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Madame de Staël 1766[-]1817
Travel Writing
Dix années
d’exil, 1821; as
Ten Years’ Exile, 1821; new edition, 1968
(see also the edition with introduction and notes
by Simone Balayé, Bibliothèque 10:18, Paris: Union générale d’éditions,
1966)
Simone Balayé, Les Carnets de voyage de Madame de Staël: Contribution à la genèse de
ses oeuvres, 1971
(this edition includes all Staël’s surviving notebooks,
together with those of her daughter and fellow exile Albertine,
extensive editorial commentary, and an invaluable chronology of
her principal journeys)
Further Reading
Balayé, Simone, “Absence, Voyage, Exil” in Madame de Staël et l’Europe (colloque de Coppet 1966), Paris: Klincksieck, 1970
Balayé, Simone, Madame de Staël: lumières et liberté, Paris: Klincksieck, 1979
Isbell, John Claiborne, The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and Propaganda in Staël’s ‘De
l’Allemagne’, 1810-1813, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1994
Winegarten, Renée, Mme de Staël, Leamington Spa and Dover, New Hampshire: Berg, 1985
Hester Lucy Stanhope 1776[-]1839
Travel Writing
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, As Related by Herself in Conversation
with her Physician, with Charles Lewis Meryon, 3 vols, 1845
Travels of the Lady Hester Stanhope as Related by Herself in Conversation
with her Physician, with Charles Lewis Meryan, 3 vols, 1846
The Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope, by her Niece, the Duchess
of Cleveland,
by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland, 1897
The Nun of Lebanon: The Love Affair of Lady Hester Stanhope and Michael
Bruce: Their Newly Discovered Letters, edited by Ian Bruce, 1951
Further Reading
Buckingham, James Silk, Travels among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the
Countries East of Syria and Palestine, London: Longman, 1825
Burton, Isabel, The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life, Told in Part
by Herself and in Part by W.H. Wilkins, London: Hutchinson,
and New York: Dodd Mead, 1897
Childs, Virginia, Lady Hester Stanhope: Queen of the Desert,
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990
Hamel, Frank, Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, London: Cassell, 1913
Haslip, Joan, Lady Hester Stanhope, London: Cobden Sanderson, 1934; New York: Stokes,
1936
Hughes, Jean Gordon, Queen of the Desert: The Story of Lady Hester
Stanhope, London:
Macmillan, 1967
Kinglake, Alexander William, Eothen: or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from
the East, London: Ollivier, 1844, New York: Wiley and Putnam,
1845; with
an introduction by P.H. Newby, London: Lehmann, 1948
Mills, Sara, Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women’s Travel Writing and Colonialism,
London and New York: Routledge, 1991
Thomson, W.M., The Land and the Book, 3 vols, New York: Harper, 1859; London: Nelson,
1863; New York: Harper, 1988
Warburton, Eliot, The Crescent and the Cross; or Romance and
Realities of Eastern Travel, 2 vols, London: Colburn, and
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845
Henry Morton Stanley 1841[-]1904
Travel Writing
How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central
Africa, Including an Account of Four Months’ Residence with Dr
Livingstone,
1872; reprinted, 1970
Stanley’s account of his expedition,
dispatched by James Gordon Bennett of The
New York Herald, to find the Scottish missionary David Livingstone,
whom he finally met at Ujiji, on the shores of Lake Tanganika.
Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa, 1874
An account of two campaigns that Stanley
covered as a reporter: the first the British punitive mission
against Emperor Theodore of Abyssinia, and the second a war in
West Africa between British forces and the Ashantis.
My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave, 1873
A lighter, more personal account of
Stanley’s early African adventures.
Through the Dark Continent; or, The Sources of the Nile around the Great
Lakes of Equatorial Africa, and down the Livingstone River to
the Atlantic Ocean,
2 vols, 1878
Perhaps the most successful of all
African expeditions, on which many of the great questions about
Lake Victoria, the Lualaba, and the Congo was answered.
The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State, 2 vols, 1885
Tales of Stanley’s five-year sojourn
in the Congo, where he assisted in the founding of a state for
Leopold of Belgium.
In Darkest Africa; or, The Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor
of Equatoria,
2 vols, 1890
An account of Stanley’s grim journey
on his attempt to relieve Emin Pasha.
My Dark Companions and their Strange Stories, 1893
Reflections on Stanley’s various travelling
companions and an assortment of ethnographical tales.
My Early Travels and Adventures in America and Asia, 1895
A two-volume account of Stanley’s earliest
adventures, written after he was already a well-known writer and
explorer.
Through South Africa, 1898
Reflections on South Africa, where
Stanley predicted that the situation between the Boers and the
British was potentially explosive.
The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, edited by Dorothy Stanley, 1909
Published five years after his death,
this is a collection of writings by Stanley that were edited by
his wife. It contains extracts from his diaries from his early
days in the United States.
