life
in Mexico, during a Residence of Two Years in That Country,
1843
Chatty
travelogue with good historical detail.
Chase,
Stuart with Marian Tyler, Mexico:
A Study of Two Americas, 1931
Very
popular account with illustrations by Diego Rivera.
Cohan,
Tony, On Mexican Time: A
New Life in San Miguel, 1999
An
account by yet another foreigner who moves into the “gringo”-packed
town of San Miguel, and succumbs to the stereotype of Mexico’s
slow pace of life.
Cook,
James, Remarks on a Passage
from the River Belice in the Bay of Honduras to Merida, 1765,
1769; facsimile, 1935
The
author, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, was sent to report on
the dispute between Spanish Crown and English wood-cutters in
the Bay of Honduras.
Dampier,
William, A New Voyage round
the World, 1697
During
his voyage of circumnavigation, the author, a buccaneer and fellow
of the Royal Society, sailed along the Pacific coast of Mexico
in the hope of capturing a ship of the Spanish Pacific fleet.
Díaz
del Castillo, Bernal, Historia
verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva-España, 1632; as The True History of the Conquest of Mexico, translated by Maurice
Keatinge, 1800
Straightforward
account relied on by many subsequent historians for information
about the conquest.
Elton,
J.F., With the French in
Mexico, 1867
An
unlikely account by an English volunteer among French troops during
the last days of the ill-fated Mexican empire
Flandrau,
Charles M, Viva Mexico!,
1908
Travel
narrative based on series of visits to his brother’s coffee plantation,
and trips to Puebla, Mexico City and Cuernavaca.
Gage,
Thomas, The English-American
his Travail by Sea and Land: or A New Survey of the West-India’s,
containing a Journall of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles
within the main Land of America, 1648; as Thomas
Gage’s Travels in the New World, edited by J. Eric S. Thompson,
1958
First
published survey of Mexico that remains one of the most influential
books written in English on Mexico.
Gallop,
Rodney, Mexican Mosaic,
1939; reprinted, 1990
Indian
traditions and customs are key component.
Geiger,
John Lewis, A Peep at Mexico:
Narrative of a Journey across the Republic from the Pacific to
the Gulf in December 1873 and January 1874, 1874
Greene,
Graham, The Lawless Roads:
A Mexican Journey, 1939
Travelogue
written to highlight the ban on the Catholic Church by President
Carranza’s Mexican Constitution of 1917.
Hahner,
June E. (editor), Women
through Women’s Eyes: Latin American Women in Nineteenth-Century
Travel Accounts, 1993
This
anthology offers a limited selection of extracts but contains
an excellent bibliography on women, mostly from the United States
and Britain, travelling in Latin America.
Hakluyt,
Richard, The Principal Navigations,
Voyages & Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or
Over Land, to the Most Remote and Farthest Corners of the Earth,
1589; revised edition as The
Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & and Discoveries
of the English Nation, 3 vols, 1598[-]1600
Hakluyt
included the earliest known accounts of Elizabethan merchants
and seamen in Mexico: Robert Tomson (1561); John Chilton (1561);
Roger Bodenham (1564); John Hawkins (1568); Miles Philips (1568);
David Ingram (1568); Henry Hawks (1571). He also incorporated
the account of Francis Drake’s Mexican stopover during his voyage
of circumnavigation (1577[-]80), and the story of Thomas Cavendish’s
famous raid on a Spanish treasure ship. The revised edition included
an account published by Job Hortop and left out the one by David
Ingram -- who was believed by Hakluyt to have been economic with
the truth.
Hall,
Basil, Extracts from a Journal
Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico, in the Years
1820, 1821, 1822, 2 vols, 1824
Basil
Hall, a captain in the Royal Navy who had already published some
accounts of his travels in East Asia, published the first known
account of a voyage to independent Mexico.
Hall
Bullock, William, Across
Mexico in 1864[-]5, 1866
A
seasoned traveller who claimed to be merely a leisurely tourist
in Mexico during the reign of Maximillian, Hall Bullock offers
some extraordinary insight into the life of British expatriates
-- including a memorable description of a cricket match in Mexico
City.
Hardy,
R.W.H., Travels in the Interior
of Mexico in 1825, 1826, 1827 & 1828, 1829
A
lieutenant in the Royal Navy, Hardy arrived in the country to
prospect for pearls in the Gulf of Mexico.
Hawkins,
John, A True Declaration
of the Troublesome Voyage of Mr. John Hawkins to the Parts of
Guynea and the West Indies, in the Yeares of Our Lord 1567 and
1568, 1569; facsimile, 1973
Later
incorporated into Hakluyt’s collection, this is the earliest description
of the infamously ill-fated slaving expedition, and the ambush
that led to the abandonment and capture of many English seamen.
Hickman,
Katie, A Trip to the Light
Fantastic: Travels with a Mexican Circus, 1993
Circus-based
excursions around Mexico that belongs to late 20th-century adventure
travel writing.
Hortop,
Job, The Rare Travailes
of Job Hortop, an Englishman, 1591; facsimile, 1972
Although
it appeared too late to be included in Hakluyt’s first edition,
this brief account was included in the second enlarged edition.
Humboldt,
Alexander von, Vues des
Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique,
2 vols, 1810; as Researches Concerning the Institutions and
Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America, with Descriptions
and Views of some of the most striking Scenes in the Cordilleras,
translated by Helen Maria Williams, 2 vols, 1814
Humboldt,
Alexander von, Essai politique
sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne, 2 vols, 1811; as Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, translated by John Black,
4 vols, 1811; abridged edition with an introduction by Mary Maples
Dunn, 1972
Key
work that chartered previously unknown territory.
Huxley,
Aldous, Beyond the Mexique
Bay, 1934
Journey
inspired by D.H. Lawrence.
