Note: List of entries is preliminary and may change prior to publication.
P
Fernão Mendes Pinto c.1510[-]1583
Travel Writing
Peregrinação, 1614; as Peregrinaçam, Seguida das Suas Cartas,
edited by Adolfo Casais Monteiro, 2 vols, 1952[-]53; as Peregrinação e Outras Obras, edited by António José Saraiva, 3 vols,
1961[-]74; as The Voyages
and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto ... during his Travels
for the Space of One and Twenty Years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia,
China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan,
and a Great Part of the East Indies ..., translated by H.C.,
1653; as The Travels of
Mendes Pinto, edited and translated by Rebecca D. Catz, 1989
Further Reading
Boxer,
C.R., The Christian Century
in Japan, 1549[-]1650, Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1951
Boxer,
C.R., The Church Militant
and the Iberian Expansion, 1440[-]1770, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1978
Boxer,
C.R., From Lisbon to Goa,
1500[-]1750: Studies in Portuguese Maritime Enterprise, London:
Variorum, 1984
Brodrick,
James, Saint Francis Xavier,
(1506[-]1552), London: Burns Oates, and New York: Wicklow
Press, 1952
Catz,
Rebecca, A Sátira Social
de Fernão Mendes Pinto, Lisbon: Prelo, 1978
Collis,
Maurice, The Grand Peregrination:
Being the Life and Adventures of Fernão Mendes Pinto, London:
Faber, 1949; new edition, Manchester: Carcanet, 1990
Danvers,
Frederick Charles, The Portuguese
in India, 2nd edition, 2 vols, London: Cass, 1966
Lach,
Donald F., Southeast Asia
in the Eyes of Europe: The Sixteenth Century, Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1968
Lima,
Francisco Ferreira de, O
Outro Livro das Maravilhas: A Peregrinação de Fernão Mendes Pinto,
Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumara, 1998
Margarido,
Alfredo, “Fernão Mendes Pinto, Um Herói do Quotidiano”, Colóquio/Letras, 74 (1983): 23[-]28
Margarido,
Alfredo, “La Multiplicité des sens dans l’écriture de Fernão Mendes
Pinto et quelques problemes de la littérature de voyages au XVIe
siècle”, Arquivos do Centro Cultural Português,
11 (1977): 59[-]197
Saraiva,
António José, “Fernão Mendes Pinto ou a Sátira Picaresca da Ideologia
Senhorial”, História da
Cultura em Portugal, 3 (1962): 343[-]496
Schurhammer,
Georg, Francis Xavier: His
Life, His Times, translated (from German) by M. Joseph Costelloe,
4 vols, Rome: Jesuit Historical Institute, 1973[-]82
Simões,
Manuel, “A Construção da Sátira na Peregrinação:
O ‘Outro’ Como Máscara de Fernão Mendes Pinto”, Peregrinação: Artes e Letras da Diáspora Portuguesa, 10 (1985): 6[-]7
Sousa,
Ronald W., “Cannibal, Cartographer, Soldier, Spy: The Peirai of Mendes Pinto’s Peregrinação”
in The Project of Prose
in Early Modern Europe and the New World, edited by Elizabeth
Fowler and Roland Greene, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1997
Pirates / Bandits
Travel Writing
Baepler, Paul (editor), White Slaves, African Masters, 1999
Baker, Thomas, Piracy and Diplomacy in Seventeenth-Century North Africa: The Journal
of Thomas Baker, English Consul in Tripoli, 1677[-]1685, edited
by C.R. Pennell, 1989
Bella Starr, the Bandit Queen, or, The Female Jesse
James: A Full and Authentic History of the Dashing Female Highwayman:
With Copious Extracts from her Journal, 1889
Buitrago Salazar, Evelio, “Zarpazo”;
otra cara de la violencia. Memorias de un suboficial del ejército
de Colombia, 1967; as Zarpazo the Bandit: Memoirs of an Undercover Agent of the Columbian Army,
translated by M. Murray Lasley, 1977
Comelin, François, Philemon de la Motte
and Joseph Bernard, Voyage
pour la redemption des captifs, aux royaumes d’Alger et de Tunis,
fait en 1720, 1721; as A
Voyage to Barbary, for the Redemption of Captives, Performed in
1720, translated by Joseph Morgan, 1735
Cosgrave, J., A Genuine History of the Lives and Actions of the Most Notorious Irish
Highwaymen, Tories and Rapparees, 1747
Cresswell, Samuel Gurney, War, Ice & Piracy: The Remarkable Career
of a Victorian Sailor: The Journals and Letters of Samuel Gurney
Cresswell, edited by Dominick Harrod, 2000
Ellms, Charles, The Pirates Own Book, or Authentic Narratives of the Lives, Exploits,
and Executions of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers, 1837
Exquemelin, A.O., De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, 4 vols, 1678;
as The Buccaneers of America,
translated by Alexis Brown, 1969
Gennadios, Joannes, Notes on the Recent Murders by Brigands in
Greece, 1870
Guzmán, Martín Luis, Memorias de Pancho Villa, 4 vols, 1938[-]40;
as Memoirs of Pancho Villa,
translated by Virginia H. Taylor, 1965
Guzmán, Martín Luis, El Áquila y la serpiente, 1928; as The Eagle and the Serpent, translated by
Harriet de Onis, 1930 [on the Mexican Revolution and Pancho Villa]
Hakluyt, Richard, “266 Christians Delivered
out of Turkish Captivity” in his The
Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of
the English Nation, 2nd edition, 2 vols, 1598[-]1600; reprinted
in 12 vols, 1903[-]05 and 1969; also in Voyages
and Discoveries, edited and abridged by Jack Beeching, 1972
Hampden, John (editor), Francis Drake, Privateer: Contemporary Narratives
and Documents, 1972
Howard, Harvey J., Ten Weeks with Chinese Bandits, 1926; reprinted,
1974
Jameson, John Franklin (editor), Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period:
Illustrative Documents, 1923; reprinted, 1970
Kolokotronis, Theodoros, Memoirs from the Greek War of Independence,
1821[-]1833, translated and edited by E.M. Edmonds, 1969
Labat, Jean-Baptiste, Nouveau Voyage aux isles de l’Amerique,
6 vols, 1722; as The Memoirs
of Père Labat, 1693[-]1705, translated and abridged by John
Eaden, 1931; reprinted, 1970
Lilius, Aleko E., I Sailed With Chinese Pirates, 1930
Lucan, Pharsalia, translated by Jane Wilson Joyce, 1993 (Books II, III, VI,
IX)
Macleay, Kenneth, Historical Memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan
Macgregor, 1818
Memoir Relating to the Highlands: With Anecdotes of Rob Roy and his Family,
1818
Moens, W.J.C., English Travellers and Italian Brigands: A Narrative of Capture and Captivity,
1866
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, Letter
to Alexander Pope, 16 January 1717 (O.S.), in her Selected Letters, edited by Isobel Grundy, 1997
Queiroz, Maria Isaura Pereira de (editor),
Os Cangaceiros, les bandits
d’honneur brésiliens , 1968 [on Lampião (1900[-]38)]
Reglá, Joan and Joan Fuster, El bandolerisme català, 2 vols, 1962[-]63
Smith, John, The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, 1580[-]1631, edited by Philip
Barbour, 3 vols, 1986
Soteropoulos, S., The Brigands of the Morea: A Narrative of the
Captivity of Mr. S. Soteropoulos, translated by J.O. Bagdon,
1868
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars, translated by Benjamin Jowett, revised by
P.A. Brunt, 1963 (Book I)
The following fictional accounts are
widely considered to be important resources for gaining an understanding
of banditry in Turkey, Scotland, and China respectively:
Kemal, Yaşar, İnce Memed, 1955; as Memed, my Hawk, translated by Edouard
Roditi, 1961; reprinted, 1982
Scott, Sir Walter, Rob Roy, 3 vols, 1818; edited by Ian Duncan,
1998
Shi Nai’an and Lo Kuan-chung, Shui hu chuan, written 14th century; as
All Men are Brothers, translated by Pearl
S. Buck, 2 vols, 1933; also as Water
Margin, translated by J.H. Jackson, 2 vols, 1937; reprinted,
1968; also as Outlaws of the Marsh, translated by Sidney
Shapiro, 3 vols, 1980
Further Reading
Andrews, Kenneth R., The Spanish Caribbean: Trade and Plunder 1530[-]1630,
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1978
Andrews, Kenneth R., Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise
and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480[-]1630, Cambridge
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984
Angiolillo, Paul F., A Criminal as Hero: Angelo Duca, Lawrence:
Regents Press of Kansas, 1979
Barkey, Karen, Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization,
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1994
Billingsley, Phil, Bandits in Republican China, Stanford,
California: Stanford University Press, 1988
Black, Clinton V., Pirates of the West Indies, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1989
Blok, Anton, Honour and Violence, Cambridge: Polity Press, and Malden, Massachusetts:
Blackwell, 2001
Bradley, Peter T., The Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the
South Sea, 1598[-]1701, London: Macmillan, and New York: St
Martin’s Press, 1989
Chandler, Billy Jaynes, The Bandit King: Lampião of Brazil, College
Station: Texas A and M University Press, 1978
Chandler, Billy Jaynes, King of the Mountain: The Life and Death of
Giuliano the Bandit, DeKalb: Northern Illinois University
Press, 1988
Cordingly, David, Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality
of Life among the Pirates,
London: Little Brown, 1995; New York: Random House, 1996
Creighton, Margaret S. and Lisa Norling
(editors), Iron Men, Wooden
Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700[-]1920,
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
Crummey, Donald (editor), Banditry, Rebellion, and Social Protest in
Africa, London: Currey, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann,
1986
Davies, Charles E., The Blood-Red Arab Flag: An Investigation into
Qasimi Piracy, 1797[-]1820, Exeter: University of Exeter Press,
1997
De Souza, Philip, Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World, Cambridge
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999
Earle, Peter, The Sack of Panamá, London: Norman and Hobhouse, 1981; as The Sack of Panamá: Sir Henry Morgan’s Adventures
on the Spanish Main, New York: Viking Press, 1982
Fisher, Godfrey, Barbary Legend: War, Trade, and Piracy in North
Africa, 1415[-]1830, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957
