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Studio Orientalia Travels in Ladak, Tartary and Kashmir
Book SynopsisFirst quality reprint of this famous travelogue. Relevant for anybody interested in Asia travels and colored plate books of the 19th century We were six white men in all - Our intention was to march from Simla due north to Le, the capital of Ladak; thence west-ward to Sree-nuggur, the capital of Kashmir; thence in a south-easterly direction via Chumba, and Kangra back to Simla, - in all, a circuit considerably over one thousand miles. This scheme was carried out in its integrity by only two of the party. For travellers who, like us, were anxious to see as much as possible in three short months, and were not disinclined to rough it, I can conceive no better route, leading us as it did through every vicissitude of Himalayan scenery, over the high table-lands of Thibetan Tartary, into the verdant vale of Kashmir, and so back through the tamer but scarcely less beautiful scenery of the lower ranges of the Himalaya, to the, tea-planted slopes of the Kangra valley, at which point the traveller may consider his wanderings in what has been called the Alpine Punjab at an end.' This excerpt from the opening of "Travels in Ladakh, Tartary, and Kashmir" by Lieutenant General Sir Henry D'Oyley Torrens offers a taste of this extraordinary book , originally published in 1862. Studio Orientalia's edition of this famous travelogue is based on the rare first edition published by Saunders Otley & Co. The text has been retyped and newly formatted according to the original, with 12 coloured plates, 2 of them folding panoramas in original size, numerous line-drawn illustrations and decorations to the text, included.
£42.75
Humboldt Into Your Solar Plexus
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£28.50
Oxford University Press Complete Gentlemen Educational Travel and Family
Book SynopsisThis is the first study to look beyond the Italian Grand Tour to the wider culture of educational travel that thrived among British and Irish landowners between 1650 and 1750. Based on deep archival research, it explores the meanings of continental travel for social mobility, elite formation, landed identity, masculinity and Englishness.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Before Travel 2: Finances, Social Standing and the 'Grand Tour' 3: Learning Abroad 4: Networking Abroad 5: Returns from Travel Conclusion Bibliography Index
£71.25
The University of Chicago Press Preserving the Self in the South Seas 16801840
Book SynopsisThis volume charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed.
£76.95
The University of Chicago Press Preserving the Self in the South Seas 16801840
Book SynopsisThis volume charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed.
£30.00
Yale University Press The Works of Samuel Johnson Vol 9
Book SynopsisIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
£104.50
Yale University Press Transports Travel Pleasure Imaginative
Book SynopsisIn this exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history and anthropology investigate the experiences of travellers and their ways of understanding and representing their encounter with the foreign.
£42.75
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies Worlds of Knowledge in Womens Travel Writing
Book SynopsisWorlds of Knowledge rediscovers the works of authors from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and challenges the frequent focus in travel studies on English-language texts. Written by experts in a wide range of fields, this interdisciplinary volume sheds new light on the range, innovation, and erudition of travel narratives by women.
£16.10
Cornell University Press This Luminous Coast Walking Englands Eastern Edge
Book SynopsisOver the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England and here takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water.Trade ReviewThis Luminous Coast is part travel guide, part memoir, part meditation, part elegy. Although it is occasioned by a sense of urgency, it never preaches; nor does the author claim any privileged knowledge, despite the wealth of information that he discreetly imparts. It doesn't demand our response, or even insist that we follow up the author's findings. However, if we let it do its work, we will be subtly changed. * Times Higher Education Supplement *Illustrated with the author's own photographs, This Luminous Coast is an elegiac meditation on a constantly changing landscape. * Financial Times *Table of ContentsPreface: A Year on the Coast 1. There Be Monsters 2. The Great Tide 3. Down by the Sea 4. Food & Fowl 5. Wild Archipelago 6. Wild by Industrial 7. Artery &Estuary 8. Strongholds 9. Shingle Shore 10. Erosion & Memory 11. Barrier Coast 12. Mud Cliff & Marsh 13. SandhillsCoda Notes Bibliography
£18.89
University of Toronto Press A Happy Holiday
Book SynopsisA Happy Holiday argues that overseas tourism offered people the chance to explore questions of identity during this period, a time in which issues such as gender, nation, and empire were the subject of much public debate and discussion.Trade Review'Morgan's valuable study of English Canadians and transatlantic tourism in the early decades of the Dominion combines travel literature, tourism history, and attitudinal studies... It makes an important contribution to our understanding of tourism, of cultural bonds within British Empire, and of identity formation in Canada's early decade.' -- Edward MacDonald H-Canada July 20, 2011
£70.55
Syracuse University Press Turkey Egypt and Syria
Book SynopsisVividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli¯ Nu‘ma¯ni¯ (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nu‘ma¯ni¯ took a six-month leave from teaching to travel to the Ottoman Empire in search of rare printed works and manuscripts.Trade ReviewA work of surprising complexity. The detailed notes, the appendices, the multilingual and multinational research that the translator has done. . . . The results have made the translation far more usefully accessible than the plain text could ever have been, as a primary source for scholars of Middle Eastern intellectual and cultural history of the period. Nu‘mani was one of India’s most creative and enterprising intellectuals at the turn of the 20th century. His travelogue to the Ottoman lands, a classic of Urdu literature, is a riveting account of his experiences as he met a wide range of individuals, visited schools and libraries, and collected scholarly materials with enthusiasm. Bruce’s lucid translation, supported by excellent notes and appendices, is without question a work that will at once inform and entertain. Bruce achieved a masterful translation of an influential late 19th century Urdu text of Shibli Noumani, his travel account of Turkey, Egypt and Syria in 1892. Readings an Indian Muslims proud observations of progress and reform in the ethnically mixed cities ruled by Ottoman Caliph Abdulhamid II will be essential to understand the late 19th century Pan-Islamism during an era of empire, race and geopolitics.
