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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