Friedman, Ellen G., Spanish Captives in North Africa in the Early
Modern Age, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983
Galvin, Peter R., Patterns of Pillage: A Geography of Caribbean-based
Piracy in Spanish America, 1536[-]1718, New York: Peter Lang,
1999
Gard, Wayne, Sam Bass, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1936; reprinted,
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1969
Gerhard, Peter, Pirates on the West Coast of New Spain, 1575[-]1742, Glendale, California:
Clark, 1960; as Pirates
of the Pacific, 1575[-]1742, Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 1990
Gibson, Helen, “A Plague of Pirates”,
Time Magazine, 150/7
(18 August 1997): 44[-]46
Gill, Anton, The Devil’s Mariner: A Life of William Dampier, Pirate and Explorer, 1651[-]1715,
London: Michael Joseph, 1997
Haywood, John, Dark Age Naval Power: A Reassessment of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Seafaring
Activity, London and
New York: Routledge, 1991
Hill, Christopher, Liberty against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century
Controversies, London: Allen Lane, and New York: Penguin,
1996
Hobsbawm, Eric, Bandits, new edition, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, and New York:
New Press, 2000 (first edition, 1969)
Horwood, Harold and Edward Butts, Pirates and Outlaws of Early Canada, 1610[-]1932,
Toronto, New York: Doubleday, 1984
Jennings, Ronald C., Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and
the Mediterranean World, 1571[-]1640, New York: New York University
Press, 1993
Katz, Friedrich, The Life and Times of Pancho Villa, Stanford,
California: Stanford University Press, 1998
Kelsey,
Harry, Sir Francis Drake:
The Queen’s Pirate, New Haven, Connecticut and London: Yale
University Press, 1998
Kemp, P.K. and Christopher Lloyd, The Brethren of the Coast: The British and
French Buccaneers in the South Seas, London: Heinemann, 1960;
as Brethren of the Coast: Buccaneers of the South
Seas, New York: St Martin’s Press, 1961
Koliopoulos, John S., Brigands with a Cause: Brigandage and Irredentism
in Modern Greece, 1821[-]1912, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987
Kooistra, Paul, Criminals as Heroes: Structure, Power, and Identity, Bowling Green,
Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1989
Lane, Kris E., Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500[-]1750, Armonk,
New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998
Lee, Robert E., Blackbeard the Pirate: A Reappraisal of His Life and Times, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina: Blair, 1974
Love, Robertus, The Rise and Fall of Jesse James, New York and London: Putnam, 1926;
reprinted, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990
Marley, David F., Pirates and Privateers of the Americas,
Santa Barbara, California and Oxford: ABC-Clio, 1994
Murray, Dian H., Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790[-]1810,
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1987
Ormerod, Henry A., Piracy in the Ancient World: An Essay in Mediterranean
History, Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool, and London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1924; reprinted, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1997
Penick, James Lal, The Great Western Land Pirate: John A. Murrell
in Legend and History, Columbia: University of Missouri Press,
1981
Petrie, Donald A., The Prize Game: Lawful Looting on the High
Seas in the Days of Fighting Sail,
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1999
Prassel, Frank Richard, The Great American Outlaw: A Legacy of Fact and Fiction, Norman, Oklahoma:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993
Rediker, Marcus, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant
Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700[-]1750,
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987
Ritchie, Robert C., Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press, 1986
Rothert, Otto A., The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock: Historical Accounts
of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer
Days upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and over the Old Natchez
Trace, Cleveland: Clark, 1924
Rutter, Owen, The Pirate Wind: Tales of the Sea-Robbers of Malaya, London: Hutchinson,
1930; reprinted, Singapore and New York: Oxford University Press,
1986
Sánchez G., Gonzalo and Donny Meertens,
Bandoleros, gamonales y
campesinos: El caso de la violencia en Colombia, Bogotá: El
Ancora, 1983; as Bandits,
Peasants, and Politics: The Case of “La Violencia” in Colombia,
translated by Alan Hynds, Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press,
2001
Schwartz, Rosalie, Lawless Liberators: Political Banditry and
Cuban Independence, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University
Press, 1989
Seal, Graham, The Outlaw Legend: A Cultural Tradition in Britain, America, and Australia,
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996
So, Kwan-wai, Japanese Piracy in Ming China During the 16th Century, East Lansing:
Michigan State University Press, 1975
Stanley, Jo (editor), Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates across
the Ages, London and San Francisco: Pandora, 1995
Starkey, David J., E.S. Van Eyck Van
Heslinga and J.A. de Moor (editors), Pirates
and Privateers: New Perspectives on the War on Trade in the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Centuries, Exeter: University of Exeter Press,
1997
Thomson, Janice E., Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns: State-Building
and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe, Princeton,
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994
Vanderwood, Paul J., Disorder and Progress: Bandits, Police, and
Mexican Development, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1981; revised and enlarged edition, Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books,
1992
Wolf, John B., The Barbary Coast: Algiers under the Turks, 1500 to 1830, New York
and London: Norton, 1979
Pius II 1405[-]1464
Travel Writing
For the Latin text of De Asia and De Europa, see Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Opera quae extant omnia, 2nd edition, 1571; reprint, 1967
The first modern edition of De Europa, edited by Adriaan van Heck,
is forthcoming.
Further Reading
Berg, Alfred, Enea Silvio de’ Piccolomini (Papst Pius II.) in seiner Bedeutung als Geograph:
ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Erdkunde im Quattrocento, Halle:
Buchdruckerei des Waisenhauses, 1901
Casella, Nicola, “Pio II tra geografia
e storia: la Cosmographia”,
Archivio della Società romana
di storia patria, 95 (1972): 35[-]112
Martels, Zweder von, “Between Orosius
and Ubbo Emmius: On the Tradition of Geographical Descriptions
in Historical Writings” in Northern
Humanism in European Context, 1469[-]1625: From the ‘Adwert Academy’
to Ubbo Emmius, edited by F. Akkerman, A.J. Vanderjagt and
A.H. van der Laan, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1999
Müller, Hermann, Enea Silvio de’ Piccolomini’s literarische
Tätigkeit auf dem Gebiete der Erdkunde und dessen Einfluss auf
die Geographen der Folgezeit, Fürth: Schröder, 1903
Schoeck, R.J., “The Geography of Erasmus”
in Northern Humanism in
European Context, 1469[-]1625: From the ‘Adwert Academy’ to Ubbo
Emmius, edited by F. Akkerman, A.J. Vanderjagt and A.H. van
der Laan, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1999
Vollmann, Benedikt Konrad, “Enea Silvio
als Geschichtsschreiber: Die Asia”
in Heilsgeschichte oder
Geschichte des Menschen? edited by Harald Dickerhof [forthcoming]
Witt, Ronald G., In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins
of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni,
Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2000
Francisco Pizarro c.1475[-]1541
Travel
Writing
Narrative of the Conquest of Peru, Xeres,
Francisco de (Pizarro’s secretary), 1530[-]34
El
testamento de Pizarro, edited with notes by Paul Porras Barrenechea,
1936
Testimonio:
documentos oficiales, cartas y escritas varios, edited by
Guillermo Lohmann Villena, 1986
Further
Reading
Garst,
Shannon, Three Conquistadors:
Cortes, Coronado, Pizarro, New York: Messner, 1947
Howard,
Cecil, Pizarro and the Conquest
of Peru, New York: American Heritage, 1968; London: Cassell,
1970
Innes,
Hammond, The Conquistadors,
London: Collins, and New York: Knopf, 1969
Jacobs,
William Jay, Pizarro, Conqueror
of Peru, New York: Watts, and New York: Knopf, 1994
Ober,
Frederick A., Pizarro and
the Conquest of Peru, London and New York: Harper, 1906
Prescott,
W.H., History of the Conquest
of Peru, New York: Harper, 1847
Pizarro,
Pedro, Relation of the Discovery
and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru, New York: Cortés Society,
1921
Syme,
Ronald, Francisco Pizarro,
Finder of Peru, New York: Morrow, 1963
Plant hunting: Africa
Adanson, Michel, A Voyage to Senegal, the Isle of Goree, and the River Gambia, translated from the French, 1759
Afzelius, Adam, Sierra Leone Journal 1795[-]1796, edited by Alexander Peter Kup, 1967
Allen, William and T.R.H. Thomson, A Narrative of the Expedition sent by Her Majesty’s Government to the River Niger in 1841, 2 vols, 1848,
Baikie, William Balfour, Narrative of the Exploring Voyage up the Rivers Kwóra and Bínue (commonly known as the Niger and Tsádda) in 1854, 1856
Balfour, Isaac B., “On the Island of Sokotra”, 51st Report
of the British Association, vol? (1881): pages?
Balfour, Isaac B., “The Botany of Sokotra” in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
31 (1888): pages?
Barth, Heinrich, Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa, 1849[-]55, 5 vols, translated from the German, 1857[-]58
Beauvois, Palisot de, Flore d’Oware et de Benin en Afrique, 1804[-]07
Bent, James T., “The Island of Socotra”, in The Nineteenth Century, 41 (1897): Pages?