£30.56
University of Alabama Press On the Trail of the Maya Explorer
Book SynopsisIn October 1839, American travel writer John Lloyd Stephens climbed upon a mule in the Mico Mountains of eastern Guatemala to explore an obscure land with ""volcanoes and earthquakes, torn and distracted by civil war."" This title looks at his epic journey to find and describe the lost cities of the Maya.Trade ReviewAuthor Steve Glassman retraces Stephens' route, visiting the same Maya ruins, Spanish colonial towns, markets, and churches, many of them hardly changed in the 170 years since Stephens and Catherwood visited. Intertwining history, anthropology, and the environment, Glassman presents a wonderful tale of Stephens' adventure and his own. This is a fun and informative book for lovers of Mesoamerica who are drawn to the mysteries of the ancient and modern Maya. - American Archaeology
£26.96
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Travel Report
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University of Nebraska Press Travel and Travail
Book SynopsisPopular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, and often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fibre.Trade Review"This edited collection is a meaningful contribution to the literature concerning the movement and travel of women during the Age of Exploration. Up until this point, the literature has either fully ignored the movement of these women or marginally presented the travels of elite women post-eighteenth century. Therefore, Travel and Travail serves as a corrective, describing the very literal and very common travels of women during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."—Dyese Elliott-Newton, Comitatus"Travel and Travail produces important feminist knowledge and fills a lacuna in our understanding of the expanding global enterprise and women's place in it. It is marvelously written, a pleasure to read."—Mira'Assaf Kafantaris, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinay Journal"Travel and Travail, a collection of essays on early modern women's travel, is a timely and much-needed contribution to the scholarship of women's travel writing and women's mobility. The sixteen essays in this book collectively offer fresh insights into historical women travellers in the early modern world as well as literary representations of female travel on the English stage."—Yoojung Choi, Review of English Studies"These stories place women in the context of larger issues surrounding the early modern world—beyond their local cities and, what was considered at the time, domestic spaces."—Arazoo Ferozan, Renaissance and Reformation"Travel and Travail is a celebration of interdisciplinary research. . . . This work challenges historians, digital humanity scholars, and collegiate learners to look anew at their own understandings of women travelers in the early modern world."—Gina G. Bennett, Terrae Incognitae"Travel and Travail is a thrilling statement of a field in its emergence and will become a touchstone in scholarship on early modern women, early modern travel and colonialism, and early modern drama."—Gavin Hollis, Early Theater“Packed with fascinating case studies, this collection reveals overlooked evidence of early modern women traveling between England, Persia, India, and the Americas, alongside illuminating accounts of how dramatists characterized traveling women. Essential reading for students and scholars of travel writing.”—Gerald MacLean, professor emeritus of English literature, University of Exeter“By focusing on women, this book compellingly changes the way scholars will understand the nature and scope of travel in the early modern period. While offering impressive rereadings of fictional representations of women travelers, Travel and Travail is also rich in archival discoveries, unearthing surprising accounts of seventeenth-century women who traveled within and far beyond the British Isles. Akhimie and Andrea have orchestrated an original and important contribution to Early Modern studies.”—Jean E. Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University“An important collection for the field of travel writing and early modern women’s and gender studies more broadly. The collection seeks to establish a canon of women travelers in the period, and through the reoccurrence of certain key figures across the volume, both historical and fictional, it goes a long way towards doing so.”