James,
Edward, Remarks on the Mines,
Management, Ores, &c., &c., of the District of Guanaxuato,
Belonging to the Anglo Mexican Mining Association, by…
Late a Mine-Agent in the Service of that Association, 1827
Las
Casas, Bartolomé de, Brevissima
relación de la destruyción de las Indias, 1552; The
Tears of the Indians: Being an Historical and True Account of
the Cruel Massacres and Slaughters of above Twenty Millions of
Innocent People, Committed by the Spaniards in the Islands of
Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, &c.: as also in the Continent of
Mexico, Peru & other places of the West-Indies, to the Total
Destruction of those Countries, translated from the Spanish
by John Phillips, 1656; as The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account,
translated by Herma Briffault, 1974
Lawrence,
D.H., Mornings in Mexico,
1927
Three
sketches of daily rural life written in Oaxaca.
Lempriere,
Charles, Notes in Mexico,
in 1861 and 1862; Politically and Socially Considered, 1862
Lewis,
Oscar, The Children of Sánchez:
Autobiography of a Mexican Family, 1961
An
Attempt to let Mexicans speak for themselves.
López
de Gómara, Francisco, La
Istoria de las Indias, y Conquista de Mexico, 2 vols, 1552;
part 2 as The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the Weast India, translated
by Thomas Nicholas, 1578
Account
of the conquest by Cortés’s secretary.
Lyon,
George Francis, Journal
of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the Year
1826, 2 vols, 1828; reprinted, 1971
Livelier
than Ward’s and more reliable than Bullock’s, Lyon’s account of
his time as commissioner to a mining company in Mexico is useful
in pointing out the gap between the expectations of Mexico created
abroad and the reality faced by travellers.
Penny,
Edward B., A Sketch of the
Customs and Society of Mexico: In a Series of Familiar Letters
and a Journal of Travels in the Interior between the Years 1824,
1825, 1826, 1828
The
book alternates between letters by the author, a merchant, to
an unknown correspondent in London, and a personal diary in which
he describes the state of the newly independent country.
Morris,
Mary, Nothing to Declare:
Memoirs of a Woman Travelling Alone, 1988
Poinsett,
Joel Roberts, Notes on Mexico,
Made in the Autumn of 1822 (published anonymously), 1824;
reprinted, 1969
Porter,
Katherine Anne, The Collected
Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter, 1970
Porter’s
journalism captures Mexico in the years immediately following
the revolution.
Purchas,
Samuel, Purchas His Pilgrimes,
4 vols, 1625
Besides
unpublished chronicles of Spanish discovery in America, Purchas
included the first printed version of the Mexican Codex Mendoza.
Rider
Haggard, H., The Days of
My Life: An Autobiography, vol. 2, 1926
The
famous author of King Solomon’s
Mines describes how he was lured to Mexico by the prospect
of mining profits. His Mexican sojourn inspired another best-selling
novel, Montezuma’s Daughter, about an Elizabethan
youth who sails to the New World.
Robertson,
William Parish, A Visit
to Mexico, by the West India islands, Yucatan and United States,
with Observations and Adventures on the way,
2 vols, 1853
Rogers,
Woodes, A Cruising Voyage
round the World: First to the South-Sea, thence to the East Indies,
and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope, begun in 1708 and Finish’d
in 1711, 1718; with an introduction by Percy G. Adams, 1970
The
author offers another account of the Mexican coast as seen during
a voyage of circumnavigation.
Ruxton,
George F., Adventures in
Mexico and the Rocky Mountains, 1847
A
scathing description of Mexico at the time of its war with the
United States.
Sampson
Poole, Annie, Mexicans at
Home in the Interior: By a Resident, 1884
The
author was married to the English director of a silver mint in
Guanajuato. Her book records her impressions of domestic life
and her experiences as the only English-speaking woman in the
town. Some of the anecdotes seem to be borrowed from Calderón.
Shelvocke,
George, A voyage round the
World by Way of the Great South Sea, Perform’d in
the Years 1719, 1720, 1721, 1722, in the Speedwell of London,
of 2 guns and 100 men (under His Majesty’s Commission to Cruise
on the Spaniards in the Late War with the Spanish Crown),
1726; reprinted, 1971
Spratling,
William, Little Mexico,
1932; as A Small Mexican World, 1964
Account
of life in Taxco where Spratling single-handedly reintroduced
the silver industry.
Stephens,
John L., Incidents of Travel
in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, 2 vols, 1841
Illustrated
with Frederick Catherwood’s drawings, crucial text responsible
for bringing the Mayan civilisation to Western attention.
Theroux,
Paul, The Old Patagonian
Express: By Train through the Americas, 1979
Mexico
is one of many stops in this very popular travel book.
Thompson,
G.A., Narrative of an Official
Visit to Guatemala from Mexico, 1829
The
author, secretary to the British commission in Mexico, was later
sent to report on the state of the Central American republics.
His book originally included seven extra chapters about his time
in Mexico, all of which were extricated before publication.
Tree,
Isabella, Sliced Iguana:
Travels in Uknown Mexico, 2001
The
author, well acquainted with Mexican culture, travels through
the country in an attempt to find the “genuine” Mexico.
Tweedie,
Mrs Alec, Mexico as I Saw
It, 1901
Already
a famous travel writer by the time she went to Mexico, the well-connected
author became very close to the Mexican president, whose biography
she later wrote.
Tylor,
Edward B., Anahuac: or,
Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern, 1861
The
author’s Mexican experience would prove crucial in the later writing
of his famous book on Primitive
Cultures.
Vigne,
G.T., Travels in Mexico,
South America, etc., etc., 1865
The
title is misleading, as this is more about south America and less
about Mexico -- a country the author seems not have travelled
through as extensively as he claimed.
Villoro,
Juan, Palmeras de la brisa
rápida, 1989
A
memoir of youthful travel through the Yucatán peninsula by one
of Mexico’s foremost contemporary authors.