Bruce, James,
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768,
1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773, 5 vols, 1790
Burchell, William J., Travels in the Interior of Southern
Africa, 2 vols, 1822[-]24; reprinted, 1953
Burton, Richard F., Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains:
An Exploration, 2 vols, 1863 [plants listed by G. Mann, Appendix III pp. 270[-]277]
Caillé, René,
Travels to Timbuctou, translated by..., 2 vols, 1830 [ T.
Monod in Bull. IFAN ser.A,22: 343-350 (1960) cataglogued
all the plants mentioned in his Journal]
Clapperton, Hugh, Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo, 1829; reprinted,
1966
Collins, W.B.,
The Perpetual Forest, 1958
Delile, A.R., Description
de l’Égypt, 1813[-]29; reprinted, 1988
Denham, Dixon and Hugh Clapperton, Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa
in the Years 1822, 1823
and 1824, 1826
Doe, Brian, Socotra:
Island of Tranquillity,
with contributions by R.B. Serjeant, A. Radcliffe-Smith and
K.M. Guichard, 1992 [plants by A. Radcliffe-Smith pp. 189[-]204]
Elliot, G.F. Scott, A Naturalist in Mid-Africa: Being an Account of a Journey to the Mountains
of the Moon and Tanganyika,
1896
Fairchild, David, Exploring for Plants, 1941
[West Africa pp. 457[-]561]
Foureau, F.,
Documents Scientifiques de la Mission Saharienne
(Mission Foureau-Lamy 1898[-]1900 d’Alger au Congo par le
Tchad), 3 vols, 1903
Hedberg, Olov, “Vegetation Belts of the East African
Mts.”, Svensk Tidskriff,
45 (1951): 140[-]202
Hedberg, Olov, Afroalpine Vascular Plants: A Taxonomic Revision, 1957
Hepper, F. Nigel (editor), Plant-Hunting for Kew, with
a foreword by David Attenborough, 1989
Hildebrandt, Johannes M., “Von Mombassa nach Kitui”,
Zeits. Gesells. Erdkunde
Berlin, 14 (1879): 241[-]278, 321[-]50
Hooker, Joseph D. and John Ball, Journal of a Tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas, 1878
Hutchinson, John, A Botanist in Southern Africa,
1946
James, F.L.,
The Unknown Horn of Africa,
1888 [plants listed in appendix by D. Oliver]
Johnston, Harry H., Liberia, 2 vols, 1906 [appendix
on the Flora By O. Stapf]
Johnston, Harry H., The Kilima-Njaro Expedition: A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern
Equatorial Africa, 1886 [plants by D. Oliver & J.G. Baker]
Kirk, John, The
Zambesi Journal, edited by Reginald Foskett, 2 vols, 1965
Government expeditions to Zambezi 1858[-]63 led by David Livingstone:
Kirk was a botanist and medical officer to the expedition
Ledermann, Carl, “Eine botanische Wanderung nach
Deutsch-Adamaua”, Mitteilungen
aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten,
1 (1912): 20[-]55
Livingstone, David, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, 1857
Masson, Francis, “An Account of Three Journeys from
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Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Adolf Freidrich, Duke of, From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile, 3 vols, 1913 [Mildbraed was the botanist]
Mecklenberg- Schwerin, Adolf Freidrich, Duke of,
In the Heart of Africa, translated from the German by G.E. Maberley-Oppler,
1910
Meyer, Hans, Across
East Africa’s Glaciers: An Account of the First Ascent of Kilimanjara, translated from the German by E.H.S. Calder,
1891
Lichens by Carl Mueller, Liverworts by B. Stein,
Flowering plants by A. Engler
Mildbraed, Johannes, Wiss. Ergeb. Deutsch Zentr.-Afrika-Exped. 1907[-]8, unter Herzogs zu Mecklenberg, Band 2, 1910[-]13
Monteiro, Joachim J., Angola and the River Congo,
1875
Monteiro, Rose, Delagoa Bay: Its Natives and Natural History, 1891
Niebuhr, Carlsten, Beschreibung von Arabien, 1772
Pehr Forsskal was the naturalist
Park, Mungo, Journal
of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the year 1805, plants
by Joseph Banks in Appendix
No V, 1815
Paterson, William, A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, 2nd edition, 2 vols,
1790
Poiret, Jean L.M., Voyage en Barbarie, 2 vols,
1789
Popov, G., “The vegetation of Socotra”, Journal of the Linnean Society, vol?
(1957): pages?
Salt, Henry, A
Voyage to Abyssinia and Travels into the interior of that Country Executed under the Orders of the British Government,
in the Years 1809 and 1810, 1814
Appendix IV: lxiii-lxv list of plants by Robert
Brown
Schön, James F. and Samuel A. Crowther, Journals of the Rev. James Frederick Schön
and Mr Samuel Crowther: Who, with the Sanction of Her Majesty’s
Government, Accompanied the Expedition up the
Niger in 1841, 1842
Schweinfurth, Georg, The Heart of Africa: Three Years’ Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored
Regions of Central Africa from 1868 to 1871, translated from the German
by Ellen E. Frewer, 2 vols, 1873
Scott, Hugh, “Journey to the Gughe Highlands (Southern
Ethiopia)”, Proceedings
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Scott, Hugh, “Journey to the High Simien district
of Northern Ethiopia, 1952[-]53”, Webbia,
11 (1955): 425[-]50
Shaw, Thomas, Travels
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Sparrman, Anders, Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope towards the Antarctic Polar Circle and
round the World, translated from the Swedish, 2 vols, 1785
Speke, John Hanning, Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, 1863 [with botanical
appendix]
Stuhlmann, Fransz, Mit Emin Pasha Ins Herz von Afrika, 1894
Synge, Patrick M., The Mountains of the Moon: An Expedition to the Equatorial Mountains
of Africa, 1937;
reprinted, 1985
Talbot, P. Amaury, In the Shadow of the Bush, 1912 [plants collected by Mrs Talbot]
Thomson, Joseph, To the Central African Lakes and Back: The Narrative of the Royal Geographical
Society’s East Central African Expedition, 1878[-]80, 2 vols,
1881
Thomson, Joseph, Through Masailand, 1887 [with botanical appendix]; edited and abridged
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Thonner, Franz, Im Afrikanischen Urwald, 1898
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Tuckey, James K., Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire, usually Called the Congo, in South Africa in 1816, 1818 [Appendix V pp. 420[-]485, plants
collected by Christian Smith]
Thunberg, Carl P., Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia, Made Between 1770[-]79, translated from the Swedish, 4 vols, 1794[-]95
Vogel, Eduard, ...Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 25 (1855): 237[-]45
Volkens, Georg, Der Kilimandscharo, 1897 [1884[-]85 expedition]
Wakefield, Thomas, “Routes of native Caravans”,
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 40 (1870): 303[-]39
Wakefield, Thomas, “The Rev. T. Wakefield’s Fourth
Journey to the Southern Galla country”, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, n.s. 4 (1882): 368
Wollaston, A.F.R., From Ruwenzori to the Congo: A Naturalist’s Journey across Africa,
1908, [plants listed by A.B.Rendle pp.278[-]285]
Further
Reading
Beentje, Henk J., “J.M. Hildebrandt (1847-1881):
Notes on His Travels and Plant Collections”, Kew Bulletin, 53 (1998): 835[-]56
Brown, Monty, Where
Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya’s Desert Lake, London: Quilla
Press, 1989
Carruthers, Jane and Marion Arnold, The Life and Work of Thomas Baines, Vlaeberg, South Africa:
Fernwood Press, 1995
Coats,
Alice M., The Quest for
Plants: A History of the Horticultural Explorers, London:
Studio Vista, 1969; as The Plant Hunters, New York: McGraw Hill,
1970
Condry, William, Wildflower Safari: The Life of Mary Richards, Llandysul: Gomer
Press, 1998
Doumet-Anderson, Napoleon, Preface in Exploration Scientifique de la Tunisie: Catalogue
raisonne des Plantes Vasculaires
de la Tunisie, edited
by Ed Bonnet and G. Barrette, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1896
Fernandes, A. (editor), “Histoire de l’exploration
botanique de l’Afrique au sud du Sahara”, Comptes
Rendus de la IV Reunion
de l’ A.E.T.F.A.T. 1960, Lisbon: Junta de Investigacões do
Ultramar, 1962
Gunn, Mary and L.E. Codd, Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa, Cape Town: Balkema, 1981
Hepper, F. Nigel (editor), Plant-Hunting for Kew, London: HMSO, 1989
Hepper, F. Nigel and I. Friis, The Plants of Pehr Forsskal’s Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica, Kew: Royal Botanic
Gardens, 1994
Hepper, F. Nigel and Fiona Neate, Plant Collectors in West Africa, Utrecht: Oosthoeks’ Uitgeversmaatschappij,
1971
Hoehnel, Ludwig von, Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie.
A Narrative of Count Samuel Teleki’s Exploring and Hunting
Expedition in Eastern Equatorial Africa in
1887 and 1888, translated from the German by Nancy Bell, London:
Longman, 1894
Hooker, W.J. (editor), Niger Flora; or, An Enumeration of the Plants of Western Tropical Africa,
London: Baillière, 1849
Hulton, Paul, F. Nigel Hepper and Ib Friis, Luigi Balugani’s Drawings of African Plants, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Center for
British Art, and Rotterdam: Balkema, 1991
Kurtz, F., “Uber J.M. Hildebrandts Reisen in Ostafrika”,
Verhand. Bot. Ver. Brandeb.