—Julia Schleck, associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska–LincolnTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea Part 1. Early Modern Women Travelers: Global and Local Trajectories 1. Desdemona and Mrs. Keeling Richmond Barbour 2. A Stranger Bride: Mariam Khan and the East India Company Karen Robertson 3. Sailing to India: Women, Travel, and Crisis in the Seventeenth Century Amrita Sen 4. Teresa Sampsonia Sherley: Amazon, Traveler, and Consort Carmen Nocentelli 5. The Global Travels of Teresa Sampsonia Sherley’s Carmelite Relic Bernadette Andrea 6. Gender and Travel Discourse: Richard Lassels’s “The Voyage of the Lady Catherine Whetenall from Brussells into Italy” (1650) Patricia Akhimie 7. Advance and Retreat: Reading English Colonial Choreographies of Pocahontas Elisa Oh 8. Lady Anne Clifford’s Way and Aristocratic Women’s Travel Laura Williamson Ambrose Part 2. Early Modern Women and the Globe: Gendered Travel on the English Stage 9. Mapping Women: Place Names and a Woman’s Place Laura Aydelotte 10. Eroticizing Women’s Travel: Desdemona and the Desire for Adventure in Othello Stephanie Chamberlain 11. Desdemona’s Divided Duty: Gender and Courtesy in Othello Michael Slater 12. From Adventure to Danger in the Travels of Desdemona and Miranda Eder Jaramillo 13. Marian Mobility, Black Madonnas, and the Cleopatra Complex Ruben Espinosa 14. Precarious Travail, Gender, and Narration in Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World Dyani Johns Taff 15. Traveling Companions: Shakespeare’s As You Like It and the Book of Ruth Suzanne Tartamella 16. English Women, Romance, and Global Travel in Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West, Part I Gaywyn Moore Afterword: Looking for the Women in Early Modern Travel Writing Mary C. Fuller Contributors Index
£25.19
Stanford University Press A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European
Book SynopsisIn 1869, Hayyim Habshush, a Yemeni Jew, accompanied the European orientalist Joseph Halévy on his archaeological tour of Yemen. Twenty years later, Habshush wrote A Vision of Yemen, a memoir of their travels, that provides a vivid account of daily life, religion, and politics. More than a simple travelogue, it is a work of trickster-tales, thick anthropological descriptions, and reflections on Jewish–Muslim relations. At its heart lies the fractious and intimate relationship between the Yemeni coppersmith and the "enlightened" European scholar and the collision between the cultures each represents. The book thus offers a powerful indigenous response to European Orientalism. This edition is the first English translation of Habshush's writings from the original Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew and includes an accessible historical introduction to the work. The translation maintains Habshush's gripping style and rich portrayal of the diverse communities and cultures of Yemen, offering a potent mixture of artful storytelling and cultural criticism, suffused with humor and empathy. Habshush writes about the daily lives of men and women, rich and poor, Jewish and Muslim, during a turbulent period of war and both Ottoman and European imperialist encroachment. With this translation, Alan Verskin recovers the lost voice of a man passionately committed to his land and people.Trade Review"Alan Verskin has provided a masterful translation of Hayyim Habshush's gripping account of his travels and a rare and intimate glimpse into Jewish and Muslim life in the Arabian hinterlands. A Vision of Yemen should be of great interest not only to students and scholars of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern history, but also to the wider audience of travel literature."—Norman A. Stillman, University of Oklahoma"A Vision in Yemen reveals Hayyim Habshush's remarkable curiosity about his own society in nineteenth-century Yemen and its ancient history. With his masterful translation, Alan Verskin elucidates time and place for modern readers, bringing Habshush and his European interlocutors to life."—Brinkley Messick, Columbia University"Alan Verskin's book goes a long way in countering the various orientalist tropes that have often characterised our understanding of Yemeni Jews by rendering accessible the travelogue A Vision of Yemen....It enhances our understanding of encounters between East and West, and more importantly is a testament to Muslim-Jewish relations in the Middle East just as cacophonous sectarian voices dominate the region's public discourse."—Thanos Petouris, Asian Affairs
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press Canoe Country
Book SynopsisThe classic and gorgeous accounts of two legendary naturalists’ journeys through summer and winter in the north country—in two new stand-alone paperback editions When Canoe Country and Snowshoe Country were first published, in 1938 and 1944, respectively, readers were charmed by their enchanting portrayal of the wilderness of northern Minnesota. Florence Page Jaques and her husband, Francis Lee Jaques, became celebrated champions of the Boundary Waters and its majestic environs. Now, these classic books are both back in print as paperback editions. A well-traveled New York sophisticate, Florence Page Jaques fell in love with northern Minnesota during her first trips to the region, and she recounted those early experiences in Canoe Country and Snowshoe Country. She writes of the excitement of traveling by foot, canoe, snowshoe, and dogsled. Weeks of solitude canoeing through the Boundary Waters are interrupted by encounters with the denizens of the north country. In these two volumes, her vivid stories are matched by her famous husband’s spectacular drawings; Francis Lee Jaques captures the delicate power of Minnesota’s seasons, from the cascading falls of summer to the frozen lakes of winter.
