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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 The British and the Grand Tour Routledge Revivals
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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.
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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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Cambridge University Press Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh
Book SynopsisThe East India Company's resident at Baghdad, Claudius James Rich (1786/71821) travelled from 1820 in Kurdistan and beyond. An important record of the region's geography, culture and archaeology, this two-volume work was edited by his widow and published in 1836. Volume 1, containing a biographical sketch, focuses on Kurdistan.Table of ContentsNotice respecting the maps; Preface; Brief notice of the life of Mr Rich; 1. Departure from the residency; 2. Departure from Toozkhoormattee; 3. Osman Bey; 4. Conversation with the pasha; 5. Brave Russian soldier; 6. Departure from Sulimania for the mountains; 7. Entrance into Persia; 8. Leave Sinna; 9. Visit to the vali of Sinna; 10. Failure of vaccination; 11. The pasha melancholy and depressed; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official Cambridge Library Collection South Asian History Volume 2
Book SynopsisLieutenant-Colonel William Henry Sleeman (1788â1856) spent his entire career in India as an army officer and later as a magistrate and resident. He was best known for his fight to suppress the activities of 'thugs', bands of criminals who attacked, robbed and often murdered innocent travellers. By the time of the publication of this two-volume work in 1844, Sleeman had lived in India for more than thirty years. In Volume 2, Sleeman examines many issues related to governance, such as land, tax, military discipline and the justice system, and he recounts some of the extensive conversations he had with Indians on these matters. His travels in this volume takes him through Gwalior, Dholpur, Agra and Bharatpur, and the book includes plates of some of the spectacular buildings that he visits.Table of Contents1. Pindaree system. Character of the Mahratta administration. Causes of their dislike to the paramount power; 2. Dholepore, capital of the Jat chiefs of Gohud. Consequence of obstacles to the prosecution of robbers; 3. Influence of electricity on vegetation. Agra and its buildings; 4. Noor Jehan, the aunt of the Empress Noor Bahul, over whose remains the Taj is built; 5. Father Gregory's notion of the impediments to conversion in India. Inability of Europeans to speak Eastern languages; 6. Futtehpore Secree. The Emperor Akbar's pilgrimage. Birth of Jehangeer; 7. Bhurtpore. Deeg. Want of employment for the military and the educated classes under the Company's rule; 8. Goverdhun, the scene of Krishna's dalliance with the milkmaids; 9. Veracity; 10. Declining fertility of the soil. Popular notion of the cause; 11. Concentration of capital, and its effects; 12. Transit duties in India. Mode of collecting them; 13. Peasantry of India attached to no existing government. Want of trees in Upper India. Cause and consequence. Wells and groves; 14. Public spirit of the Hindoos. Tree cultivation, and suggestion for extending it; 15. Cities and towns, formed by public establishments, disappear as Sovereigns and Governors change their abodes; 16. Murder of Mr. Fraser, and execution of the Nowab Shumshoodeen; 17. Marriage of a Jât chief; 18. Collegiate endowment of Mahomedan tombs and mosques; 19. The old city of Delhi; 20. New Delhi, or Shah Jehanabad; 21. Indian police. Its defects, and their cause and remedy; 22. Rent-free tenures. Right of Government to resume such grants; 23. The station of Meerut. Atalees who dance and sing gratis for the benefit of the poor; 24. Subdivision of lands. Want of gradations of rank. Taxes; 25. Meerut. Anglo-Indian society; 26. Pilgrims in India; 27. The Begum Sumroo; 28. On the spirit of military discipline in the native army of India; 29. Invalid establishment.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Travels
Book SynopsisMarco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked caliph and the three kings, among a great many others, evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Rea
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Penguin Random House Australia Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition Penguin
Book SynopsisThe New World story of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his own wordsThis riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. In simple, straightforward prose, Cabeza de Vaca chronicles the nine-year odyssey endured by the men after a shipwreck forced them to make a westward journey on foot from present-day Florida through Louisiana and Texas into California. In thirty-eight brief chapters, Cabeza de Vaca describes the scores of natural and human obstacles they encountered as they made their way across an unknown land. Cabeza de Vaca's gripping account offers a trove of ethnographic information, including descriptions and interpretations of native cultures, making it a powerful precurso
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Random House USA Inc Travels in Alaska
Book SynopsisThe famed American adventurer, geologist, and naturalist recounts his experiences, impressions, and discoveries during four trips to Alaska between 1879 and 1890.