The Exploration Diaries of H.M. Stanley, edited by Richard Stanley and Alan Neame, 1961
Stanley’s Despatches to The New York Herald 1871[-]1872, 1874[-]1877, edited by Norman R. Bennett, 1970
Further Reading
Farwell, Byron, The Man Who Presumed: A Biography of Henry M. Stanley, New York: Holt,
1957; London: Longman, 1958
Hall,
Richard, Stanley: An Adventurer
Explored, London: Collins, 1974; Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1975
Jeal, Tim, Livingstone, London: Heinemann, and New York: Putnams, 1973
McLynn, Frank, Stanley: The Making of an African Explorer, London: Constable, 1989;
Chelsea, Michigan: Scarborough House, 1990
McLynn, Frank, Stanley: Sorcerer’s Apprentice, London: Constable, 1991
Schweitzer, George (editor), Emin Pasha: His Life and Work, 2 vols,
London: Constable, 1898
Freya Madeline Stark
1893[-]1993
Travel Writing
Baghdad Sketches, 1933
The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels, 1934
The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey to the Hadhramaut, 1936
A Winter in Arabia, 1940
Letters from Syria, 1942
Traveller’s Prelude: Autobiography 1893[-]1927,
1950
Beyond Euphrates: Autobiography 1928[-]1933, 1951
The Coast of Incense: Autobiography 1933[-]1939, 1953
Ionia: A Quest,
1954
The Lycian Shore, 1956
Alexander’s Path, from Caria to Cilicia, 1958
Riding to the Tigris, 1959
Dust in the Lion’s Paw: Autobiography, 1939[-]46, 1961
Rome on the Euphrates: The Story of a Frontier, 1966
The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan, 1970
Letters, vol.
1: The Furnace and the Cup,
1914[-]30; vol. 2: The
Open Door, 1930[-]35; vol. 3: The
Growth of Danger, 1935[-]39; vol. 4: Bridge
of the Levant, 1940[-]43; vol. 5: New
Worlds for Old, 1943[-]46; vol. 6: The
Broken Road, 1947[-]52; vol. 7: Some
Talk of Alexander, 1925[-]59; vol. 8: Traveller’s
Epilogue, 1960[-]80, vols 1[-]6 edited by Lucy Moorehead,
vols 7[-]8 edited by Caroline Moorehead, 1974[-]82
Over the Rim of the World: Selected Letters, edited by Caroline Moorehead, 1988
Further Reading
Burton, Rosemary, Richard Cavendish
and Bernard Stonehouse, Journeys
of the Great Explorers, New York: Facts on File, 1992
Campbell, Christine (editor), Coat-tails of Empire: The ADFA Letters: Freya
Stark’s Correspondence with Sir Harry Luke, Canberra: Australian
Scholarly Editions Centre, 1998
Cardiff,
Maurice, Friends Abroad:
Memories of Lawrence Durrell, Freya Stark, Patrick Leigh-Fermor,
Peggy Guggenheim, and Others, London and New York: Radcliffe
Press, 1997
Cullen, Derek and John Murray-Robertson,
Exploring the Land,
London: Macmillan, 1987; Needham, Massachusetts: Schoolhouse Press,
1988
En-Nehas, Jamal, “The Exploratory Journey
and the Representation of the Cultural Other in Freya Stark’s
The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian
Travels”, Journal of
the Oriental Institute, 43/1[-]2 (1993): 47[-]58
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher, Freya Stark: Passionate Nomad, London:
Chatto and Windus, 1999; as Passionate
Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark, New York: Random House, 1999
Hacker, Carlotta, Explorers, New York: Crabtree, 1998
Izzard, Molly, Freya Stark: A Biography, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993
Langley, Andrew, Twenty Explorers, New York: Cavendish,
1990
McLoone, Margo, Women Explorers in Asia: Lucy Atkinson, Alexandra David-Néel, Dervla Murphy,
Susie Carson Rijnhart, Freya Stark, Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone
Press, 1997
Maitland, Alexander, A Tower in a Wall, Edinburgh: Blackwood,
1982
Moorehead, Caroline, Freya Stark, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985
Morris,
Mary (editor), Maiden Voyages:
Writings of Women Travelers, New York: Vintage, 1993; as The Virago Book of Women Travellers, London: Virago, 1994
Robinson, Jane, Wayward Women: A Guide to Women Travellers, Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 1990
Ruthven, Malise, Freya Stark in Iraq and Kuwait, Reading:
Garnet, 1994
Ruthven, Malise, Freya Stark in the Levant, Reading: Garnet,
1994
Ruthven, Malise, Freya Stark in Persia, Reading: Garnet,
1994
Ruthven, Malise, Traveller through Time: A Photographic Journey
with Freya Stark, London and New York: Viking, 1986
Stefoff, Rebecca, Women of the World: Women Travelers and Explorers,
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992
Tinling, Marion, Women into the Unknown: A Sourcebook on Women
Explorers and Travelers, New York: Greenwood Press, 1989
Mariana Starke 1762(?)[-]1838
Travel
Writing
Letters from Italy, between the Years 1792 and 1798, Containing a View
of the Revolutions in that Country, from the Capture of Nice by
the French Republic to the Expulsion of Pope Pius VI, 2 vols, 1800; as Travels in Italy, 1802
Travels on the Continent, 1820; revised and enlarged as (Information
and Directions for) Travellers on the Continent of Europe,
1824, 1828, 1829; further revised as Travels in Europe for the Use of Travellers
on the Continent and Likewise in the island of Sicily to which
is added an account of the Remains of Italy, 1832, 1833, 1839
[Translated into French as Guide