£12.34
University of Minnesota Press Snowshoe Country
Book SynopsisThe classic and gorgeous accounts of two legendary naturalists’ journeys through summer and winter in the north country—in two new stand-alone paperback editions When Canoe Country and Snowshoe Country were first published, in 1938 and 1944, respectively, readers were charmed by their enchanting portrayal of the wilderness of northern Minnesota. Florence Page Jaques and her husband, Francis Lee Jaques, became celebrated champions of the Boundary Waters and its majestic environs. Now, these classic books are both back in print as paperback editions. A well-traveled New York sophisticate, Florence Page Jaques fell in love with northern Minnesota during her first trips to the region, and she recounted those early experiences in Canoe Country and Snowshoe Country. She writes of the excitement of traveling by foot, canoe, snowshoe, and dogsled. Weeks of solitude canoeing through the Boundary Waters are interrupted by encounters with the denizens of the north country. In these two volumes, her vivid stories are matched by her famous husband’s spectacular drawings; Francis Lee Jaques captures the delicate power of Minnesota’s seasons, from the cascading falls of summer to the frozen lakes of winter.Trade Review "This is a delightful book for anyone who appreciates the Northwoods."—Northern Wilds
£12.34
University of Massachusetts Press The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1871, Ralph Waldo Emerson boarded a train in Concord, Massachusetts, bound for a month-and-a-half-long tour of California—an interlude that became one of the highlights of his life. On their journey across the American West, he and his companions would take in breathtaking vistas in the Rockies and along the Pacific Coast, speak with a young John Muir in the Yosemite Valley, stop off in Salt Lake City for a meeting with Brigham Young, and encounter a diversity of communities and cultures that would challenge their Yankee prejudices.Based on original research employing newly discovered documents, The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson maps the public story of this group's travels onto the private story of Emerson's final years, as aphasia set in and increasingly robbed him of his words. Engaging and compelling, this travelogue makes it clear that Emerson was still capable of wonder, surprise, and friendship, debunking the presumed darkness of his last decade.
£21.80
University of Massachusetts Press The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1871, Ralph Waldo Emerson boarded a train in Concord, Massachusetts, bound for a month-and-a-half-long tour of California—an interlude that became one of the highlights of his life. On their journey across the American West, he and his companions would take in breathtaking vistas in the Rockies and along the Pacific Coast, speak with a young John Muir in the Yosemite Valley, stop off in Salt Lake City for a meeting with Brigham Young, and encounter a diversity of communities and cultures that would challenge their Yankee prejudices.Based on original research employing newly discovered documents, The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson maps the public story of this group's travels onto the private story of Emerson's final years, as aphasia set in and increasingly robbed him of his words. Engaging and compelling, this travelogue makes it clear that Emerson was still capable of wonder, surprise, and friendship, debunking the presumed darkness of his last decade.
£65.45
Liverpool University Press In the Shadow of Sinai: Stories of Travel and
Book SynopsisIN THE SHADOW OF SINAI: A STORY OF TRAVEL AND RESEARCH FROM 1895-1897 and HOW THE CODEX WAS FOUND: A NARRATIVE OF TWO VISITS TO SINAI: FROM MRS LEWIS'S JOURNALS, 1892-1893—published here in a new one-volume edition—were originally published in the late 1890's, to great acclaim. They are not only interesting and witty travelogues, but they are also a superb record of the discovery of the Syriac palimpsest, and a narrative of the journeys and adventures surrounding that research. The text describes a very remarkable variant of the reported spoken word of Jesus Christ (Matthew xii: 36), which will be of interest to all Christians and scholars.Trade Review"It is with the observant eye...that these fascinating stories of their travels and the discovery of the Syriac manuscript of the Gospels are told. Better than many a novel..." -- The Expository Times of In The Shadow of Sinai."Delightful... such accounts remain period pieces to attitudes, observations, labors, and ventures a century past. Historians of feminism might enjoy rediscovering these Victorian scholarly women." -- ChoiceBBC 2: Bible Hunters follow in the footsteps of the Scottish sisters Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson with In the Shadow of Sinai (published by The Alpha Press).Table of ContentsIntroduction; The Early Years; Peace River Airways; Adventures in Airline Transport; Helping the US Military; The Search for CPD; Royal Airforce Ferry Command; The National Airline; After the Airlines; One More Trip; Epilogue.