Wafer,
Lionel, A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America …, 1699
Ward,
Henry George, Mexico in
1827, 2 vols, 1828; expanded edition as Mexico, 1929
As
His Britannic Majesty’s commissioner to Mexico, Ward was responsible
for the establishment of diplomatic relations between both countries
soon after Mexican independence. His first volume, based on the
Humboldtian model, describes the political and economic state
of the country; the second volume contains his personal narrative.
Poorly written account with illustrations
by his wife.
Waugh,
Evelyn, Robbery Under Law:
The Mexican Object-Lesson, 1939
Study
of Mexico during the oil expropriation of 1930s.
Wavell,
A.G., Notes and Reflections
on Mexico, Its Mines, Policy, &c. By a Traveller, Some Years
Resident in That and Other American States, 1827
Woodcock,
George, To the City of the
Dead: An Account of Travels in Mexico, 1957
Interest
in Malcolm Lowry and Aldous Huxley added to Woodcock’s narrative.
Wright,
Ronald, Time among the Maya:
Travels in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico, 1989
Further
Reading
Aydelotte,
Frank, “Elizabethan Seamen in Mexico”, The
American Historical Review,
48/1 (October 1942)
Bowen,
C.M., “Elizabethan Travel Literature”, Blackwood’s
Magazine, 200 (October 1916)
Brading,
D.A, The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole
Patriots and the Liberal State, 1492[-]1867, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1991
Includes
an insightful chapter on the intellectual import of Alexander
von Humboldt.
Brunhouse,
Robert L., En busca de los
Mayas: los primeros arqueólogos (1973, transl. J. Ferreiro)
Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1989
An
informative introduction to some of the most conspicuous foreigners
who visited Mexico to study the ruins of Mayan civilisation.
Caistor,
Nick, Mexico City: A Cultural and Literary Companion,
Oxford: Signal Books, and New York: Interlink Books, 2000
Although
it is based on the author’s first-hand knowledge of the country,
this is more of a “reader” of key texts concerning popular culture
than a travelogue. It does, however, make good use of historical
accounts of travel such as Gage’s and Calderón’s.
Delpar,
Helen, The Enormous Vogue
of Things Mexican: Cultural Relations between the United States
and Mexico, 1920[-]1935, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama
Press, 1992
Flores
Salinas, Berta, México visto
por algunos de sus viajeros: Siglos XVI y XVII, Mexico City:
Ediciones Botas, 1964
A
poor analysis of the sources if offset by the fact that this was
the first scholarly work to study early travellers’ tales critically.
Fussell,
Paul, Abroad: British Literary
Traveling between the Wars: New York and Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1980
Goodman,
Edward J., The Explorers
of South America, New York: MacMillan, 1972
Greenblatt,
Stephen J., Marvelous Possessions:
The Wonder of the New World, Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, and Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991
Greenblatt,
Stephen J. (editor), New
World Encounters, Berkeley: University of California Press,
1993
Gunn,
Drewey Wayne, American and
British Writers in Mexico 1556[-]1973, Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1974
Gunn,
Drewey Wayne, Mexico in
American and British Letters: A Bibiliography of Fiction and Travel
Books, Citing Original, Editions, Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow
Press, 1974
Humboldt,
Alexander von, Selections
from the Works of the Baron de Humboldt, Relating to the Climate,
Inhabitants, Productions and Mines of Mexico, edited by John
Taylor, London: Longman, 1824
Taylor,
director of an English-owned mine in Mexico, chose to publish
extracts from Humboldt’s work related to gold and silver mining.
Ita
Rubio, Lourdes de , Viajeros
Isabelinos en la Nueva España, Hidalgo: Universidad Michoacana
de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, 2001
A
thorough study of the earliest accounts of Englishmen in Mexico.
Iturriaga
de la Fuente, José, Anecdotario
de viajeros extranjeros en México: siglos XVI[-]XX, Mexico
City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 4 vols, 1988[-]92
Although
his interpretation of texts is often coloured by a certain type
of naïve patriotism, Iturriaga has collected what constitutes,
by far, the most comprehensive bibliography of narratives of travel
to Mexico (1600 authors, 1921 texts). His four volumes offer hundreds
of extracts from a selection of the better-known accounts.
Leask,
Nigel, “‘The Ghost in Chapultepec’: Fanny Calderón de la Barca,
William Prescott and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Travel Accounts”
in Voyages and Cisions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel, edited
by Jaś Elsner, and Joan-Paul Rubiés, London: Reaktion, 1999
This
provocative reassessment of Calderón’s narrative gives great consideration
to the context and circumstances surrounding the book’s publication.
Leask,
Nigel (editor), Travels,
Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Expansion,
1770[-]1835, vol. 7: South America and the Caribbean, Brookfield,
Vermont, and London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001
This
anthology of travel narratives includes descriptions of Mexico
by Basil Hall and William Bullock.
Leask,
Nigel, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing,
1770[-]1840, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
2002
A
study of the Romantic obsession with the “antique lands” of Ethiopia,
Egypt, India, and Mexico, focusing on the unstable discourse of
"curiosity" to offer an important reformulation of the
relations between literature, aesthetics, and colonialism in the
period.
Mayer,
William, Early Travellers
in Mexico, 1534 to 1816, Mexico City: Cultura, 1961
McKenzie
Johnston, Henry, Missions
to Mexico: A Tale of British Diplomacy in the 1820s, London
and New York: British Academic Press, 1992
This
detailed account of the efforts to establish diplomatic relations
between Mexico and Great Britain explains the role played by two
of the period’s most authoritative travel writers, Ward and Thompson.
Morris,
Mary (editor), Maiden Voyages:
Writings of Women Travelers, New York: Vintage, 1993; as The Virago Book of Women Travellers, London: Virago, 1994
Moya
Palencia, Mario, El México
de Egerton, 1831[-]1842, Mexico City: Porrúa, 1991
A
novel about the life and travels of Daniel Thomas Egerton, a Victorian
painter who travelled to, and was brutally murdered in, Mexico.