classique du voyager en Italie, 1829[-]30]
Further Reading
Moskal, Jeanne, “English National Identity
in Mariana Starke’s The
Sword of Peace: India, Abolition, and the Rights of Women”
in Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790[-]1840,
edited by Catherine Burroughs, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2000
Moskal, Jeanne, “Napoleon, Nationalism,
and the Politics of Religion in Mariana Starke’s Letters from Italy” in Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and
the French Revolution, edited by Adriana Craciun and Kari
E. Lokke, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001
Moskal, Jeanne, “Politics and the Occupation
of a Nurse in Mariana Starke’s Letters
from Italy” in Romantic
Geographies: Discourse of Travel, 1775[-]1844, edited by Amanda
Gilroy, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000
Murray, John, III, “The Origin and
History of Murray’s Handbooks for Travellers” in John Murray III, 1808[-]1892: A Brief Memoir, by John Murray, IV (Chapter
2), London: John Murray, 1919; New York: Knopf, 1920
Robinson,
Jane, Wayward Women: A Guide
to Women Travellers, Oxford and New York: Oxford University
Press, 1990
Steamships
Travel Writing
Abbott,
Jacob, “Crossing the Atlantic” in his A
Summer in Scotland, 1848
Ainsworth,
William, A Personal Narrative
of the Euphrates Expedition, 1888
Dendy,
W.C., The Wild Hebrides,
1859
Dickens,
Charles, “Going Away” and “The Passage Out” in his American Notes for General Circulation, 1842
Forster,
E.M., A Passage to India, 1924
Stevenson,
Robert Louis, The Amateur
Emigrant, 1879
Thackeray,
William Makepeace, Notes
of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, with an introduction
by Sarah Searight, 1991
Contains
140 handsome illustrations.
Further Reading
Bowen,
Frank C., A Century of Atlantic
Travel, 1830[-]1930, Boston: Little Brown, 1930;
London: Sampson Low Marston, 1931
A
detailed account of the competing ships and companies: 80 black
and white plates.
Brinnin,
John Malcolm, The Sway of
the Grand Saloon: A Sociology of the North Atlantic, London:
Macmillan, and New York: Delacorte Press, 1971
A
rich account of the experience of the crossing.
Levenstein, Harvey, Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France
from Jefferson to the Jazz Age, Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1998
Very
useful on the social and economic broadening of the passenger
flow before and after World War I.
Lockwood,
Allison, Passionate Pilgrims:
The American Ttraveler in Great Britain, 1800[-]1914, Rutherford,
New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, and London:
Cornwall Books, 1981
Massively
researched, it draws on a wide range of journals, letter and books.
Searight,
Sarah, “The Road to India” in her The
British in the Middle East, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
1969, New York: Atheneum, 1970; revised edition, London: East[-]West
Publications, 1979
Very
useful on the various attempts to open up routes to the East.
Waugh,
Evelyn, A Handful of Dust,
1934
Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879[-]1962
Travel Writing
My Life with the Eskimo, 1913
The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum
of Natural History, 14/1 (1914); reprinted 1978
Covering the 1908[-]12 expedition.
The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions, 1921
Covers his 1913[-]18 expedition.
Hunters of the Great North, 1923
Covers his 1906[-]07 expedition.
Discovery: The Autobiography of Viljhalmur Stefansson, 1964
The Northward Course of Empire, 1922
The Adventure of Wrangel Island, 1925
The Standardization of Error, 1927
Adventures in Error, 1936
The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher in Search of a Passage to Cathay
and India by the North-West,
a.d. 1576[-]78,
from the original 1578 text of George Best, 1938
Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic, 1939
The Problem of Meighen Island, 1939
Iceland: The First American Republic, 1939
Ultima Thurle: Further Mysteries of the Arctic, 1940
Greenland,
1942
The Arctic Mannual, 1944
Not by Bread Alone, 1946
Great Adventures and Explorations from the Earliest Times to the Present,
as told by the Explorers Themselves, 1947
New Compass of the World, edited with Hans W. Weigert and Richard Edes Harrison, 1949
Northwest to Fortune: The Search of Western Man for a Commercially Practical
Route to the Far East, maps designed by James MacDonald, 1958
Cancer: Disease of Civilization?: An Anthropological and Historical Study,
1960
Further Reading
Bartlett, Robert A. and Ralph T. Hale,
Northward Ho! The Last Voyage
of the Karluk, Boston: Small, Maynard, 1916
Diubaldo, Richard J., Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic, Montreal:
McGill[-]Queen’s University Press, 1978
Hunt, William R., Stef: A Biography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson,
Canadian Arctic Explorer, Vancouver: University of British
Columbia Press, 1986
Jenness, Diamond, The People
of the Twilight, drawings by Claude Johnson, New York: Macmillan,
1928
Deals with the anthropological work
of the Southern Division of the Canadian Arctic Expedition.