£52.25
NIAS Press Laotian Pages: A Classic Account of Travel in
Book SynopsisLaos, 1900 - a frontier land caught in a power struggle between Eastern kingdoms and Western colonial powers, a fertile place teetering between an ancient pastoral existence and the modern machine age. Alfred Raquez's Laotian Pages vividly describes his exploration of the diverse kingdoms of Laos at the turn of the last century with the same Parisian verve and ironic turn of mind that he brought to his first travel book, In the Land of Pagodas. Raquez's keen eye and sensitivity to the exotic in both nature and human culture, combined with a mastery of the genre and his hallmark conversational style, transport the reader to the largely unexplored frontier of fin-de-siecle Indochina. Long known only to specialists on the history and ethnography of the region, this new work presents a scholarly translation into English together with Raquez's original photographs that will finally allow a wide audience to experience the joys and hardships of travel in a land that is both timeless and forever changing. In addition, a wide-ranging introduction and extensive footnotes provide historical context and `then-and-now' perspectives on the cultures and landscape that have undergone massive change in the past century. In the Land of Pagodas, a scholarly translation by William L. Gibson and Paul Bruthiaux of Alfred Raquez's book of travels through China in 1899, was published in 2017 by NIAS Press.
£97.75
City University of Hong Kong Press The Orient Explorer Collection
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£160.50
Ridge Books Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the
Book SynopsisJacob Gotfried Haafner (1754-1809) was a writer of great talent, and an early dissenting voice from within the colonial enterprise. Haafner was orphaned in the Dutch East Indies, and lived in South Africa, Sri Lanka, India and Mauritius for more than 20 years. On his return to Europe he transformed himself into one of the most popular Dutch writers of the early 19th century, for his travel writing in the Romantic mode. Books like his popular Travels in a Palanquin were translated into the major European languages, and his essays on the havoc wrought by missionaries worldwide stirred up great controversy, particularly in his home country of the Netherlands. He was a fierce critic of English machinations in India: "Had I to write the history of the English and their deeds in Asia", Haafner once said, "it would be the spitting image of hell". But there was a scholarly side to him to complement the pamphleteer and travel writer, working to promote European understanding of Indian literature, myth and religion, including through his translation of the Ramayana into Dutch.With the help of generous excerpts from Haafner's own writings, including material newly translated into English, van der Velde tells an affecting story of a young man who made a world for himself along the Coromandel Coast, in Ceylon and Calcutta, but who returned to Europe to live the last years of his life in Amsterdam, suffering an acute nostalgia for Asia: "No, in Europe and especially in its northern climes, no one enjoys their life..." This will be compelling reading for anyone interested in European response to the cultures of Asia.Trade Review“Haafner’s stories often seem outrageous, yet van der Velde shows how independent records verify his accounts.” “A vibrant and deliberately concise biography. . . . van der Velde paints a unique image of the late eighteenth-century colonial world, through the medium of Haafner’s stories.”Table of ContentsIntroduction: Haafner's Journeys Haafner's Work and His World Reactions to Haafner My Journey to Haafner Chapter 1: A Wandering Existence Carefree First Adventure in Porto Praya The Cape of Good Hope Adultery and Torture Khoikhoi Love Beads Famous Lost Son The Umbilical Cord Unravels Chapter 2: Struggle for Life Sardis: A Futile Person Graveyard of the Europeans Willem Koelbier: The Bloodthirsty Tiger At the Pen in Nagapatnam The Sadras Idyll Advanced Science Sadras Lost, Disastrous Cost Chapter 3: Where can Our Soul Shelter? Famine in Madras The Foolish Count Bonvoux Anna's Embrace The Palmetto Oh, That Wanderlust! Baker George Most Reasonable of the Unreasonable Mestizo among the Mestizos Delusion and Pimberah Forsaken by Anna Chapter 4: Passion for India Merchant in Calcutta The Impetuous Julius Soubise Sunrise Mamia! Snakebite Lily of the South In the Land of the Dodo and Javanese Hawfinch Heaven and Earth Perished Chapter 5: Languishing in Europe Kees, Kees! Shouted the Orange Rabble A Full Purse The Haafner Case The Dutch Society of Sciences Laureate of the Teylers Theological Society The God of One's Tyrants A Shot across the Bow of the Mission Phallus Worship Farewell Lovable Objects! Postscript Sources Jacob G. Haafner (1754–1809): A Brief Chronology of His Life List of Publications by Jacob Haafner List of Publications on Jacob Haafner Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Memoirs of an Eighteenth Century Footman John Macdonald Travels 17451779 Broadway Travellers
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nova Francia A Description of Acadia 1606
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Travels and Adventures
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sir Anthony Sherley and his Persian Adventure The Broadway Travellers
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Don Juan of Persia A Shiah Catholic 15601604 Broadway Travellers