Thoroughly researched, although not very well written.
O’Reilly,
James and Larry Habegger (editors), Travelers’
Tales: Mexico: True Stories, San Francisco: Travelers’ Tales,
1995; revised edition, 2001
Includes
accounts by Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes.
Ortega
y Medina, Juan A., México
en la conciencia anglosajona, Mexico City: Porrúa, 1953
Places
the early English narratives of travel to Mexico in the period’s
geopolitical and intellectual context.
Payno,
Manuel, Un viaje a Veracruz en el invierno de 1843,
Xalapa: Univerisdad Veracruzana, 1984
Pitman,
Thea, Cuadernos de viaje: Contemporary Mexican Travel-Chronicles,
Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001
Focuses
on accounts by Mexican travellers both in and outside Mexico.
Pratt,
Mary Louise, Imperial Eyes:
Travel Writing and Transculturation, London and New York:
Routledge, 1992
Ryan,
Alan (editor), The Reader’s
Companion to Mexico, San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995
Tomson,
Robert, edited by G.R.G.
Conway, An Englishman
and the Mexican Inquisition, 1556[-]1560: Being an Account of
the Voyage of Robert Tomson to New Spain, His Trial for Heresy
in the City of Mexico and Other Contemporary Historical Documents,
Mexico City: privately printed, 1927
This
book reproduces Robert Tomson’s account of his captivity in Mexico
and includes transcripts of Inquisition files related to Tomson’s
trial.
Viajeros Europeos del siglo XIX en México,
Mexico City: Fomento Cultural Banamex, 1996
Commissioned
as the accompanying text for an art exhibition, this collection
of essays is mainly concerned with the painterly depiction of
Mexico by foreign travellers.
Walker,
Ronald G., Infernal Paradise:
Mexico and the Modern English Novel, Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1978
Welch, Thomas and Myriam Figueras (editors), Travel Accounts and Descriptions of Latin American and the Caribbean.
1800[-]1920: A Selected Bibliography, Washington: Organization
of American States, 1982
Wilson,
Jason, Traveller’s Literary
Companion to South and Central America, Brighton: In Print,
1993
Zavala, Silvio, América en el
espíritu francés del siglo XVIII, Mexico City: El Colegio
Nacional, 1949; 2nd edition, 1983
Although
this is mostly a book on intellectual history, it includes an
entire section on the importance of accounts of travel in shaping
French perceptions of Hispanic America.
Additional
bibliographical information by Angel Gurria Quintana
Military Memoirs
Travel Writing
Alexander, Edward Porter,
Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of
General Edward Porter Alexander,
edited by Gary W. Gallagher, 1989
Anderson, G.H., African Safaris, foreword by Lord Cranworth, 1946
Blakiston, John, Twelve Years’ Military Adventure in Three Quarters
of the Globe: or, Memoirs of an Officer who Served in the Armies
of His Majesty and of the East India Company, between the years
1802 and 1814, in which are Contained the Campaigns of the Duke
of Wellington in India, and his last in Spain and the South of
France, 2 vols, 1829
Bourgogne, Adrien Jean
Baptiste François, The Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, 1812[-]1813, translated and edited by Paul Cottin and Maurice Hénault,
foreword and introduction by David G. Chandler, 1979
Caesar, Julius, The Conquest of Gaul, translated by S.A. Handford, 1951; revised with
a new introduction by Jane F. Gardner, 1982
Chandler, David (editor), Robert Parker and Comte de Mérode-Westerloo:
The Marlborough Wars, 1968
Churchill, Winston S., My Early Life: A Roving Commission, introduction
by William Manchester, 1996
Coignet, Jean-Roch, The Narrative
of Captain Coignet (Soldier of the Empire) 1776[-]1850, edited from the original manuscript by
Lorédan Larchey; translated from the French by Mrs. M. Carey,
1890
Deane, John Marshall, A Journal of Marlborough’s Campaigns During
the War of the Spanish Succession, 1704[-]1711, edited by
D.G. Chandler, 1984
Grant, Ulysses S., Memoirs and Selected Letters, 1990
Hynes, Samuel, Flights
of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator, 1988
Hynes, Samuel, The Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War, 1997
Jünger, Ernst, The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-troop Officer
on the Western Front, by Ernst Jünger, Lieutenant, 73rd Hanoverian
Fusilier Regiment, translated by Basil Creighton with
an introduction by R.H. Mottram, 1929
Lawrence, T.E., Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, 1938
Luck, Hans von, Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck, introduction
by Stephen E. Ambrose, 1989
MacArthur, Douglas, Reminiscences,
1964
Maclean, Fitzroy, Eastern Approaches, 1949
Classic account of adventures military
and diplomatic, before and during the Second World War, from Stalin’s
Russia to Tito’s Yugoslavia, via Central Asia and North Africa.
Masters, John, The Road Past Mandalay: A Personal Narrative, 1961
Monluc, Blaise de, The Habsburg-Valois
Wars and the French Wars of Religion, translated by Charles Cotton, edited by
Ian Roy, 1971
Monro, Robert, Monro, his Expedition
with the Worthy Scots Regiment called Mac-Keys, edited by William S. Brockington Jr, foreword
by Geoffrey Parker, 1999
Ottley, W.J., With Mounted Infantry in Tibet, 1906
Flamboyant and fearless Irish major
on Younghusband’s 1904 expedition to Lhasa.
Pagonis, William G., with Jeffrey L.
Cruikshank, Moving Mountains:
Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War, 1992
Peniakoff, Vladimir, Private Army, 1950
Second World War actions in North Africa
and Italy as seen by a Russian leading his own small unit (“Popski’s
Private Army”).