Jenness, Stuart E. (editor), Arctic Odyssey: The Diary of Diamond Jenness,
Ethnologist with the Canadian Arctic Expedition in Northern Alaska
and Canada, 1913[-]16, Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization,
1991
Le Bourdais, Donat Marc, Stefansson. Ambassador of the North, Montreal:
Harvest House, 1963
McKinlay, William Laird, Karluk: The Great Untold Story of Arctic Exploration,
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976
McKinlay had been on board Karluk and on Wrangel Island.
Noice, Harold H., With Stefansson in the Arctic, London:
Harrap, and New York: Dodd Mead, 1924
Noice had travelled with Stefansson during the
1913[-]18 expedition.
Aurel Stein 1862[-]1943
Travel
Writing
Detailed Report of an Archaeological Tour with
the Buner Field Force, 1898
Notes on an Archaeological Tour in South Bihar
and Hazaribagh, 1901
Preliminary Report on a Journey of Archaeological
and Topographical Exploration in Chinese Turkestan, 1901
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan: Personal Narrative
of a Journey of Archaeological and Geographical Exploration in
Chinese Turkestan, 1903
Personal
narrative of the first Central Asian Expedition, 1900[-]01
Ancient Khotan: Detailed Report of Archaeological
Explorations in Chinese Turkestan, 2 vols, 1907
Scholarly
account of the first Central Asian Expedition, 1900[-]01
Ruins of Desert Cathay: Personal Narrative
of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China, 2 vols,
1912
Personal
narrative of the second Central Asian Expedition, 1906[-]08
Serindia: Detailed Report of Explorations in
Central Asia and Westernmost China, 5 vols, 1921
Scholarly
account of the second Central Asian Expedition, 1906[-]08
The Thousand Buddhas: Ancient Buddhist Paintings
from the Cave-Temples of Tun-Huang on the Western Frontier of
China, 1921
Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu
from the Surveys made during Sir Aurel Stein’s Explorations, 1900[-]1,
1906[-]8, 1913[-]15, 1923
Innermost Asia: Detailed Report of explorations
in Central Asia, Kan-su, and Eastern Iran, 4 vols, 1928
Scholarly
account of the third Central Asian Expedition, 1913[-]16
On Alexander’s Track to the Indus: Personal
Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India,
1929
Report
of the Swat Survey of 1926
An Archaeological Tour in Waziristan and Baluchistan,
1929
Northern
Baluchistan survey of 1927
An Archaeological Tour in Upper Swāt and
Adjacent Hill Tracts, 1929
An Archaeological Tour in Gedrosia, 1931
Southern
Baluchistan survey of 1927[-]28
On Ancient Central Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative
of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-western China,
1933; new edition with an introduction by Jeanette Mirsky, 1964
Based
on the Harvard lectures given in December 1929
Archaeological Reconnaissances in North-Western
India and South-Eastern Iran, 1937
Old Routes of Western Iran: Narrative of an
Archaeological Journey, 1940
The
West Iranian survey of 1935[-]36
“On
Alexander’s Route into Gedrosia: An Archaeological Tour in Las
Bela”, Geographical Journal, 102 (1943): 193[-]227
Sir Aurel Stein’s Limes Report: The Full Text
of M.A. Stein’s Unpublished Limes Report (His Aerial and Ground
Reconnaissances in Iraq and Transjordan in 1938[-]39), edited
by Shelagh Gregory and David Kennedy, 1985
An Archaeological Tour along the Ghaggar-Hakra
River, edited by S.P. Gupta, 1989
Further Reading
Bapat,
P.V., “Article
Title”, Annals of
the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 24 (1943): 285ff
Baumer,
Christoph, Southern Silk
Road: In the Footsteps of Sir Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin,
Bangkok: Orchard Press, 2000
Erdélyi,
István (editor), Sir Aurel
Stein Bibliography, 1885[-]1943, Bloomington, Indiana: Eurolingua,
1999
Hopkirk,
Peter, Foreign Devils on
the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of
Chinese Central Asia, London: John Murray, 1980
Mason,
Kenneth, entry on Aurel Stein in Dictionary
of National Biography, 1941[-]1950, edited by L.G. Wickham
Legg and E.T. Williams, London: Oxford University Press, 1959
Mirsky,
Jeannette, Sir Aurel Stein,
Archaeological Explorer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1977
Nag,
Kalidas, “Article
Title”, Journal of
the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 3/10 (1944): 205F
Oldham,
C.E.A.W., “Article
Title”, Proceeedings
of British Academy, 29 (1944): Pages?
Oldham,
C.E.A.W., “Article
Title”, Journal of
the Royal Asiatic Society, vol?
(1944): Pages?