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Travels of an Alchemist The Journey of the Taoist ChangChun from China to the Hundukush at the Summons of Chingiz Khan Volume 22 Broadway Travellers
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Account of Tibet The Travels of Ippolito Desideri of Pistoia SJ 1712 1727 Broadway Travellers
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Taylor & Francis Travel Narratives in Translation 17501830
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Travel Writings of John Moore
Book SynopsisJohn Moore was a Scottish physician who travelled extensively and wrote immensely popular accounts of these, which brought him international fame. Despite this, his travel writings have not been available since 1820. This collection will be the first in almost two centuries to present his Travel Writings to historians and literary scholars.
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Cambridge University Press Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance
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Cambridge University Press Women Writing and Travel in the Eighteenth Century
Book SynopsisThe eighteenth century witnessed the publication of an unprecedented number of voyages and travels, genuine and fictional. Within a genre distinguished by its diversity, curiosity, and experimental impulses, Katrina O''Loughlin investigates not just how women in the eighteenth century experienced travel, but also how travel writing facilitated their participation in literary and political culture. She canvases a range of accounts by intrepid women, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu''s Turkish Embassy Letters, Lady Craven''s Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, Eliza Justice''s A Voyage to Russia, and Anna Maria Falconbridge''s Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone. Moving from Ottoman courts to theatres of war, O''Loughlin shows how gender frames access to people and spaces outside Enlightenment and Romantic Britain, and how travel provides women with a powerful cultural form for re-imagining their place in the world.Trade Review'Impressive in its geographical scope … this valuable contribution to studies in travel writing reanimates crucial voices in eighteenth-century literature and culture. Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century would interest scholars focused on alternative literary histories of subjectivity (as distinct from the novel), premodern travel writing, women's writing, eighteenth-century colonial discourse, the emergence of a secular middle class, politics and British aristocratic identity, eighteenth-century Russia and the Levant, and more.' Laura Williamson Ambrose, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary JournalTable of Contents'The paper globe': women, writing, and travel in the eighteenth century; 1. 'A very diligent curiosity': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Embassy Letters; 2. 'Wrecked on seas of ink': publicity and sovereignty of taste in Lady Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople; 3. 'Entre nous': the sociability of feeling in Jane Vigor's Letters from a Lady in Russia; 4. 'No small wonder to see myself in print': virtuous commerce and Eliza Justice's A Voyage to Russia; 5. 'My Travels have been to the Moon and the Stars': Janet Schaw's journal and Atlantic sociability; 6. 'Thorns and thistles': Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone; Conclusion. La 'Dame pensive'.
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Cambridge University Press The Journal of a Tour to Corsica And Memoirs of Pascal Paoli
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1923, this book presents the complete text of James Boswell's 1768 work, The Journal of a Tour to Corsica. An editorial introduction is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Corsica, travel writing and the works of Boswell.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Note on the text; The journal of a tour to Corsica.
£22.99
Cambridge University Press The Last of the Arctic Voyages Volume 1 Being a Narrative of the Expedition in HMS EMAssistanceEM under the Library Collection Polar Exploration
Book SynopsisWhen the experienced Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786â1847) was put in command of an expedition in 1845 to search for the elusive North-West Passage he had the backing of the Admiralty and was equipped with two specially-adapted ships and a three-year supply of provisions. Franklin was last seen by whalers in Baffin Bay in July 1845. When the expedition failed to return in 1848, enormous resources were mobilised to try to discover its fate. In 1852 H.M.S. 'Assistance' was sent to lead another search mission. It was captained by Edward Belcher (1799â1877), who eventually took the decision to abandon four ships in the pack-ice. He recounts his unsuccessful adventure, defending his actions against critics, in this illustrated two-volume book, first published in 1855, which also includes scientific contributions. Volume 1 describes Belcher's outward journey, Arctic animals such as walruses and whales, and the effects of extreme cold.Table of ContentsPreface; Preliminary; 1. At sea; 2. Anchor at Upernavik; 3. Native dogs; 4. Frozen in; 5. Retreat; 6. The 'Assistance'; 7. Transit telescope; 8. Short days; 9. Rise of temperature; 10. The cairn; 11. Inconvenient elevation; 12. Hamilton Depot; 13. Open water; 14. First symptom of winter.