19 (1877): 3[-]9
Lemmon, Kenneth, The Golden Age of Plant Hunters, London: Phoenix House, 1968 [Masson
pp. 42[-]73; Africa pp. 121[-]149]
Perham, Margery and J. Simmons, African Discovery: An Anthology of Exploration,
London: Faber, 1942
Tabler, Edward C., Eric Axelson and Elaine N. Katz,
Baines on the Zambezi, 1858
to 1859, Johannesberg: Brenthurst Press, 1982
Baines was a botanist with Livingstone
Thomson, J.B., Joseph Thomson, African Explorer, London: Sampson Low, 1896
Wallis, J.P.R., Thomas Baines of Kings Lynn, Explorer and Artist, 1820[-]1875, London:
Jonathan Cape, 1941
Plant Hunting in Asia
Travel Writing
Farrer,
Reginald, On the Eaves of
the World, 2 vols, 1917; reprinted, 1975
Fletcher,
Harold R., A Quest of Flowers:
The Plant Explorations of Frank Ludlow and George Sherriff, told
from their Diaries and other Occasional Writings, 1975
Hooker,
Joseph Dalton, Himalayan
Journals; or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and
Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c, 2 vols, 1854;
new edition, revised and condensed, 1855; reprinted, 1969
Lancaster,
Roy, Plant Hunting in Nepal,
1981; revised and enlarged edition, as A
Plantsman in Nepal, 1995
Ward,
Frank Kingdon, Pilgrimage
for Plants, 1960
Wilson,
Ernest Henry, A Naturalist
in Western China, 2 vols, 1913
Wilson,
Ernest Henry, Plant Hunting,
2 vols, 1927
Further Reading
Bretschneider,
E., History of European
Botanical Discoveries in China, 2 vols, London: Sampson Low
Marston, 1898; reprinted, Leipzig: Zentral-Antiquariat der DDR,
1962
Briggs,
Roy W., “Chinese” Wilson:
A Life of Ernest H. Wilson, 1876[-]1930, London: HMSO, 1993
Coats,
Alice M., The Quest for
Plants: A History of the Horticultural Explorers, London:
Studio Vista, 1969; as The Plant Hunters, New York: McGraw Hill,
1970
Cox,
E.H.M., Plant Hunting in
China: A History of Botanical Exploration in China and the Tibetan
Marches, London: Collins, 1945; reprinted, Hong Kong, New
York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986
Foley,
Daniel J. (editor), The
Flowering World of “Chinese” Wilson, New York: Macmillan,
1969
Fournier,
Paul, Voyages et découvertes
scientifiques des missionnaires naturalistes français à travers
le monde pendant cinq siècles, Paris: Lechevalier, 1932
Illingworth,
John and Jane Routh (editors), Reginald
Farrer: Dalesman, Planthunter, Gardener, Lancaster: Centre
for North-West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster, 1991
Lee,
Henry, The Vegetable Lamb
of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant, London: Sampson
Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887
Plant Hunting in Europe
Further Reading
Ambrosoli,
Mauro, The Wild and the
Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350[-]1850, translated
by Mary McCann Salvatorelli, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1997
Though
the book concentrates on plants important in agriculture, it also
contains information about collecting other plants.
Coats,
Alice M., The Quest for
Plants: A History of the Horticultural Explorers, London:
Studio Vista, 1969; as The Plant Hunters, New York: McGraw Hill,
1970
Lack,
H. Walter, with David J. Mabberley, The
Flora Graeca Story: Sibthorp, Bauer, and Hawkins in the Levant,
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999
Zohary,
Daniel and Maria Hopf, Domestication
of Plants in the Old World, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon
Press, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
Plant Hunting: New World
Travel Writing
Appun,
Karl Ferdinand, Unter den
Tropen: Wanderungen durch Venezuela am Orinoco durch Britisch
Guyana und am Amazonenstrome in den Jahren 1849[-]1868 [In the Tropics:
Wanderings through Venezuela to the Orinoco, through British Guiana,
and to the Amazon River in the Years 1849-1868], 2 vols, 1871
A
lively account of the adventures of a German naturalist.
Audubon,
John James, Audubon and
his Journals, edited by Maria R. Audubon, 2 vols, 1897
Fascinating
record of the artist’s experiences in the American wilderness.
Azara,
Félix de, Viajes inéditas
de D. Félix de Azara desde Santa-Fe a la Asunción, al interior
del Paraguay, y a los pueblos de misiones [Unpublished Travels
of Felix de Azara from Santa Fe to Asunción, to the Interior of
Paraguay, and to the Mission Towns], 1873
The
memoirs of a boundary surveyor who turned to exploration and natural
history.
Bartram,
William, Travels, 1791
Enormously
popular and influential account of the author’s botanizing tours
in what are now the southeastern portions of the United States.
Bates,
Henry Walter, The Naturalist
on the River Amazons, 2 vols, 1863
An
account of the years Bates spent in the jungle collecting insects,
plants, and other biological specimens.
Berlandier,
Jean Louis, Voyage au Mexique
par Louis Berlandier pendant les années 1826 à 1834; as Journey to Mexico During the Years 1826 to 1834, translated by Sheila
M. Ohlendorf, Josette M. Bigelow, and Mary M. Standifer, 2 vols,
1980
A
detailed account of the author’s experiences botanizing in Mexico.
Castelnau,
Francis comte de, Expédition
dans les Parties Centrales de l’Amérique du Sud, 15 vols,
1850[-]59
A
complete account of one of the most ambitious expeditions to South
America during the 19th century.
Catesby,
Mark, The Natural History
of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, 1731[-]43
A
collection of exceptionally fine paintings of wildlife of all
kinds, with text.
Darwin,
Charles, Journal of Researches
into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited
During the Voyage of HMS Beagle around the World, 1845; many
reprints as Voyage of the Beagle
One
of the classics of travel writing, with many passages relevant
to plant hunting in South America.
Douglas,
David, Journal Kept by David
Douglas during his Travels in North America, 1823[-]1827,
1914
The
observations and experiences of a young Scotsman sent to study
the trees of the Pacific Northwest in the days before extensive
European settlement in the area.
Hernández,
Francisco, Historia de las
plantas de Nueva España [History of the Plants of New Spain],
1576
The
report of the first explorer in the New World to concentrate primarily
on plants, giving the results of his expedition to Mexico on behalf
of the king.
Humboldt,
Alexander von, Relation
historique du voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent, 3 vols, 1814[-]25; as Personal Narrative of Travels in the Equinoctial Regions of America, translated by Helen
Maria Williams, 1814[-]29
Probably
the single most influential book in the history of natural science
in South America.
Lewis,
Meriwether and William Clark, History
of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, 1814; The 3-volume edition is edited by Elliott Coues,
1965
An
accessible edition of the voluminous journals of the expedition.
Menzies,
Archibald, The Alaska Travel
Journal of Archibald Menzies, 1793[-]1794, edited by Wallace
M. Olson, 1993
The
observations of the botanist who accompanied Vancouver on his
lengthy explorations of the northern Pacific coastline.
Michaux,
André, Journal de mon Voyage,
1796; extracts as Journal
of André Michaux, 1793-1796,
translated and edited by Rueben Gold Thwaites, 1904
The
surviving notebooks kept by Michaux during his years of botanical
explorations in North America.
Michaux,
François André, Voyage à
l’ouest des monts Alleghanys, 1804; as Travels
to the West of the Alleghany
Mountains, 1805
Some
of the travels of the younger Michaux.
Mutis,
José Celestino, Expedición
botánica de José Celestino Mutis al nuevo reino de Granada y
Memorias inéditas de Francisco José de Caldas [Botanical Expedition
of José Celestino Mutis to the New Kingdom of Granada and Unpublished
Memoirs of Francisco José de Caldas], edited by Diego Mendoza,
1909
A
useful edition of the writings of Mutis, with the material by
Caldas added as a bonus.
Nuttall,
Thomas, A Journal of Travels
into the Arkansas Territory during the Year 1819, edited by
Savoie Lottinville, 1980
A
rare chance to read of Nuttall’s travels in his own words, as
almost all his writings were technical.
Orbigny,
Alcide d’, Voyage dans l’Amérique
méridionale [Travels in Southern America], 11 vols, 1835[-]47
A
formidably long and detailed account of the author’s first extended
expedition in South America.
Orbigny,
Alcide d’, Voyage dans les
deux Amériques [Travels in the Two Americas], 1853
A
one-volume supplement to the earlier work, recounting the author’s
subsequent travels.
Ruiz,
Hipólito, Travels of Ruiz,
Pavón, and Dombey in Peru and Chile (1777[-]1788), translated
by B.E. Dahlgren, 1940
A
condensed and accessible account of the expedition.
Spruce,
Richard, Notes of a Botanist
on the Amazon and Andes, edited by Alfred Russel Wallace,
2 vols, 1908
An
intriguing presentation of the botanist’s extant notes, prepared
by a colleague and contemporary.
Teale,
Edwin Way, North with the
Spring, 1951
The
first of several extraordinary books about the naturalist’s long
tours of the United States during each of the four seasons.
Wallace,
Alfred Russel, A Narrative
of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, 1853
Wallace’s
account of his sojourn in tropical America, before his better-known
travels in Asia.
Wickham,
Henry Alexander, Rough Notes
of a Journey Through the Wilderness, from Trinidad to Pará, Brazil, by Way of the Great Cataracts of the Orinoco, Atabapo, and
Rio Negro, 1872
Actually
includes accounts of two trips, the one suggested by the title
and another in Central America.
Further Reading
Coats,
Alice M., The Quest for
Plants: A History of the Horticultural Explorers, London:
Studio Vista, 1969; as The Plant Hunters, New York: McGraw Hill,
1970
The best starting point for anyone
wishing to investigate this topic.
Davies, John (editor), Douglas of the Forests: The North American
Journals of David Douglas, Seattle: University of Washington
Press, and Edinburgh: Harris, 1980
A biographical study of the explorer.
Frías Núñez, Marcelo, Tras El Dorado vegetal: José Celestino Mutis
y la real expedición botánica del
nuevo reino de Granada (1783[-]1803), Seville: Diputación
Provincial de Sevilla, 1994
A thorough scholarly study of Mutis
and his work.