Walker,
Annabel, Aurel Stein: Pioneer
of the Silk Road, London: John Murray, 1995; Seattle: University
of Washington Press, 1998
John Steinbeck 1902[-]1968
Travel Writing
The Grapes of Wrath, 1939
The Forgotten Village (film), 1941
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research (with Edward F. Ricketts), 1941; narrative
portion reissued as The
Log from the Sea of Cortez, 1951
The Wayward Bus, 1947
A Russian Journal, 1948 (with pictures by Robert Capa)
Travels with Charley: In Search of America, 1962
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to “The Grapes of Wrath”, 1988 (originally published as articles
for the San Francisco News
in 1936)
Further Reading
Benson, Jackson J., The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer:
A Biography, New York: Viking, and London: Heinemann, 1984
The most extensive account to date
of John Steinbeck’s life.
Enea, Sparky, With Steinbeck in the Sea of Cortez, edited
by Audry Lynch, Los Osos, California: Sand River Press, 1991
Narrative by the owner of the boat
that took Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts to Mexico for their 1940 study
of marine life published as The
Sea of Cortez.
Railsback, Brian E., Parallel Expeditions: Charles Darwin and the
Art of John Steinbeck, Moscow: University of Idaho Press,
1995
A critical comparison of Steinbeck’s
Log from “The Sea of Cortez”
and Charles Darwin’s Voyage
of the Beagle.
Steinbeck, John, Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, edited by
Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten, New York: Viking, and London:
Heinemann, 1975
A large collection of correspondence
documenting John Steinbeck’s life.
Valjean, Nelson, John Steinbeck: The Errant Knight: An Intimate
Biography of his California Years, San Francisco: Chronicle
Books, 1975
A biography of John Steinbeck by a
writer from his home town.
Stendhal 1783[-]1842
Travel
Writing
Rome, Naples et Florence en 1817, 1817;
revised edition, 1826; as Rome,
Naples and Florence, translated
by Richard Coe, 1959
Promenades dans Rome, 2 vols, 1829; as
A Roman Journal, translated by Haakon Chevalier,
1957
Mémoires d’un Touriste, 2 vols, 1838; revised
and enlarged edition, 1854; selection as Memoirs of a Tourist, translated by Allan Seager, 1962
Journal de voyage de Bordeaux à Valence,
1927; as Travels in the
South of France translated by Elisabeth Abbott, 1970
Voyages en France, edited by V. Del Litto,
1992
Contains
travel notes Stendhal made in preparation for a more complete
edition of Mémoires d’un Touriste, including an extended travel
account entitled “Voyage en France.”
Further
Reading
Berthier,
Philippe (editor), Relire
les “Mémoires d’un Touriste” (1838[-]1988), Grenoble: Université
Stendhal, 1988
Crouzet,
Michel, Stendhal et l’Italianité:
essai de mythologie romantique‚ Paris: Corti, 1982
Del
Litto, V. and Emanuele Kanceff (editors), Le
Journal de voyage et Stendhal, Geneva: Slatkine, 1986
Guentner,
Wendelin, Stendhal et son
lecteur: Essai sur les ‘Promenades dans Rome’, Tübingen:
Narr, 1990
Stendhal,
Journal, edited by Henri Debruye and Louis
Royer, 5 vols, Paris: Champion, 1923[-]34
Stendhal
kept a diary from 1801 until 1815, except for the years 1806[-]1807
which were lost in Russia
Stendhal,
Souvenirs d’égotisme, edited by Casimir
Stryienski, Paris: Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1892; as Memoirs
of an Egotist, translated by David Ellis, London: Chatto and
Windus, and New York: Horizon Press, 1975
An
autobiographical account of his life, principally between 1821
and 1830, during which he narrates his 1821 trip to England; written
in 1832.
Stendhal,
Correspondance générale, edited by V. Del
Litto et al., 6 vols,
Paris: Gallimard, 1997[-]99
Most
complete edition of his personal and official correspondance;
includes accounts of his many sojourns abroad.