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Cambridge University Press The Last of the Arctic Voyages Volume 2 Being a Narrative of the Expedition in HMS Assistance Being a Narrative of the Expedition in HMS Library Collection Polar Exploration
Book SynopsisWhen the experienced Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786â1847) was put in command of an expedition in 1845 to search for the elusive North-West Passage he had the backing of the Admiralty and was equipped with two specially-adapted ships and a three-year supply of provisions. Franklin was last seen by whalers in Baffin Bay in July 1845. When the expedition failed to return in 1848, enormous resources were mobilised to try to discover its fate. In 1852 H.M.S. 'Assistance' was sent to lead another search mission. It was captained by Edward Belcher (1799â1877), who recounts his unsuccessful adventure in this illustrated two-volume book, first published in 1855. Volume 2 covers, and attempts to justify, Belcher's much-criticised decision to abandon four ships in the pack-ice. It also contains Belcher's views on reports of cannibalism among Franklin's crew, as well as scientific observations and a fascinating list of provisions.Table of Contents1. Return of Osborn; 2. Moor in-shore; 3. Run of the ice; 4. Increase of temperature; 5. Land reached; 6. Dangers of autumn; 7. Lifting of the ship; 8. Thaw; 9. Import of instructions; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press Narrative of Travels in Europe Asia and Africa in the Seventeenth Century Volume 2 Cambridge Library Collection Travel Europe
Book SynopsisThis two-volume English translation of part of a longer narrative by the Ottoman Evliya Çelebi (1611c.1680) was published in 1834. It offers a fascinating assemblage of topics varying from the fountains of Istanbul to a journey to Georgia. Volume 2 includes Çelebi's description of the 1645 siege of Canea.Table of Contents1. Journey to Brussa; 2. Journey to Nicomedia; 3. Journey to Batum and Trebisonde; 4. Journey to Georgia and Mingrelia; 5. Journey to Azak (Assov.); 6. Journey to Crimea; 7. Expedition against Malta in the year 1055 (1645); 8. Journey to Erzerum; 9. Journey from Nakhshivan to Tabriz; 10. Journey from Tabriz to Erivan; 11. Journey to Georgia; 12. Journey to Erivan in the year 1057 (1647); 13. Journey to Baiburd, Janja, Isper, Tortum and Akchekala'a.
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Cambridge University Press Accidents of an Antiquarys Life
Book SynopsisThe archaeologist D. G. Hogarth (18621927) became the keeper of Ashmolean Museum and president of the Royal Geographical Society. This 1910 account of his travels and excavations in Turkey, Egypt, and Crete, intended for a popular audience, remains a highly readable account of the practicalities behind his intellectual career.Trade Review'Hogarth's writing is lively, conversational and charmingly self-effacing … a fascinating insight into the beginnings of his long and remarkably eventful career.' Current ArchaeologyTable of ContentsPreface; Introductory - apology of an apprentice; 1. An interlude; 2. Lycia; 3. Crete; 4. Nile fens; 5. The Satalian Gulf; 6. Cyrene; 7. Digging; 8. The Sajur; Hittite Problems and the Excavation of Carchemish (1911).
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Cambridge University Press Personal Narrative of A Pilgrimage to ElMedinah and Meccah Volume 1 ElMisr Cambridge Library Collection Travel Middle East and Asia Minor
Book SynopsisThe British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821â90) was a colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist and keen ethnologist, he worked in India during the 1840s as an interpreter and intelligence officer for General Sir Charles Napier, and published several books about his experiences in 1851â2. He first gained celebrity, however, for his adventurous 1853 trip to Mecca, under the disguise of a pilgrim, which is described in this lively three-volume publication (1855â6). Few Europeans had ever visited the Muslim holy places; one of them was John Lewis Burckhardt, whose 1829 account is also reissued in this series. Volume 1 of Burton's book describes his arrival in Egypt, the weeks he spent in Alexandria and Cairo polishing his linguistic and cultural skills, and how, at the end of Ramadan, he travelled to Suez by camel, and from there by boat to Yanbu al-Bahr.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. To Alexandria; 2. I leave Alexandria; 3. The Nile steam boat; 4. Life in the Wakálah; 5. The Ramazán; 6. The mosque; 7. Preparations to quit Cairo; 8. From Cairo to Suez; 9. Suez; 10. The pilgrim ship; 11. To Yambu; 12. The halt at Yambu; 13. From Yambu to Bir Abbas.