Frick, George Frederick and Raymond
Phineas Stearns, Mark Catesby:
The Colonial Audubon, Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1961
A study of the work of the 18th-century
naturalist, explorer, and painter.
Goodman, Edward J., The Explorers of South America, New York:
Macmillan, 1972
An excellent, comprehensive survey
of the topic, with abundant details on plant hunters.
Graustein, Jeannette E., Thomas Nuttall, Naturalist: Explorations in
America, 1808[-]1841, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press, 1967
A study of the eccentric but accomplished
botanist.
Leroy, Jean F. (editor), Les Botanistes français en Amérique du Nord
avant 1850 [French Botanists in North America before 1850],
Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1957
The published proceedings of an international
colloquium on the subject.
McVaugh, Rogers, Edward Palmer: Plant Explorer of the American
West, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956
A biography of the explorer and collector.
Rice, Tony, Voyages of Discovery: Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration,
New York: Clarkson Potter, 1999
A recent survey of the subject.
Savage, Henry Jr and Elizabeth J. Savage,
André and François André
Michaux, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986
A study of the two French botanists
and their work in America.
Smith, Anthony, Explorers of the Amazon, New York and London: Viking, 1990
An engaging survey, with a chapter
on Humboldt and another on Spruce and Wickham.
Steele, Arthur Robert, Flowers for the King: The Expedition of Ruíz
and Pavón and the Flora of Peru,
Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1964
A scholarly historical study of the
expedition.
Thomas Platter, Felix Platter and Thomas
Platter, the younger
Travel
Writing
Thomas Platter the Elder
Lebensbeschreibung, edited by Alfred Hartmann,
1944
Hirtenknabe, Handwerker, Humanist. Die Selbstbiographie,
edited by Heinrich Boos, new edition with an afterword by Ralph-Rainer
Wuthenow, 1989
Thomas Platter: Geisshirt, Seiler, Professor,
Buchdrucker, Rektor. Ein Lebensbild aus dem Jahrhundert der Reformation,
edited by Paul Wirth, 1999
Platter’s
autobiography, in modernized German.
Felix Platter
Beloved Son Felix: The Journal of Felix Platter,
a Medical Student in Montpellier in the Sixteenth Century,
translated by Seán Jennett, 1961
English
translation, with inadequate commentary.
Felix Platter Tagebuch (Lebensbeschreibung)
1536[-]1537, edited by Valentin Lötscher, 1976
Scholarly
edition with excellent commentary.
Felix Platter, Beschreibung der Stadt Basel
1610 und Pestbericht 1610/11, edited by Valentin Lötscher,
1987
Thomas Platter the Younger
Thomas Platter’s Travels in England, 1599,
translated by Clare Williams, 1937
Journal of a Younger Brother: The Life of Thomas
Platter as a Medical Student in Montpellier at the Close of the
Sixteenth Century, translated by Seán Jennett, 1963
Deals
with Platter’s time in Montpellier and his travels in Spain only.
Beschreibung der Reisen durch Frankreich, Spanien,
England und die Niederlande, 1595[-]1600, 2 vols, edited by
Rut Keiser, 1968
Scholarly
edition of the complete text, with excellent commentary.
The Journals of Two Travellers in Elizabethan
and Early Stuart England: Thomas Platter and Horatio Busino,
edited by Peter Razzell, 1995
Based
on Williams’s translation, but adds the account by Horatio Busino,
chaplain to the Venetian ambassador, who was in England in 1617.
Further Reading
Bonnaffé,
Edmond, Voyages et Voyageurs
de la Renaissance, Paris: Leroux, 1895; reprinted, Geneva:
Slatkine, 1970
Burckhardt,
Achilles (editor), Thomas
Platters Briefe an seinen Sohn Felix, Basle: Detloff, 1890
Thirty-three
letters in a mixture of German and Latin from Thomas Platter to
his son Felix, written between 1551 and 1557.
Hochlenert,
Dieter, “Das ‘Tagebuch’ des Felix Platter. Die Autobiographie
eines Arztes und Humanisten” (dissertation), Tübingen: University
of Tübingen, 1996
Le
Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, Le
Mendiant et le professeur (vol. 1 of Le
siècle des Platter 1499[-]1628), Paris: Fayard, 1995; as The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga, translated
by Arthur Goldhammer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997
Lötscher,
Valentin, Felix Platter
und seine Familie, Basle: Helbing and Lichtenhahn, 1975
Monroe,
Paul, Thomas Platter and
the Educational Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century, New
York: Appleton, 1904
Trühler,
Ulrich (editor), Felix Platter
(1536[-]1614) in seiner Zeit, Basle: Schwabe, 1991
Richard Pococke 1704[-]1765
Travel Writing
A Description of the East, and Some Other Countries, 1743[-]45
The Travels of Richard Pococke, L.L.D. F.R.S,
through Egypt, Interspersed with Remarks and Observations by Captain
Norden, 1803
The Travels through England of Dr. Richard Pococke
... 1750, 51, and later, edited by James Jed Cartwright, 1888[-]09; reprinted, 1965
Tours in Scotland, 1747, 1750, 1760, 1887
Richard Pococke’s Irish Tours, edited
by Daniel William Kemp and John McVeigh, 1995
Further Reading
Damiani, Anita, Enlightened Observers: British Travellers to the Near East, 1715[-]1850,
Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1979
Honigmann, Ernst, Trois mémoires posthumes d’histoire et de géographie
de l’Orient Chretien, Brussells: 1961
Poetry
1.
Travel
Writing
American Poetry and Literacy Project
(editor), Songs for the
Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure, 1999
Affordable
collection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British poets,
including Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman,
Robert Louis Stevenson, John Masefield, Langston Hughes, Emily
Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, and many others.
Crossley-Holland, Kevin, The Oxford Book of Travel Verse, 1986
An extensive collection of travel poems
in English, categorized by type and locale.
Pain, Stephen (editor), The Open Road: Poems on Travel, 2000
A collection of 100 travel poems.
Further
Reading
Atkinson, Bob (editor), Songs of the Open Road: The Poetry of Folk
Rock and the Journey of the Hero, foreword by Oscar Brand,
commentary by Joseph Campbell and Walt Whitman, epilogue by C.G.
Jung, New York: New American Library, 1974
Washburn, Kathleen Grace, Travelers’ Tales and Beautiful Lies: Visions
of Travel in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Derek Walcott,
MA Thesis, North Carolina State University, 1997
Wyatt, John, Wordsworth’s Poems of Travel, 1819[-]42: ‘Such Sweet Wayfaring’, London:
Macmillan, and New York: St Martin’s Press, 1999
Marco Polo
1254[-]1324
Travel Writing
The Book
of Ser Marco Polo,
edited and translated by Henry Yule, 2 vols, 1871; 3rd edition,
revised by Henri Cordier, 1903; as Marco
Polo: The Description of the World, edited and
translated by A.C. Moule and Paul Pelliot, 2 vols, 1938, reprinted,
1976; also as The
Travels of Marco Polo, translated by Ronald Latham, 1958
Milione: il
Milione nelle redazioni toscana e franco-italiana / Le divisament
dou monde, edited by Gabriella Ronchi, with an
introduction by Cesare Segre, 1982
In
Italian and Franco-Venetian.
Il
“Milione” veneto: ms. CM 211 della Biblioteca Civica di Padova,
edited by Alvaro Barbieri and Alvise Andreose, 1999
First
complete edition of the Venetian version.
Further
Reading
Benedetto,
L.F., La tradizione manoscritta
del “Milione” di Marco Polo, Turin: Erasmo, 1962
Li
Wen-chien, Marco Polo in
China, Hong Kong: Kingsway, 1981
Olschki,
Leonardo, Marco Polo’s Asia:
An Introduction to His “Description of the World” Called “Il milione”,
translated by John A. Scott, Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1960
Watanabe,
Hiroshi, Marco Polo Bibliography,
1477[-]1983, Tokyo: Toyo Bunko, 1986
Wood,
Frances, Did Marco Polo
Go to China?, London: Secker and Warburg, 1995; Boulder, Colorado:
Westview Press, 1996
Juan Ponce De León 1474[-]1521
Further Reading
Abbey, Kathryn Trimmer, Florida, Land of Change, Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1941
A history of Florida from the first
exploration to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Ballesteros Gaibrois, Manuel, La Idea Colonial de Ponce de Léon: Un Ensayo
de Interpretación, San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña,
1960
Ballesteros provides an account of
the explorations of Ponce de León.
Devereux, Anthony Q., Juan Ponce de León, King Ferdinand, and the
Fountain of Youth, Spartanburg, South Carolina: Waccamaw Press
and the Reprint Company, 1993
This book provides much useful information
regarding the travels of Ponce de León. It is a very helpful source.
Gannon, Michael (editor), The New History of Florida, Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 1996
Gannon’s book contains some useful
pages about the conquistador, but the book is a general history
of Florida.
Herrera,
Antonio de, Historia general
de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas y tierra ferme del
mar océano, 8 vols, Madrid: Emprenta Real, 1601[-]15; edited
by Antonio Ballesteros Beretta and Miguel Gómez del Campillo,
17 vols, Madrid: Tipografía de Archivos, 1934[-]55; selections,
as The General History of
the Vast Continent and Islands of America, translated by John
Stephens, 6 vols, London: Batley, 1725[-]26; 2nd edition, London:
Longman, 1740; reprinted New York: AMS Press, 1973
Herrera, having access to Ponce de
León’s log, provides valuable information concerning the explorer’s
travels, including navigational data.
King, Ethel, The Fountain of Youth and Juan Ponce de Leon, Brooklyn, New York:
Gaus, 1963
A short biography that celebrates the
life and expeditions of Ponce de León.