John Lloyd Stephens 1805[-]1852 and Frederick
Catherwood 1799[-]1854
Travel
Writing
Plan of Jerusalem, 1835
Landscape Illustrations of the Bible: The
Temple of Artemis, Gerasa, with illustrations by Catherwood, 1836
A Description of a View of Thebes, with illustrations by Catherwood, 1836
Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petrea
and the Holy Land, 2 vols, (published by Stephens anonymously
as by a Gentleman), 1837; edited by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen,
1970
Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia
and Poland, 1838
Incidents of Travel in the Russian and Turkish
Empires, 2 vols, 1839
Hay,
Robert, Views in Cairo,
with illustrations by Catherwood, 1840
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas
and Yucatan, 2 vols, 1841; edited by Richard L. Predmore,
1949; with an introduction by Michael Schmidt, edited by Karl
Ackerman, 1993
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, 2 vols,
1843; edited by Karl Ackerman, 1996
Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America,
Chiapas and Yucatan, 25 lithographs, 1844
Bartlett,
William Henry, Walks about
the City and Environs of Jerusalem, with illustrations of
Dome of the Rock and Section of Mount Moriah by Catherwood, 1844
“Account
of the Punico-Libyan Monument at Dugga and the Remains of an Ancient
Structure at Bless near the Site of Ancient Carthage”, Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, 1
(1845)
“Engineer’s
Report [A report addressed to the Committee of Management of the
Demerara Railway Company -- Oct 30th 1846. Followed by Estimate
of the Cost of Constructing the Railway as Proposed between Georgetown
and Mahaica Creek, on the East Coast of Demerara]”, Report
of the London Committee Management of the Demerara Railway Company
(1847)
Further
Reading
Bourbon,
Fabio, The Lost Cities of
the Mayas: the Life, Art and Discoveries of Frederick
Catherwood, Shrewsbury: Swan Hill, New York: Abbeville, and
Mexico: Artes de Mexico, 1999
“Remarks
on Stephens’s ‘Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræ, and
the Holy Land’”, North American Review, 102 (1839)
The
contract signed by Stephens and Catherwood on 9 September 1839
is conserved at the Bancroft Library, University of California
Berkeley with numerous other papers belonging to Stephens and
eighteen letters written to him by Catherwood from 1839 [Collection
Number: BANC MSS--2--2--116]
Von
Hagen, Victor W., Birth
of American Archaeology with Explorations of Stephens and Catherwood,
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947
Von
Hagen, Victor Wolfgang, Catherwood,
Architect, New York: Oxford University Press, 1950
Von
Hagen, Victor Wolfgang, Maya
Explorer: John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Cities of Central America
and the Yucatan, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947
Von
Hagen, Victor Wolfgang, Search
for the Maya. The Story of Stephens and Catherwood,
Farnborough: Saxon House, 1973
Laurence Sterne 1713[-]1768
Travel
Writing
The
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 9 vols, 1759[-]67
Vol.
7 (1765) concerns a journey through France
A
Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, 2 vols, 1768
Further
Reading
Baker,
Van R., “Sterne and Piganiol de la Force: The Making of Volume
VII of Tristram Shandy”, Comparative Literature Studies, 13 (1976): 5[-]14
Details
Sterne’s debt to the French travel guide.
Cash,
Arthur H., Laurence Sterne:
The Early and Middle Years, London and New York: Methuen,
1975
Cash,
Arthur H., Laurence Sterne:
The Later Years, London and New York: Methuen, 1986
Now
standard two volume biography of Sterne. Sterne’s travels to Europe
are covered in Later Years,
as are the years of his success as a writer.
Curtis,
Lewis Perry, The Letters
of Laurence Sterne, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935
The
standard edition of Sterne’s letters. Also includes his unpublished
Journal to Eliza interwoven
with the letters from the same period. Supplementary letters can
be found
in Cash, 1986.
Hartley,
Lodwick, Laurence Sterne
in the Twentieth Century: An Essay and a Bibliography of Sternean
Studies, 1900[-]1965, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1966
Hartley,
Lodwick, Laurence Sterne:
An Annotated Bibliography, 1965[-]77, Boston: G.K. Hall, 1978
The
standard bibliographies of Sterne studies. Readers should be aware
that they are not always accurate. More recent works on Sterne
are detailed in the annual journal, The
Scriblerian.
Mullan,
John, Sentiment and Sociability:
The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1988
The
chapter on Sterne, “Laurence Sterne and the ‘Sociality’ of the
Novel”, contains valuable work on both Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental
Journey.
New,
Melvyn (editor), The Life
and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Laurence Sterne,
London: Macmillan, and New York: St Martin’s Press, 1992
Gathers
eight important contemporary critical essays on Tristram Shandy.
New,
Melvyn (editor), Critical
Essays on Laurence Sterne, New York: G.K. Hall, and London:
Prentice Hall International, 1998
Eighteen
recent essays on Sterne, collected and introduced by the editor
of the Florida edition of Sterne’s works.
Todd,
Janet, Sensibility: an Introduction,
London and New York: Methuen, 1986
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850[-]1894
Travel
Writing
Stevenson’s
books are available in numerous editions. I have quoted from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson,
edited by Bradford A. Booth and Ernest Mehew, 8 vols, 1994[-]95,
and In the South Seas, edited by Neil Rennie,
1998, and in all other cases from The
Works of Robert Louis Stevenson,
Tusitala edition, 35
vols, 1924; the appropriate volume numbers are included below.