Pester, John, War and Sport in India, 1802[-]1806: An Officer’s Diary, edited by
J.A. Devenish, 1913
Roosevelt, Theodore, The Rough
Riders, 1899
Slatin, Rudolf, Feuer und Schwert im Sudan, 1896; as Fire and Sword in the Sudan: A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving
the Dervishes, 1879[-]1895, translated by Major F.R. Wingate,
3 vols, 1896; reprinted, 1990
Sledge, E.B., With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, 1981
Vernon, Alex with Neil Creighton Jr.
et al., The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War, foreword by Barry R. McCaffrey, 1999
Watkins, Sam R., “Co. Aytch”: A Side Show of the Big Show,
introduction by Roy P. Basler, 1962 (originally published 1882)
Xenophon, The Persian Expedition, translated by Rex Warner, 1949
Missionary Narratives
Travel
Writing
Brown, George, George Brown, D.D., Pioneer-missionary and Explorer: An Autobiography.
A Narrative of Forty-eight Years’ Residence and Travel in Samoa,
New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands,
1908
Cook, Sir Albert R., Uganda Memories 1897[-]1940, with foreword
by Lord Lugard, 1945
Dawson, Christopher (editor), The Mongol Mission: Narratives and Letters
of the Franciscan Missionaries in Mongolia and China in the Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Centuries, translated by a nun of Stanbrook
Abbey, 1955
Ewing, Charles and Bessie Ewing, Death Throes of a Dynasty: Letters and Diaries
of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries to China, edited
by E.G. Ruoff, 1990
Fisher, Ruth B., On the Borders of Pigmy Land, 1905
Fisher, Ruth B., Twilight of the Black Baganda: The Traditional
History of Bunyoro-Kitara, a Former Uganda Kingdom, 1911
Gill, William Wyatt, Life in the Southern Isles; or, Scenes and
Incidents in the South Pacific and New Guinea, 1876
Harris, John H., Dawn in Darkest Africa, 1912
Horton, Robert Forman, Dr. Horton in India: An Account of a Visit
to India in 1912[-]13, 1913
Jackson, John, In Leper-Land: Being a Record of My Tour of 7,000 Miles among Indian Lepers,
Including some Notes on Missions and an Account of Eleven Days
with Miss Mary Reed and Her Lepers, 1901
Livingstone, David, The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central
Africa, from 1865 to his Death, 2 vols, 1874
Lloyd, A.B., In Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country, 1899
Mason, Ellen B., Civilizing Mountain Men; or, Sketches of Mission
Work among the Karens, 1862
Pyne, Alexander, Reminiscences of Colonial Life and Missionary
Adventures in Both Hemispheres, 1875
Young, Egerton Ryerson, By Canoe and Dog-Train among the Cree and Salteaux
Indians, 1890
Further Reading
Coats, Victoria T., David Charters: Engineer, Doctor and Missionary
1864[-]1894, London: Black, 1925
Stewart, Edith Anne, The Life of St. Francis Xavier: Evangelist,
Explorer, Mystic, London: Headley, 1917
Missionary Societies
Further
Reading
Alexander,
L., “The Acts of the Apostles as an Apologetic Text” in Apologetics in the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews and Christians, edited
by Mark Edwards, Martin Goodman and Simon Price, Oxford and New
York: Oxford University Press, 1999
Anderson,
Gerald H. (editor), Mission
Legacies: Biographical Studies of Leaders of the Modern Missionary
Movement, Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1994
Bede,
the Venerable, Bede’s Ecclesiastical
History of the English People, edited by Betram Colgrave and
R.A.B. Mynors, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969
Church Missionary Society Archive, Marlborough, Wiltshire: Adam Matthew,
1996[-] (microfilm edition)
Dharmaraj,
Jacob S., Colonialism and
Christian Mission: Postcolonial Reflections, Delhi: Indian
SPCK, 1993
Marshall,
P.J. and Glyndwr Williams, The
Great Map of Mankind: British Perceptions of the World in the
Age of Enlightenment, London: Dent, 1982; as The Great Map of Mankind: Perceptions of New
Worlds in the Age of Enlightenment, Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press, 1982
Moreau,
A. Scott et al.(editors),
Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker, 2000
Müller,
Karl et al. (editors),
Dictionary of Mission: Theology, History, Perspectives,
Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1997
Pius
XII, Pope, Fidei Donum,
Encyclical on the present condition of the Catholic missions,
especially in Africa (21 April 1957)
Porter,
A.N., “Religion and Empire: British Expansion in the Long Nineteenth
Century, 1780[-]1914”, Journal
of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 20 (1992): 370[-]90
Porter,
A.N., “Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm and Empire” in The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 3: The Nineteenth Century, edited by Porter
and Alaine Low, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999
Scherer,
James A., Gospel, Church
and Kingdom: Comparative Studies in World Mission Theology,
Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1987
Stanley,
Brian, The History of the
Baptist Missionary Society, 1792[-]1992, Edinburgh: Clark,
1992
Mississippi River
Travel Writing
Bossu, Jean-Bernard,
Travels in the Interior
of North America, 1751[-]1762, edited and translated by Seymour
Feiler, 1962
A French naval
officer’s account of his first two tours of duty in the French
colony of Louisiana.
Clayton,
Lawrence A., Vernon James Knight, Jr, and Edward C. Moore (editors),
The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando
de Soto to North America in 1539[-]1543, 2 vols, 1993
English
translations of the basic documents relating to the expedition
of Hernando de Soto to the present-day United States.
Davis, Norah
Deakin and Joseph Holmes (photographer), The
Father of Waters: A Mississippi River Chronicle, 1982
The author joined
a college class of 15 people who canoed from Itasca to Hannibal
in 67 days, then proceeded to New Orleans, first with an outboard
and then by barge and freighter. The text has very little to say
about this adventure, however; the Haygood and Grossfeld book
is infinitely better.
Glazier, Willard,
Down the Great River: Embracing
an Account of the Discovery of the True Source of the Mississippi,
1887
Haygood, Wil
and Stan Grossfeld (photographer), Two
on the River, 1986
Perhaps the best
of the writer/photographer teams to tempt fate on the river. In
six weeks they travelled by car through Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Kentucky, then drifted on a raft constructed by a professional
carpenter for 300 miles south from Hannibal with judicious applications
of their emergency engine. They continued their journey through
the deep south on a steamboat.