Lawson, Edward W., The Discovery of Florida and Its Discoverer
Juan Ponce de León, St Augustine, Florida: privately published,
1946
A brief biography of Ponce de León--this
book contains some useful information but has been superseded
by other accounts, such as Devereux’s book.
Murga Sanz, Vicente, Juan Ponce de Léon: Fundador y primer gobernador
del pueblo Puertorriqueño descubridor de la Florida y del Estrecho
de las Bahamas, San Juan: Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1959
A very thorough and sound biography
of the explorer.
Peck, Douglas T., Ponce de León and the Discovery of Florida:
The Man, the Myth, and the Truth, St Paul, Minnesota: Pogo
Press, 1993
Peck’s book challenges previously-held
theories, such as the beliefs that the explorer was born in 1460
and that he sought the Fountain of Youth. Using Ponce de León’s
log, Peck sails on his yacht to retrace the explorer’s journey
to Florida in 1513.
Reynolds, Charles B., The Landing of Ponce de Leon: A Historical
Review, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey: privately published, 1934
This booklet contends that Herrera
was wrong about the place in Florida that Ponce de León landed,
that he in fact landed in St. Augustine by Hospital Creek.
Robert Ker Porter 1777[-]1842
Travel
Writing
Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden during the Years 1805, 1806, 1807,
and 1808,
1809
Letters from Portugal and Spain, Written during the March of the British
Troops under Sir John Moore, 1809
Narrative of the Campaign in Russia, during the Year 1812, 1812
Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c, 1821
Further Reading
Author, The Battle of Lodi, with an Accurate Sketch
of General Buonaparte’s Campaigns in Italy, Chiefly Intended as
a Companion to the Great Historical Picture Painted by Robert
Ker Porter, London: Publisher, 1803; with slightly
different title, New York: Southwick and Hardcastle, 1804
Dupouy, Walter (editor), Sir Robert Ker Porter’s Caracas Diary, 1825[-]1842:
A British Diplomat in a Newborn Nation, Caracas: Editorial
Arte, 1966
Author, An Historical Sketch of the Battle of
Alexandria, and of the Campaign in Egypt, Illustrative of the
Great Picture … Painted by Robert Ker Porter,
London: Nathaniel Scarlett, 1802; as A Correct Account of
the Battle of Alexandria … and a General Outline of the Great
Picture Painted by Robert Ker Porter, New York: Southwick and Hardcastle, 1804
Putnam, Peter, Seven Britons in Imperial Russia, 1698[-]1812, Princeton, New Jersey:
Princeton University Press, 1952
Portugal
Travel
Writing
Beckford,
William, Italy; with Sketches
of Spain and Portugal, 1834
Beckford,
William, Recollections of
an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha, 1835;
reprinted, 1972
Brandão,
Raúl, Ilhas Desconhecidas:
notas e paisagens, 1926
The
author devotes his text to the description of the Azorean islands.
Colbatch, John, An Account of the Court of Portugal, Under the Reign of the Present King,
Dom Pedro II, 1700
Dowden,
Edward (editor), The Correspondence
of Robert Southey with Caroline Bowles, 1881
This
collection of letters of Southey to his second wife is full of
references to Portugal.
Fielding, Henry, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, 1755
Freire,
Maria da Graça, A Primeira
Viagem: Romance, 1952
This
is a painful narrative describing the frustration of a first trip.
Garrett,
João Baptista de Almeida, Viagens
na minha terra, 1846
Garrett
was one of the initiators of modern literary prose in Portuguese.
His report, which still keeps its suggestive power, was initially
published in Revista Universal Lisbonense in 1843.
Link, Heinrich Friedrich, Travels
in Portugal, and through France and Spain, translated
by John Hinckley, 1801
Luzia
[Luísa de Freitas Lomelino], Cartas
do Campo e da Cidade [Letters from the Country and the City],
1923
The
author, although forgotten now, was one of the greatest writers
of travel literature in her time.
Nobre,
António, Só, 1892
One
of the most beautiful poems in the Portuguese language describes
a trip to the mountains of the river Douro, the Port wine landscape.
Pimentel,
Alberto, Chronicas de viagem
[Travel Chronicles],
1888
Description
of travels in Portugal.
Pimentel,
Alberto, Viagem à Roda das
Viagens [Trip around Travels],
1899
Pimentel
travels in his homeland and gives us his impressions.
Queirós,
José Maria Eça de, A Cidade
e As Serras, 1901; as The
City and the Mountains, translated by Roy Campbell, 1955
Eça
returns to his roots after having lived abroad and describes the
North of the country.
Quillinan,
Dorothy Wordsworth, Journal
of a Few Months’ Residence in Portugal, and Glimpses of the South
of Spain, 2 vols, 1847
Salazar,
Abel de Lima, Digressões
em Portugal [Travelling in Portugal], 1935
Southey, Robert, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal, 1797
Southey
gave the form of letters to the journal he wrote in Portugal and
in which he describes the Portuguese society of the 18th century.
Southey, Robert, Journals of a Residence in Portugal 1800[-]1801 and a Visit to France
1838, Supplemented by
Extracts from His Correspondence, edited by Adolfo Cabral,
1960
Teixeira-Gomes,
Agosto azul, 1904
The
colourful landscape from Algarve in the South of the country is
described in this narrative.
Vane,
C.W., Marquins of Londonderry,
A Steam Voyage to Constantinople, by the Rhine and the Danube,
in 1840[-]41, and to Portugal, Spain, &c., in 1839, 2
vols, 1842
Vieira,
José Augusto, Phototypias
do Minho, 1878
Impressions
of the Northern landscape of Portugal.
Further Reading
Adams, Percy G., Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,
1983
Araújo,
Luís Manuel de, Eça de Queirós
e o Egipto Faraónico [Eça
de Queirós and Egypt of the Pharaohs], Lisbon:
Comunicação, 1988
Azevedo,
Alves de, A América do Norte
através da sua literatura [North America Through its Literature],
Lisbon: Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, 1941
Bell,
Christopher, Portugal and
The Quest for the Indies,
London: Constable, and New York: Barnes and Noble, 1974
Branco,
Manoel Bernardes, Portugal
e os Estrangeiros [Portugal and its Foreign Visitors], 5 vols,
Lisbon: A.M. Pereira, 1879[-]95
The
author enumerates some of the foreign visitors who wrote about
Portugal.
Boorstin,
Daniel J., The Discoverers,
New York: Random House, 1983; London: Dent, 1984
Boxer,
C.R., From Lisbon to Goa,
1500[-]1750: Studies in Portuguese Maritime Enterprise, London:
Variorum, 1984
Boxer,
C.R., Portuguese Conquest
and Commerce in Southern Asia, 1500[-]1750, London: Variorum,
1985
Boxer,
C.R., Portuguese Merchants
and Missionaries in Feudal Japan 1543[-]1640, London: Variorum,
1986
Boxer,
C.R., Portuguese Seaborne
Empire, 1415[-]1825, London: Hutchinson, and New York: Knopf,
1969; reprinted, Manchester: Carcanet, 1991
Boxer,
C.R., Fidalgos in the Far
East 1550[-]1770, 2nd revised edition, Hong Kong, London and
New York: Oxford University Press, 1968
Cabral, Adolfo de Oliveira, Southey e Portugal 1774[-]1801: Aspectos de
Uma Biografia Literária [Southey and Portugal: Some Aspects
of a Literary Biography], Lisbon: P. Fernandes, 1959
Candeias,
Alberto, Portugal em Alguns
Escritores Inglêses [Portugal by Some English Writers], Lisbon:
Tip. Gráfica Lisbonense, 1946
Chaves,
Castelo Branco, Os Livros
de Viagens em Portugal no Século XVIII e a sua Projecção Europeia
[Travel Literature in Portugal in the 18th Century and its
European Projection], Lisbon: Instituto de Cultura Portuguesa, 1977
Cristovão, Fernando (editor), Condicionantes Culturais da Literatura
de Viagens
[Cultural Conditionings of Travel Literature], Lisbon: Cosmos,
1999
Diffie,
Bailey W. and George D. Winius, The Foundations of the Portuguese
Empire, 1415[-]1580,
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977
Godinho,
Vitorino Magalhães, Documentos
sobre a Expansão Portuguesa [Documents about Portuguese Expansion], vols 1[-]2, Lisbon: Gleba, 1943[-]45;
vol. 3, Lisbon: Cosmos, 1956
Hakluyt, Richard, The Principall Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation,
1589 (facsimile 1965); abridged edition as Voyages
and Discoveries, edited by Jack Beeching, 1972; reissued 1985
This
collection of travel reports includes several translations of
Portuguese texts.