An Inland Voyage, 1878; Tusitala edition,
vol. 17, 1924
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, 1879; Tusitala
edition, vol. 26, 1924
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes,
1879; Tusitala edition, vol. 17, 1924
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Essays in Belles
Lettres, 1881 (includes “Walking Tours” and “Ordered South”);
Tusitala edition, vol. 25, 1924, also includes “On the Enjoyment
of Unpleasant Places” and “Roads”)
The Silverado Squatters: Sketches from a Californian
Mountain, 1883; Tusitala edition, vol. 18, 1924
Memories and Portraits, 1887 (includes
“The Foreigner at Home” and “Memoirs of an Islet”); Tusitala edition,
vol. 29, 1924
Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays, edited by Sidney Colvin, 1892 (includes
the second part of The Amateur
Emigrant, “The Old Pacific Capital”, “Fontainebleau”, “Epilogue
to ‘An Inland Voyage’”, and two essays of “Random Memories” recalling
travels in Scotland)
The Amateur Emigrant: From the Clyde to Sandy
Hook, 1895; Tusitala edition, vol. 18, 1924 (includes “The
Old and New Pacific Capitals” and The
Silverado Squatters)
In the South Seas, 1896; edited with an
introduction by Neil Rennie, 1998
Songs of Travel and Other Verses, 1896
Essays of Travel, 1905
Further Memories, Tusitala edition, vol.
30, 1924 (includes essays on Scottish, English, French and Swiss
travel)
From Scotland to Silverado, edited by James
D. Hart, 1966
The
texts of the American travel writings, including previously unpublished
passages from the 1880 manuscript of The
Amateur Emigrant, the little-known essay “San Carlos Day”,
and the previously unpublished “Simoneau’s at Monterey”. Introduction
provides detailed biographical information on Stevenson’s stay
in California (1879[-]80) and analyses the style of his American
travel writing.
The Cévennes Journal: Notes on a Journey through
the French Highlands, edited by Gordon Golding, with notes
by Jacques Blondel, Gordon Golding and Jacques Poujol, 1978
An
edition of Stevenson’s original notebook and journal from his
Cévennes walking tour, showing its relation to the published text
of Travels with a Donkey.
Further
Reading
Bethke,
Frederick John, Three Victorian
Travel Writers: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism on Mrs.
Frances Milton Trollope, Samuel Butler, and Robert Louis Stevenson,
Boston: G.K. Hall, 1977
An
indispensable guide to reviews and criticism of Stevenson’s travel
books from their publication to 1974.
Conrad,
Peter, Imagining America,
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, and New York: Oxford University
Press, 1980
Includes
a chapter emphasizing the romantic, chivalric, and idyllic aspects
of Stevenson’s American travels.
Edmond,
Rod, Representing the South
Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin, Cambridge
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997
Argues
that In the South Seas
moves from the presentation of a “dying Pacific” to the exploration
of “an oceanic world capable of adaptation and survival”.
Knight,
Alanna (editor), R.L.S.
in the South Seas: An Intimate Photographic Record, Edinburgh:
Mainstream, 1986; New York: Paragon House, 1987
Photographs
from the Stevensons’ Pacific travels, with accompanying text from
family letters and diaries.
Maixner,
Paul (editor), Robert Louis
Stevenson: The Critical Heritage, London and Boston: Routledge
and Kegan Paul, 1981
Prints
reviews and extracts from private letters showing how Stevenson’s
travel writing was received by his contemporaries.
Menikoff,
Barry, “‘These Problematic Shores’: Robert Louis Stevenson in
the South Seas” in English
Literature and the Wider World, vol. 4, The
Ends of the Earth, edited by Simon Gatrell, Atlantic Highlands,
New Jersey: Ashfield Press, 1992
Argues
that Stevenson’s travel letters from the South Seas posed a problem
of cross-cultural interpretation too challenging for most Victorian
readers.
Smith,
Vanessa, Literary Culture
and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters, Cambridge
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998
Includes
a detailed reading of In
the South Seas analyssing Stevenson’s use of rhetoric and
performance to negotiate the roles of Pacific traveller and author.
Stevenson,
Robert Louis and Lloyd Osbourne, The
Wrecker, New York: Scribner, 1892; reprinted, New York: Dover,
1982
A
novel that Stevenson co-authored with his stepson, drawing on
travels in France, California, Australia, and the Pacific. The
Prologue and chapter 8, “Faces on the City Front”, are closely
related to his travel writings on the Marquesas and San Francisco
respectively.
Stevenson,
Robert Louis, Travels in
Hawaii, edited by A. Grove Day, Honolulu: University of Hawaii
Press, 1973
Stevenson’s
Hawaiian travel writing (excluded from In
the South Seas) together with personal letters and poems from
his two visits to Hawaii.
Stevenson,
Robert Louis, The Letters
of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Bradford A. Booth and
Ernest Mehew, 8 vols, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University
Press, 1994[-]95
Provides
personal background to Stevenson’s travels and insights into the
process of travel writing.
Stevenson,
Robert Louis, South Sea
Tales, edited by Roslyn Jolly, Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 1996
Stevenson’s
fictional treatment of material gathered on his three Pacific
cruises.