Hesse-Wartegg,
Ernst von, Travels on the
Lower Mississippi, 1879[-]1880, edited and translated by Frederic
Trautmann, 1990
Lewis, Henry,
The Valley of the Mississippi Illustrated,
translated by A. Hermina Poatgieter, edited by Bertha L. Heilbron,
1967
Lewis, Meriwether et al.,
Original Journals
of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804[-]1806, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, 8 vols, 1904[-]05; reprinted,
1959
Malcolm, Andrew
H. Mississippi Currents:
Journeys through Time and a Valley, with photographs by and
Roger Straus III,1996
McDermott, John
Francis (editor), Before
Mark Twain: A Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi,
1968
A collection
of impressions by riverboat travellers.
McWilliams, Richebourg
Gaillard (editor and translator), Iberville’s Gulf Journals, 1981
Milanich,
Jerald T. (editor), The
Hernando de Soto Expedition, 1991
English
translations of several contemporary narratives.
Paul Wilhelm,
Duke of Württemberg, Travels
in North America, 1822[-]1824, translated by W. Robert Nitske,
edited by Savoie Lottinville, 1973
Peyser, Joseph
L. (translator and editor), Letters
from New France: The Upper Country, 1686[-]1783, 1992
Pike, Z.M., An Account of Expeditions
to the Sources of the Mississippi, and through the Western Parts
of Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte,
and Pierre Jaun Rivers: Performed by Order of the Government of
the United States during the Years 1805, 1806, and 1807, 1810;
as Exploratory Travels through
the Western Territories of North America, 1811
Raban, Jonathan,
Old Glory: An American Voyage,
1981
Raven-Hart, Rowland,
Canoe Errant on the Mississippi,
1938
Schoolcraft,
Henry R., Narrative of an
Expedition through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual
Source of this River, 1834; as Schoolcraft’s
Expedition to Lake Itasca: The Discovery of the Source of the
Mississippi, edited by Philip P. Mason, 1958
Shea, John Gilmary,
Discovery and Exploration
of the Mississippi Valley, 1852
Includng translations
of the narratives of Marquette and four other French explorers
in America.
Speakman, Harold,
Mostly Mississippi,
1927
A charming account
of the author’s trip down the river, first by canoe and then by
houseboat.
Twain, Mark,
Life on the Mississippi, 1883
Weddle, Robert
S. (editor), La Salle, the
Mississippi, and the Gulf, 1987
Translations
of three primary documents dealing with La Salle’s exploration
of the Mississippi and the Spanish reaction to his intrusions
into their territory.
Winship,
George Parker (translator and editor), The
Journey of Coronado, 1540[-]1542: From the City of Mexico to the
Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas,
and Nebraska, as Told by Himself and his Followers, 1904
Consists
chiefly of the narrative by Pedro de Castañeda.
Further Reading
Bancroft, George,
History of the United States,
vol. 1, Boston: Little Brown, 1834; revised edition, 1876
Caruso, John
Anthony, The Mississippi
Valley Frontier: The Age of French Exploration and Settlement,
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966
An appreciation
of the diverse cultures found among the various Indian tribes
along the Mississippi River.
Chambers, Henry
E., Mississippi Valley Beginnings,
New York and London: Putnam, 1922
Larson, Ron,
Upper Mississippi River History: Fact, Fiction,
Legend, Winona, Minnesota: Steamboat Press, 1995; 2nd edition,
1998
McDermott, John
Francis (editor), The Spanish
in the Mississippi Valley, 1762[-]1804, Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1974
Papers from a
conference held at Southern Illinois University in April 1970.
Middleton, Pat,
Discover! America’s Great
River Road, 3 vols, Stoddard, Wisconsin: Heritage Press, 1996[-]98
A guidebook for
sites on the Great River Road, a designation given to a progression
of paved highways that frequently run parallel to the main course
of the river.
Ogg, Frederic
Austin, The Opening of the
Mississippi, New York: Macmillan, 1904; reprinted, New York:
Cooper Square, 1968
Russell, Richard
Joel, The Mississippi River,
Baton Rouge: Educational Materials Bureau, Louisiana State University,
1944
Samuel, Ray,
Leonard V. Huber and Warren C. Ogden, Tales
of the Mississippi, New York: Hastings House, 1955
Saxon, Lyle,
Father Mississippi, New York and London:
Century, 1927
Severin, Timothy,
Explorers of the Mississippi,
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967; New York: Knopf, 1968
Steck, Francis
Borgia, The Jolliet[-]Marquette
Expedition, 1673, Glendale, California: Clark, 1928; reprinted,
New York: AMS Press, 1974
Mongolia
Travel Writing
Alioshin, Dmitri, Asian Odyssey, 1940
The one-sided but undeniably entertaining
memoirs of a White Russian who got caught up in the chaos that
followed the Mongolian revolution of 1911.
Andrews, Roy Chapman, The New Conquest of Central Asia: A Narrative
of the Explorations of the Central Asiatic Expeditions in Mongolia
and China, 1921[-]30,
1932
A superb evocation of the experiences
and achievements of this outstanding explorer, complete with excellent
fold-out maps.
Andrews, Roy Chapman, “Explorations
in the Gobi Desert”, National
Geographic, 63/6 (June 1933): 653[-]716
A beautifully illustrated “popular”
account of Andrews’s discoveries.
Becker,
Jasper, The Lost Country:
Mongolia Revealed, 1992
This
outstanding journalistic study of Mongolia just after the fall
of Communism includes sensitive and often entertaining accounts
of the experiences of earlier travellers. It also has an enlightening
section on Inner Mongolia, still suffering under the Stalinism
that Mongolia itself has shaken off.