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Cambridge University Press Safar Nameh
Book SynopsisThis book of 'Persian Pictures' is the first published work of Gertrude Bell (18681926), the celebrated traveller, archaeologist, and Orientalist. These essays from 1894 capture a sense of delight at a mysterious land still marked by the traces of many of the great civilisations of the past.Table of Contents1. An eastern city; 2. The tower of silence; 3. In praise of gardens; 4. The king of merchants; 5. The Imam Hussein; 6. The shadow of death; 7. Dwellers in tents; 8. Three noble ladies; 9. The treasure of the king; 10. Sheikh Hassan; 11. A Persian host; 12. A stage and a half; 13. A bridle-path; 14. Two palaces; 15. The month of fasting; 16. Requiescant in pace; 17. The city of King Prusias; 18. Shops and shopkeepers; 19. A Murray of the first century; 20. Travelling companions.
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Cambridge University Press Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope
Book SynopsisAdventurous and unconventional, Lady Hester Stanhope (17761839) left England to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. This three-volume work, first published in 1846, was written by her physician Charles Meryon (17831877), who travelled with her for seven years before returning to England to complete his medical studies.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Departure from England; 2. Zante; 3. Athens; 4. Procession of the Sultan to the mosque; 5. The author goes to Brusa; 6. Departure from Constantinople; 7. The author sets out for Smyrna; 8. Reception at Alexandria; 9. The author returns to Alexandria, in company with Mr Wynne and Mr McNamara; 10. Loss of journals; 11. Departure from Jerusalem; 12. Increased illness of Yusef; 13. Preparations for leaving Acre; 14. Departure from Acre; 15. Governor's visit; 16. Dayr el Kamar; Additional note.
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Cambridge University Press Ludolph Von Suchems Description of the Holy Land and of the Way Thither
Book SynopsisVery little is known about Ludolf von Suchem, who made a journey to the Holy Land in 133641 and later described his experiences in considerable detail. This English translation, by Aubrey Stewart (18441918), of Ludolf's Latin text was published in 1895.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The Holy Land; 2. Constantinople; 3. The way by land; 4. Barbary and Pugia; 5. The Mediterranean sea; 6. The divers perils of the sea; 7. The peril called 'Gulph'; 8. The peril called 'Grup'; 9. The perils of shoals; 10. Perils by fish; 11. Divers fishes; 12. Migration of birds; 13. The voyage across the sea; 14. The island of Sicily; 15. The mount Vulcan; 16. The city of Syracuse; 17. Achaia; 18. The city of Ephesus; 19. The different isles of the sea; 20. Cyprus; 21. The vineyard of Engaddi; 22. The city of Famagusta; 23. Salamina and Nicosia; 24. The cities by the sea; 25. The glorious city of Acre; 26. The loss of the city of Acre; 27. Gaza and Azotus; 28. Mount Carmel; 29. Egypt; 30. The garden of Balsam; 31. The Christians and the ancient tombs; 32. Ancient Babylon, or Baldach; 33. The river Nile; 34. The land of Egypt; 35. The desert and Mount Sinai; 36. The wilderness of Sinai; 37. Hebron, the vale of Mambre, and Bethlehem; 38. The holy city Jerusalem; 39. The thirty pieces of silver; 40. The Mount of Olives; 41. The desert, Jericho, Sodom and Gomorrha; 42. The river Jordan; 43. Ramatha, Shiloh, Emmaus, Sichar, Samaria, and Galilee; 44. The city of Damascus; 45. The vale of Bokar, Lebanon, and Beyrout; Index.
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Cambridge University Press A Narrative of Lord Byrons Last Journey to Greece
Book SynopsisCount Pietro Gamba (180127) accompanied Byron on his mission to Greece in 1823, and was described by the poet as 'one of the most amiable, brave, and excellent young men' he had ever encountered. This eyewitness account of the mission and of Byron's death was published in 1825.Table of ContentsDedication; 1. Lord Byron's departure for Greece; 2. Arrival of Colonel Stanhope; 3. Communication from the legislative body with Lord Byron; 4. Lord Byron's visit to Anatolico; 5. News from the Morea; 6. Affray between one of Lord Byron's guard and a citizen of Missolonghi; Notes.
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