Heawood, Edward, A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries, 1912;
reprinted, 1965
Hess,
Rainer, “Valery Larbaud au Portugal”, Revue
de Litterature Comparée, 40/2 (1966): 271[-]88
Kimble,
George H.T., Geography in
the Middle Ages, London: Methuen, 1938; New York: Russell
and Russell, 1968
Macaulay,
Rose, They Went to Portugal, London: Jonathan Cape, 1946; reprinted,
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985
Morão,
J.C. de Figaniére e and C.H.S. de la Figaniére, Algumas
Palavras Documentadas [Some Documented Words], Lisbon: Castro
e Irmão, 1861
Nunes,
Carmen and Maria Leonor Sardinha, O
Eco dos Descobrimentos na Literatura Portuguesa [The Echo
of the Discoveries in Portuguese Literature], Lisbon: Editora
Replicação, 1990
Penrose,
Boies, Travel and Discovery
in the Renaissance, 1420[-]1620, Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press, 1952; 2nd edition, 1955
Pires,
Maria Laura Bettencourt, Portugal
visto pelos Ingleses [Portugal Seen by the English], Lisbon:
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Científica, 1981
Pires,
Maria Laura Bettencourt, William
Beckford e Portugal [William Beckford and Portugal], Lisbon:
Edições 70, 1987
Prestage,
Edgar, The Portuguese Pioneers,
London: A. and C. Black, 1933
Raitt,
Lia Nóemia Rodrigues Correia, Garrett
and the English Muse,
London: Tamesis, 1983
Robertson,
Ian, Los Curiosos Impertinientes:
Viajeros Ingleses por España 1760[-]1855 [The Curious Impertinent
Travellers in Spain 1750[-]1855], translated by Francisco José
Mayan, Madrid: Nacionál, 1975
Teles,
Alberto, Lord Byron em Portugal, Lisbon: Typ. do Diário de Portugal, 1879
Wood,
A.J.R. Russell, The Portuguese Empire 1415[-]1808: A World
on the Move, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
Wood,
A.J.R. Russell, A World on the Move: The Portuguese in Africa,
Asia and America, 1415[-]1808, Manchester: Carcanet, 1992;
New York: Martin’s Press,
1993
Wood,
A.J.R. Russell, Portugal e o Mar: Um Mundo Entrelaçado [Portugal
and the Sea: An interlaced World], translated by Isabel Rolo,
Lisbon: Assirio e Alvim, 1997
Wright,
John Kirtland, The Geographical
Lore of the Time of the Crusades: A Study in the History of Medieval
Science and Tradition in Western Europe, New York: Dover,
1965
Postcards
Further Reading
Alloula, Malek, The Colonial Harem, translated by Myrna Godzich Wlad Godzich, with
an introduction by Barbara Harlow, Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1986
Duval, William and Valerie Monahan,
Collecting Postcards in Color, 1894[-]1914,
Poole: Blandford Press, 1978
Fitch, George, “Upon the Threatened
Extinction of the Art of Letter Writing”, American
Magazine, 70 (June 1910): 172[-]75
Harrington, John Walker, “Postal Carditis
and Some Allied Manias”, American
Magazine, 61 (March 1906): 562[-]67
Jay, Robert, The Trade Card in Nineteenth-Century America, Columbia: University
of Missouri Press, 1987
Mackenzie, John M., Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of
British Public Opinion 1880[-]1960, Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1984
Miller, George and Dorothy Miller,
Picture Postcards in the United States 1893[-]1918,
New York: Crown Publishers, 1976
Morgan, Hal and Andreas Brown, Prairie Fires and Paper Moons: The American
Photographic Postcard: 1900[-]1920, Boston: Godine, 1981
Ralph, Julian, “The Postal-Card Craze”,
Cosmopolitan, 32 (February
1902): 421[-]26
Schor, Naomi, “Cartes Postales: Representing
Paris, 1900”, Critical Inquiry,
18 (Winter 1992): 188[-]244
Stewart, Susan, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the
Collection, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984
Vanderwood, Paul J. and Frank N. Samponaro,
Border Fury: A Picture Postcard
Record of Mexico’s Revolution and U.S. War Preparedness, 1910[-]1917,
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988
Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalskii
1839[-]1888
Travel
Writing
Puteshestvie v Ussuriiskom krae, 1867[-]1869
[Travel in the Ussuri Region, 1867[-]1869], 1870; new edition,
1937
Mongoliia i strana Tangutov. Trekhletnee puteshestvie
v Vostochnoi nagornoi Azii, 2 vols, 1875[-]76; as Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes
of Northern Tibet, translated by E. Delmar Morgan, 1876
“Ot
Kul’dzhi za Tian’ Shan’ i na Lob Nor”, Izvestiia
Imperatorskago Russkago Geograficheskago Obshchestva, 13/5
(1877); new expanded edition, 1947; as From
Kulja, Across the Tian Shan to Lob-Nor, translated by E. Delmar
Morgan, 1879
Iz Zaisana cherez Khami v Tibeti na verkhov’ia
Zheltoi reki. Tret’e puteshestvie v Tsentral’noi Azii [From
Zaysan through Khami into Tibet and to the upper stream of the
Yellow River: Third Journey in Central Asia], 1883; new edition,
1948
“Sovremennoe
polozhenie Tsentral’noi Azii” [Recent Situation in Central Asia],
Russkii vestnik, 186/12 (1886): 472[-]524;
separate edition, 1887
Ot Kiakhty na istoki Zheltoi reki, issledovanie
severnoi okrainy Tibeta i put’ cherez Lob-Nor po basseinu Tarima:
chetvertoe puteshestvie v Tsentral’noi Azii [From Kyakhta
to the Yellow River Sources, Explorations of the northern regions
of Tibet and trip along Lop Nor down the Tarim Basin: Fourth Journey],
1888; new edition, 1948
Meteorologicheskie nabliudeniia N.M. Przheval’skago.
Obrabotal A.I. Voeikov [N.M. Przhevalskii’s Meteorological
Data Processed by Aleksandr I. Voeikov], 1895
“Stat’i.
Dnevniki. Pis’ma. Podgotovil k pechati teksty i sostavil vse ob’iasnenia
i primechaniia P.P. Pomerantsev” [Papers. Notebooks. Letters.
Published with explanations and notes by P.P. Pomerantsev], Izvestiia Vsesoiuznogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva, 72/4[-]5 (1940):
475[-]640
2. Further
Reading
Dubrovin,
N.F., Nikolai Mikhailovich
Przheval’skii: Biograficheskii ocherk [Nikolai Mikhailovich
Przhevalskii: Biographical Sketch], St Petersburg: Berezovsky,
1890
Izvestiia Vsesoiuznogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva,
72/4[-]5 (1940): 456[-]705
A
special issue of the Proceedings
of the Geographical Society of the USSR dedicated to the centenary
of the traveller. It contains a full annotated bibliography of
publications relating to Przhevalskii (including his own works)
listing 956 titles of books and papers.
Karataev,
N.M., Nikolai Mikhailovich
Przheval’skii, pervyi issledovatel’ prirody Tsentral’noi Azii
[Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalskii: First Explorer of Central
Asian Nature], Moscow: Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1948
Kozlov,
I.V., Velikii puteshestvennik:
Zhizn’ i deiatel’nost’ N.M. Przheval’skogo, pervogo issledovatelia
prirody Tsentral’noi Azii [The Great Traveller: Life and Activities
of N.M. Przhevalskii, First Explorer of Central Asian Nature],
Moscow: Mysl’, 1985
Kozlov,
P.K., V aziatskikh prostorakh.
Kniga o zhizni i puteshestviiakh N.M. Przheval’skogo [In Asian
Expanses. Book on the Life and Travels of N.M. Przhevalskii],
Khabarovsk, 1971
Murzaev,
E.M., A.V. Postnikov and G.V. Sdasiuk, N.M.
Przheval’skii i sovremennaia geografiia (k 150-letiiu so dnia
rozhdeniia) [N.M. Przhevalskii and Modern Geography (on his
150th birthday)], Moscow: Znanie, 1989
Murzaev,
E.M., “Nikolai Mikhailovich Przheval’skii (1839[-]1888)” in Tvortsy otechestvennoi nauki: geografi [Creators
of National Science: Geographers], edited by V.A. Esakov, Moscow:
Agar, 1996
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
Zelenin,
A.V., Puteshestviia N.M.
Przheval’skago [N.M. Przhevalskii’s Travels], 2 vols, St Petersburg:
Soykin, 1900
Publishing
Further Reading
Murray, John IV, John Murray III, 1808[-]1892: A Brief Memoir,
London, John Murray, 1919; New York: Knopf, 1920
Smiles, Samuel, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John
Murray, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House,
1768[-]1843, London: John Murray, and New York: Scribner,
1891
Wallis,
Philip, At the Sign of the
Ship: Notes on the House of Longman, 1724[-]1974, foreword
by Elizabeth Longman, Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1974
Samuel Purchas 1577[-]1626
Travel
Writing
Editor,
Purchas His Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the
World and the Religions Observed in all Ages and Places Discovered,
from the Creation unto this Present,
1613; as Purchas His
Pilgrimes, 4 vols, 1625; as Hakluytus
Posthumus; or, Purchas His Pilgrimes, 20 vols, 1905[-]07
The King’s Tower and Triumphant Arch of London,
1623
A
sermon delivered at St Paul’s Cross on 5 August 1622, eulogizing
London, her mercantile prowess, and the American colonies established
by her citizens.
Further
Reading
Adams,
Henry, “Captain John Smith”, North
American Review, 104 (1867): 1[-]30
Adams,
Percy G., Travelers and
Travel Liars, 1660[-]1800, Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1962
Foster,
Sir William, “Samuel Purchas” in Richard
Hakluyt and His Successors, edited by Edward Lynam, London:
Hakluyt Society, 1946
Juricek,
John T., “English Territorial Claims in North America under Elizabeth
and the Early Stuarts”, Terrae
Incognitae, 7 (1976): 7[-]22
Kolb,
Avery E., “Early Passengers to Virginia: When Did They Really
Arrive?”, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
68 (1980): 401[-]14
Laughton,
J.K., entry on Samuel Purchas, in Dictionary
of National Biography, vol. 47, London: Smith Elder, 1896;
vol. 16, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967[-]68
Letts,
Malcolm, “Purchas his Pilgrimes”, Contemporary
Review, 139 (1931): 757[-]62
MacLure,
Millar, The Paul’s Cross
Sermons, 1534[-]1642, Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1958
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
Miller,
Perry, Errand into the Wilderness,
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1956
Parker,
John, “Samuel Purchas, Spokesman for Empire” in Theatrum Orbis Librorum: Liber Amicorum Presented to Nico Israel on the
Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, edited by Ton Croiset
van Uchelen, Koert van der Horst, and Günther Schilder, Utrect:
Hes, 1989
Parks,
George B., Richard Hakluyt
and the English Voyages, edited and with an introduction by
James A. Williamson, New York: American Geographical Society,
1928; 2nd edition, New York: Ungar, 1961
Steele,
Colin, “From Hakluyt to Purchas” in The
Hakluyt Handbook, edited by D.B. Quinn, London: Hakluyt Society,
1974
Taylor,
E.G.R., Late Tudor and Early
Stuart Geography, 1583[-]1650,
London: Methuen, 1934, New
York: Octagon, 1968
Pyrenees
Travel Writing
Arbanère, Étienne Gabriel, Tableau des Pyrénées Françaises, 2 vols,
1828
The first book on the whole range.