Bisch,
Jorgen, Mongolia: Unknown
Land, translated from the Danish by Reginald Spink, 1963
Readers
may feel that Mongolia remains almost as unknown to them once
they have finished the book as it was before they started, since
Bisch is an impressionistic writer rather than a reporter capable
of providing hard facts or deep insights.
Bulstrode,
Beatrix, A Tour in Mongolia,
1920
Valuable
for its eyewitness reports on the upheaval that followed the revolution
of 1911, but very much a period piece.
Cable,
Mildred and Francesca French, The
Gobi Desert, 1943
An
interesting example of the subgenre of travel writing by Christian
missionaries, effective in its evocation of natural wonders, but
much less convincing when human beings hove into view.
Dawson,
Christopher (editor), The
Mongol Mission: Narratives and Letters of the Franciscan Missionaries
in Mongolia and China in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries,
translated by a Nun of Stanbrook Abbey, 1955; reprinted, 1980
A useful scholarly study and anthology
that sets the work of William of Rubruck in a broader context.
Gilmour,
James, Among the Mongols,
1885; reprinted, 1970
Gilmour,
James, James Gilmour of
Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports, edited by Richard
Lovett, 1892
Gilmour’s
principal publications on Mongolia, the first published in his
lifetime and the second after his death, were both written, or
edited, to give as good an impression as possible of his mission,
and should therefore be treated with caution.
Haslund, Henning, Tents in Mongolia: Adventures and Experiences
among the Nomads of Central Asia, translated from the Swedish
by Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier, 1934
Haslund, Henning, Men and Gods in Mongolia, translated from
the Swedish by Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier, 1935; reprinted,
1992
Haslund,
Henning, Mongolian Journey,
translated from the Danish by F.H.
Lyon, 1949
Haslund’s ability to generate three
books from his expedition, undertaken
with other Danes in the early 1920s, has to be admired, and he
was undoubtedly important as one of the most influential Western
writers on Mongolia, yet all three are less exciting, and less
enlightening, than their titles, and their erstwhile popularity,
might suggest.
Huc, Evariste-Regis, Souvenirs d’un voyage dans la Tarterie, le
Thibet, et la Chine pendant les années 1844[-]46, 3 vols,
1850[-]54; as Recollections of a Journey through Tartary,
Thibet, and China during the Years 1844, 1845, and 1846, translated
by Mrs Percy Sinnett, 2 vols, 1852; as Travels
in Tartary, translated by W. Hazlitt,
1927; abridged edition as High
Road in Tartary, 1948
The unintentionally amusing memoirs
of a Catholic missionary whose prejudices distort his vision of
all the countries he describes.
Lattimore, Owen, Nomads and Commissars: Mongolia Revisited,
1962
Lattimore, Owen, Mongol Journeys, 1941; reprinted, 1975
Two
examples of how a highly intelligent scholar can be deceived by
ideology -- in Lattimore’s case, a muddleheaded sympathy for Stalinism
-- into writing books that are now of interest more for their
sheer oddity than for any worthwhile insights into the real Mongolia.
Ma
Ho-t’ien, Chinese Agent
in Mongolia, translated by John De Francis, 1949
It
is difficult to be sure how much this tale of espionage, escapes,
terror, and upheaval can be relied upon, but it undoubtedly makes
for a refreshing alternative both to the distortions of Stalinists
and their sympathizers, and to the equally frustrating travelogues
of those who affected to be uninterested in mere politics.
MacColl,
Rene, The Land of Genghis
Khan: A Journey in Outer Mongolia, 1963
While
Lattimore went to Mongolia fully expecting to find a Stalinist
paradise, MacColl, a journalist on the British Conservative paper
the Daily Express, went in search of a Stalinist
hell. It is not easy to decide which of them was the more prejudiced
and the more misled.
Man, John, Gobi: Tracking the Desert,
1997
A
delightful book in which Man achieves the all too rare feat of
combining a fascinating personal memoir with celebration of the
achievements of earlier travellers and humane reflection on the
issues involved in preserving the unique ecology of the Gobi.
Montagu,
Ivor, Land of Blue Sky:
A Portrait of Modern Mongolia, 1956
Another exercise in Stalinist propaganda efforts.
Ossendowski,
Ferdinand, Beasts, Men and
Gods, 1922
Ossendowski was a Polish physician
and officer in the White Russian army who escaped from Russia’s
post-revolutionary civil war only to get caught up in Mongolia’s.
His book is a uniquely bizarre compendium of political reportage,
mystical speculation, rhapsodizing over landscapes and lamas,
and credulous records of prophecies and legends.
Polo, Marco, The Travels, translated and with an introduction by Ronald Latham,
1958
Polo’s highly coloured and questionable
book about his adventures in Asia in the years 1275[-]92 contains
only scattered and confused references to the native land of the
Mongol rulers of China, and it is unlikely that he ever visited
it. Nevertheless, it is of some interest, if only for its historical
role as the source for almost all that Europeans knew about Mongols
and Mongolia -- or thought they knew -- for more than 600 years.
Przheval'skii, Nikolai, Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitude of Northern Tibet,
translated by E. Delmar Morgan, 1876; reprinted, 1968
The entertaining memoirs of Przheval'skii, naturalist, militarist, chauvinist,
and his own greatest admirer.
Rubruck, William of, The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern
Parts of the World, 1253[-]55, translated and edited by William
Woodville Rockhill, 1900
The Franciscan envoy’s letter to King
Louis IX vividly evokes a European view of the incomprehensible
tolerance and sheer strangeness of the Mongol empire at its height.
Sadly, this eye-witness account was long neglected in favour of
Marco Polo’s largely unreliable work.
Further Reading
Bawden, Charles R., The Modern History of Mongolia, London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, and New York: Praeger, 1968; 2nd edition,
London and New York: Kegan Paul, 1989
Perhaps the best single-volume narrative
of the country’s development since it became a distinct entity
in the 17th century.