John McDouall Stuart 1815[-]1866
Travel
Writings
Explorations in Australia : The journals of J. McDouall Stuart During the
Years 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861 & 1862, When He Fixed the Centre
of the Continent and Successfully Crossed it from Sea to Sea, edited by William Hardman, 1865
J.M. Stuart’s Explorations Across the Continent of Australia, 1861[-]62, 1863
Further
Reading
Auld, W.P., Recollections of McDouall
Stuart, Adelaide: Sullivan’s Cove, 1984
Mudie, Ian, The Heroic Journey of John McDouall Stuart, Sydney: Angus and Robertson,
1968
Stokes, Edward, Across the Centre: John McDouall Stuart’s expeditions, 1860[-]62,
St Leonard’s, New South Wales: Allen and Unwin, 1996
Strehlow, T.G.H., Comments on the Journals of John McDouall Stuart,
Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1967
Webster, Mona S., John McDouall Stuart, with maps by Mary
Quick, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1958
Charles Sturt 1795[-]1869
Travel Writing
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, During the Years
1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831: With Observations on the Soil, Climate,
and General Resources of the Colony of New South Wales, 1833
Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia, Performed under the
Authority of Her Majesty’s Government, During the Years 1844,
5, and 6 together with a Notice of the Providence of South Australia,
in 1847, 1849
Further
Reading
Beale, Edgar, Sturt: The Chipped Idol: A Study of Charles Sturt, Expoler, Sydney:
Sydney University Press, 1979
Brock, Daniel George, To the Desert with Sturt: A Diary of the 1844
Expedition, edited by Kenneth Peake-Jones, Adelaide: Royal
Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch,
1975
Browne, John Harris, “Journal of the
Sturt Expedition 1844[-]45”, South
Australiana, 6/1 (1966): 23[-]54
Daniel Brock and John Harris Browne
travelled with Sturt on the journey to Central Australia. Brock
diary is notable for the author’s sense of moral superiority and
peevish criticisms of Sturt. Browne’s memoir is altogether more
sympathetic, and both are valuable for being rare alternate records
of an Australian expedition.
Cumpston, J.H.L., Charles Sturt: His Life and Journeys of Exploration,
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1951
Langley, Michael, Sturt of the Murray: Father of Australian Exploration,
London: Hale, 1969
Sturt, N.G., The Life of Charles Sturt, London: Smith Elder, 1899
Sudan
Travel Writing
Baker,
Samuel White, The Nile Tributaries
of Abyssinia, and Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs, 1867
Browne,
W.G., Travels in Africa,
Egypt and Syria, from theYyear 1792 to 1798, 1799
Bruce,
James, Travels to Discover
the Source of the Nile, 2nd edition, vol. 6, 1805
Burckhardt,
John Lewis, Travels in Nubia,
edited by W.M. Leake, 1819; reprinted, 1987
Cailliaud,
Frédéric, Voyage à Méroë
et au Fleuve Blanc, 4 vols, 1826[-]27; reprinted, 1972
Gessi,
Romolo, Seven Years in the
Soudan, Being a Record of Explorations, Adventrues, and Campaigns
against the Arab Slave Hunters, London, 1892; reprinted, 1968
Hoagland,
Edward, Africa Calliope:
A Journey to the Sudan, New York: Random House, 1979; London:
Penguin, 1981
Marno,
Ernst, Reisen in Gebiete
des blauen und weissen Nil, im egyptischen Sudan und den angrenzenden
Negerländern, in den Jahren 1869 bis 1873, 1874
Marno,
Ernst, Reise in der egyptischen
aequatorial-provinz und in Kordofan in den Jahren 1874-1876,
1878
Selim,
“Voyage aux sources du Nil Blanc”, Bulletin
de la Société de Géographie de Paris, 2nd series, 18 (1842)
Worrall,
Nick, Sudan, London
and New York: Quartet, 1980
Further Reading
Bredin,
Miles, The Pale Abyssinian:
A Life of James Bruce, African Explorer and Adventurer, London:
HarperCollins, 2000
Collins,
Robert O., Land beyond the
Rivers: The Southern Sudan, 1898[-]1918, New Haven, Connecticut:
Yale University Press, 1971
Middleton,
Dorothy, Baker of the Nile,
London: Falcon Press, 1949
Moorehead,
Alan, The White Nile,
London: Hamish Hamilton, and New York: Harper, 1960; revised edition,
1971
Shinnie,
P.L., Meroe: A Civilization
of the Sudan, London: Thames and Hudson, and New York: Praeger,
1967
Williams,
C.R., Wheels and Paddles
in the Sudan, 1923[-]1946, Edinburgh: Pentland Press, 1986
Jonathan Swift 1667[-]1745
Travel
Writing
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the
World, in Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver (universally known
as Gulliver’s Travels), 1726; revised edition, 1735
Further Reading
Boyle,
Frank, Swift as Nemesis:
Modernity and its Satirist,
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2000
Davis,
Herbert, Jonathan Swift:
Essays on his Satire and Other Studies, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1964
Glendinning,
Victoria, Jonathan Swift, London: Hutchinson, 1998
Nokes,
David, Jonathan Swift, a
Hypocrite Reversed: A Critical Biography, Oxford and New York:
Oxford University Press, 1985
Swift,
Jonathan, The Complete Poems,
edited by Pat Rogers, London and New York: Penguin, 1983
Swift,
Jonathan, Jonathan Swift,
edited by Angus Ross and David Woolley, Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 1984 (selected writings)
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