Baring-Gould, S., A Book of the Pyrenees, 1907
Batty, Robert, Campaign of the Left Wing of the Allied Army, in the Western Pyrenees
and South of France, in the Years 1813[-]1914, 1823
Peninsular War memoir, 25 plates and
a map, concerns mainly the Basque country.
Belloc, Hilaire, The Pyrenees, 1909
Other editions in 1910, 1923, 1928
Bentham, George, Catalogue des plantes indigènes des Pyrénées et du Bas Languedoc,
1826
Pages 15 to 55 concern the Pyrenees.
The first printed account of a visit to Andorra.
Blackburn, Henry, The Pyrenees: A Descriptive of Summer Life
at French Watering Places, 1867
Numerous wood engravings by Gustave
Doré.
Boddington, Mary, Sketches in the Pyrenees, 2 vols, 1837
Brown, Miss, The Foreign Tour of the Misses Brown, Jones and Robinson..., c.1874
Parody of The Foreign Tour of the Messrs Brown, Jones and Robinson by Richard
Doyle. This early comic book is set in the Pyrenees and is a satire
of tourism.
Charpentier, Jean de, Essai sur la constitution geognostique des
Pyrénées, 1823
A landmark in the history of Pyrenean
geology. Often quoted by travel writers.
Chaussenque, Vincent de, Les Pyrénées ..., 2 vols, 1834
One
of the best Fench travel books of the period. A second edition
was published in 1854.
Paris T. Clifton, Letters from the Pyrenees during Three Months’
Pedestrian Wanderings Amidst the Wildest Scenes of the French
and Spanish Mountains, 1843
Colston, Marianne, Journal of a Tour in France, Switzerland, and
Italy, 3 vols, 1822
Two volumes of text and a volume of
plates. The Pyrenean part is to be found in volume 2, chapters
20, 21 and 22. The plates 24 to 50 concern the Pyrenees.
Dralet, Étienne François, Description des Pyrénées, 2 vols, 1813
Early
statistical study of the whole range.
Du Mège, Alexandre, Statistique générale des départemens Pyrénéens,
2 vols, 1828[-]29
Often quoted by English travellers.
Ellis, Sarah, Summer and Winter in the Pyrenees, 1841
Grant of Rothiemurchus, Elizabeth,
The Diaries of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus,
1843[-]1845; as A Highland
Lady in France 1843[-]1845, edited by Patricia Pelly and Andrew
Tod, 1996
Harding, J.D. and Johnson, J., The Costumes of the French Pyrenees, 1832
With thirty beautiful hand-coloured
lithographs.
Hardy, Joseph, A Picturesque and Descriptive Tour in the Mountains of the High Pyrenees,
1825
Twenty four aquatints.
Malus, Jean de, La Recherche et descouverte des mines des montagnes Pyrénées, 1601;
reprinted 1990
The first book on the Pyrenees.
Meighan, Christopher, A Treatise of the Nature and Powers of Bareges’s
Baths and Waters, 1742
Murray, James Erskine, A Summer in the Pyrenees, 1837
A French edition was published in 1998.
Oakley, Amy, Hill-Towns of the Pyrenees, 1923
With numerous wood engravings by Thornton
Oakley.
Oliver, William, Scenery of the Pyrenees, 1842
Possibly the most beautiful plate book
on the Pyrenees; 26 lithographs.
Packe, Charles, A Guide to the Pyrenees, 1862
The first guide book “intended for
the use of mountaineers”.
Ramond, Louis-François, Observations faites dans les Pyrénées,
1789; as Travels in the
Pyrenees, translated by F. Gold, 1813
Possibly the most influential book
ever written on the Pyrenees.
Richard, Guide aux Pyrénées, 1834
Most travellers used it. Several editions
until 1856 (6th edition).
Russell, Henry, Souvenirs d’un montagnard, 1878; 2nd edition 1888; 2 vols, 1930
The best known mountaineer of his generation.
Schrader, Franz, Pyrénées, 2 vols, 1936
The author was a painter and a mountaineer.
Spender, Harold, Through the High Pyrenees, 1898
One of the best mountaineering books
in English. Contains a useful bibliography.
Swinburne, Henry, Travels through Spain in the Years 1775 and
1776, 1779
Swinburne, Henry, Supplement to Mr Swinburne’s Travels through
Spain. Being a Journey from Bayonne to Marseilles, 1787
Taine, Hippolyte, Voyage aux eaux des Pyrénées, 1855; as
A Tour through the Pyrenees, 1874
The 3rd edition, entitled Voyage aux Pyrénées, contains 341 wood
engravings by Gustave Doré.
Taylor, Alexander, De L’Influence curative du climat de Pau...,
1843
Thiers, Adolphe, Les Pyrénées et le midi de la France pendant
les mois de novembre et décembre 1822, 1823; as The Pyrenees, and the South of France During the Months of November and
December 1822, 1823
Tonnelé, Alfred, Trois mois dans les Pyrénées et dans le midi
en 1858, 1859
Vaux, Frederic W., Rambles in the Pyrenees..., 1838
Weld, Charles Richard, The Pyrenees West and East, 1859
With eight illustrations.
Further Reading
Béraldi, Henri, Cent ans aux Pyrénées [A Hundred Years of Travels in the Pyrenees], 7 vols, Paris, 1898[-]1904; Pau:
Les Amis du Livre Pyrénéen, 1977
Besson, Françoise, “Le Paysage pyrénéen
dans les oeuvres d’écrivains et d’artistes Britanniques du dix-neuvième
siècle” (dissertation), Toulouse: Université Toulouse[-]Le Mirail,
1994
Briffaud, Serge, Naissance d’un paysage: La montagne pyrénéenne
à la croisée des regards, XVIe-XIXe siècle [The Birth of a Landscape. The Mountains of the
Pyrenees Observed, 16th[-]19th Century], Tarbes: Association Guillaume Moran,
Archives des Hautes-Pyrénées, 1994
Duloum, Joseph, Les Anglais dans les Pyrénées, et les debuts du tourisme pyrenées
[The English in the Pyrenees, and the start of Pyrenean Tourism ], Lourdes: Les Amis du Musée Pyrénéen, 1970
Fourcassié, Jean, Le Romantisme et les Pyrénées [Romanticism and the Pyrenees], Paris: Gallimard, 1940
Gaston, Marguerite, Images Romantiques des Pyrénées: les Pyrenees
dans la peinture et dans l’estampe à l’époque romantique [Romantic Images of the Pyrenees: The Pyrenees
in Paintings and Prints of the Romantic Era], Lourdes: Les Amis du Musée Pyrénéen,
1975
Grenier, Lise (editor), Le Voyage aux Pyrénées, ou, la route thermale
[The Journey to the Pyrenees, or, the Thermal Road], Tarbes: Randonnées Pyrénéennes, 1987
Labarère, Jacques, Essai de bibliographie pyrénéiste [An Essay of Pyreneist Bibliography], 2 vols, Pau: Les Amis du Livre Pyrénéen, 1986
Lasserre-Vergne, Anne, Les Pyrénées centrales dans la littérature
Française entre 1820 et 1870 [The Central Pyrenees in French Literature
between 1820 and 1870], Toulouse: Eché, 1985
Lévy, André (editor), Le dictionnaire des Pyrénées [The Dictionary of the Pyrenees], Toulouse: Privat, 1999
Reynolds, Kev, Mountains of the Pyrenees, Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone Press, 1982
Saule-Sorbé, Hélène, Pyrénées: voyage par les images, Serres-Castet:
Faucompret, 1993
Pytheas of Massilia
Travel Writing
Pytheas von Massalia, edited and translated by Hans Joachim Mette, 1952
Contains all the existing fragments
of Pytheas’ lost work.
Pytheas of Massalia: On the Ocean, edited and translated by Christina Horst Toseman,
1994
L´oceano / Pitea di Massalia, edited, translated and with an introduction
by Serena Bianchetti, 1998
Text in Italian and Greek, critical
matter in Italian.
Further Reading
Antonelli, Luca, I Greci oltre Gibralterra: rappresentazioni
mitiche dell´estremo occidente e navigazioni commerciali nello
spazio atlantico fra VIII e IV secolo a. C, Rome: L´Erma di
Bretschneider 1997
Austin, N.J E. and N.B. Rankov, Exploratio: Military and Political Intelligence
in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of
Adrianople, London and New York: Routledge, 1995
Cary,
Max and E.H. Warmington, The
Ancient Explorers, London: Methuen, and New York: Dodd Mead,
1929; revised edition, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963
Gisinger, Friedrich, entry on Pytheas
(1) in Paulys Realencyclopädie
24, edited by Wilhelm Kroll, Weimar: Druckenmüller 1963
Groche, G.E., Pythéas le Massaliote, Paris: Societé Française d’Imprimerie de Libraire,
1936
Güngerich, Rudolf, Die Küstenbeschreibungen in der griechischen
Literatur, Münster: Aschendorff, 1950; revised edition, 1975
Lasserre, F., entry on Pytheas (4)
in Der Kleine Pauly 4,
edited by Konrat Ziegler, Walther Sontheimer and Hans Gärtner,
Munich: Druckmüller, 1975
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