Heissig, Walther, A Lost Civilization: The Mongols Rediscovered,
translated from the German by D.J.S. Thomson, London: Thames and
Hudson, and New York: Basic Books, 1966
An impressive account, based largely
on Mongolian materials preserved in western insitutions, by a
German scholar who was for many years the doyen of Mongolian studies
in Europe.
Rayfield,
Donald, The Dream of Lhasa:
The Life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839[-]88), Explorer of Central
Asia, London: Elek, and Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press,
1976
A competent biography of the explorer, putting his discovery of the horse
that bears his name, and his whole journey to Mongolia, in the
larger context of his involvement in the “Great Game” of imperial
rivalry in Asia.
Spuler, Bertold, History of the
Mongols: Based on Eastern and Western Accounts of the Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Centuries, translated from the German by Helga
and Stuart Drummond, Berkeley: University of California
Press, and London: Routledge, 1972; reprinted, New York: Dorset Press, 1988
A
very interesting collection of documents on the extraordinary
rise and decline of the Mongol empire, taken from an unusually
wide variety of sources.
Mary Wortley Montagu 1689[-]1762
Travel
Writing
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
The
Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, edited by Robert
Halsband, 3 vols, 1965[-]67
Further
Reading
Bohls,
Elizabeth A., “Aesthetics and Orientalism in Mary Wortley Montagu’s
Letters” in her Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics,
1716[-]1818, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1995
Argues
that Montagu’s depictions of Turkish women reconfigure traditional,
received notions of the erotic/exotic Orient.
Grundy,
Isobel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Oxford and New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999
The
definitive modern biography. Includes comprehensive bibliography
of recent Montagu scholarship.
Halsband,
Robert, The Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1956; New York: Oxford University Press, 1960
Somewhat
older biography by the modern editor of Montagu’s collected letters.
Montagu,
Mary Wortley, Essays and Poems, and Simplicity: A Comedy,
edited by Robert Halsband and Isobel Grundy, Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1977; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
The
rich corpus of Lady Mary’s literary work, spanning much of her
life and many genres, provides essential intellectual and psychological
contexts for her travel writings.
Spence,
Joseph, Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and
Men, Collected from Conversation, London: John Murray, 1820;
edited by James M. Osborn, 2 vols, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966
Includes
selected anecdotes about Lady Mary by contemporary scholar and
writer Joseph Spence, a great admirer of her work who collected
her sayings and edited her poetry.
Spence,
Joseph, Letters from the Grand Tour, edited by Slava Klima,
Montreal: McGill[-]Queen’s University Press, 1975
Records
conversations with Lady Mary during meetings in Italy as well
as the many colorful rumors circulating about her at the time.
Michel de Montaigne 1533[-]1592
Travel
Writing
Journal de Voyage de Michel de Montaigne en Italie,
par la Suisse et l’Allemagne en 1580 et 1581, 2 vols, 1774; as The Journal of Montaigne’s Travels, translated
and edited with an introduction and notes by W.G. Waters, 3 vols,
1903
Montaigne’s
travel journal was customarily published with the Essais.
Journal de voyage, edited by Fausta Garavini, 1983
Montaigne’s Travel Journal, translated by Donald Frame, 1983
Further Reading
Balmas, Enea Henri, Montaigne a Padova: e altri studi sulla letteratura
francese del Cinquecento, Padova: Liviana, 1962
Bideaux, Michel, “La Description dans
le Journal de Voyage
de Montaigne”, Travaux d’Humanisme
et Renaissance, 177 (1980): 405[-]22
Bockelkamp, Marianne, “Montaigne et
Goethe en Italie”, Bulletin
de la Société des Amis de Montaigne, 4/12 (1967): 25[-]36
Buffum, Imbrie, L’Influence du Voyage de Montaigne sur les Essais, Princeton, New
Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1946
Dédéyan, Charles, Essai sur le Journal de Voyage de Montaigne,
Paris: Boivin, 1946
Frame, Donald M., “Travel in Italy,
1580[-]1581” in his Montaigne:
A Biography, New York: Harcourt Brace, and London: Hamish
Hamilton, 1965
Hoffmann, George, Montaigne’s Career, Oxford and New York:
Clarendon Press, 1998
Kohn, Ingeborg, “Le grand voyage de
Montaigne (juin 1580[-]novembre 1581)”, Bulletin
de la Société des Amis de Montaigne, 5/9 (1974): 67[-]80
Lacouture, Jean, “Le cul sur la selle à travers l’Europe” in his Montaigne à cheval, Paris: Seuil, 1996
Majer, Irma Staza, The Notion of Singularity: The Travel Journals
of Michel de Montaigne and Jean de Léry, Ann Arbor, Michigan:
University Microfilms International, 1982
Montaigne e l’Italia: atti del congresso internazionale di studi di Milano-Lecco,
26[-]30 ottobre 1988, Geneva: Slatkine, and Torino: Centro interuniversitario di ricerche sul
“Viaggio in Italia”, 1991
Moureau, François, “Le manuscrit du
Journal de Voyage: Découverte, éditions et copies” in Montaigne et les Essais, 1580[-]1980: Actes du Congrès de Bordeaux, juin 1980, Paris: Champion, and Geneva:
Slatkine, 1983
Sayce, Richard, “The Visual Arts in
Montaigne’s Journal de voyage”
in O un amy!: Essays on Montaigne in Honor of
Donald M. Frame, edited by Raymond C. La Charite, Lexington,
Kentucky: French Forum, 1977
Smith, Malcolm, Citizen of the World: Montaigne’s Travels (lecture), Egham: Runnymede,
1989
Starobinski, Jean, Montaigne en mouvement, Paris: Gallimard,
1982; as Montaigne in Motion,
translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1985
Wiedemann, Hermann, Montaigne und andere Reisende der Renaissance,
Trier: Wissenschaftlicher, 1999
Moses Montefiore 1784[-]1885 and Judith Montefiore
1784[-]1862
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