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WW Norton & Co Points Unknown The Greatest Adventure Writing of
Book Synopsis"A great treasure-trove of daunting human courage, frailty, and persistence in the face of the unknown."—Library JournalTrade Review"Points Unknown celebrates crampons, testosterone and the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity. I was gripped." Sara Wheeler, The Daily Telegraph - "This is a great volume, perfect for the armchair adventurer." The Sunday Times
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Lutterworth Press We Etruscans Old and New in a Forgotten Landscape
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National Geographic Kids How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis
Book SynopsisAppealing art and descriptive text bring Lewis and Clark alive for young adventurers. Carefully chosen text from Lewis and Cark's actual journals opens a fascinating window into this country's exciting history.
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The University of Alabama Press On the Trail of the Maya Explorer Tracing the
Book SynopsisIn 1839, John Lloyd Stephens and his travelling companion Frederick Catherwood ventured into the rain forest of Guatemala and braved Indian uprisings, road agents, heat and biting insects in search of the remains of the artistic and cultural civilization of the Maya.
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University of Missouri Press Mark Twain in Paradise His Voyages to Bermuda
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of Clemens's love affair with Bermuda, a depiction of a celebrated author on recurring vacations. This book sheds light on both Clemens's complex character and the topography and history of the islands. He offers insight into Bermuda's natural environment, traditional stone houses, and romantic past.Trade ReviewA superior travel book.... Bermuda (or at least Mark Twain's Bermuda) became distinct and detailed to me for the first time.... Twainians will want to read it and will talk up its virtues. - Louis Budd, author of Mark Twain: Social Philosopher
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Johns Hopkins University Press Being American in Europe 17501860
Book SynopsisHe locates an increasingly articulate and refined sense of simplicity and virtue among these visitors and a gradual disappearance of their feelings of awe and inferiority.Trade ReviewBeing American in Europe confirms and provides a new perspective on older scholarship. -- Timothy Mason Roberts Journal of American History Kilbride's book offers a lucidly written and valuable contribution to our understanding of the relationship between the United States and Europe, and the development of American identity in this period. -- Eileen Ka-May Cheng American Historical Review Kilbride has given us an impressive work of intellectual and cultural history that will prove key to understanding the creation of American identity and its sources. -- Charlene Boyer Lewis Journal of the Early Republic Daniel Kilbride's study provides much needed insight into an aspect of American history that is relatively unexplored. -- Andrew P. White Rocky Mountain Review Being American in Europe is a valuable contribution to the literature because it pulls a diverse array of travelers (many of whom are already well-known to historians in other contexts) into one analysis in order to reveal the fundamental questions of national identity that travel to Europe posed. Like the insights gained by the travelers he studies, Kilbride's book helps us better understand the United States as an emerging nation in the Atlantic world. -- Will B. Mackintosh Register of the Kentucky Historical Society The wide range of sources Kilbride has explored is a central virtue of this book... Kilbride has brought readers into wide-open conversations among earlier Americans about Europe and the United States. -- Thomas Bender Journal of Southern History With imposing feats of archival labour that do honour to the breadth of his subject, Daniel Kilbride's Being American in Europe, 1750-1860 offers new insight into the ways American identity was formed through European travel in the Antebellum Era. Countless little-known diaries and letters from ordinary travellers combine, like the tiles of a mosaic, to show patterns of response to the European encounter that are usually difficult to see. Rich in anecdote and insights into the period, Being American in Europe is a major contribution to the study of the meanings Europe has held for the United States. -- William L. Coleman Journal of Transatlantic Studies Kilbride offers useful discussions of the changing realities of travel over the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century... Kilbride should be commended for illuminating and analyzing these often obscure texts. -- Lawrence A. Peskin History A nuanced and balanced analysis... Promises to be the go-to volume for historians seeking a lively and synthetic account of U.S. overseas interactions from the colonial period to the U.S. Civil War. -- Stephen Tuffnell Reviews in American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsRoutes of Four American Travelers in EuropeIntroduction1. "English association," 1750–17832. "The blows my republican principles receive are forcible," 1783–18203. "What we Anglo-Americans understand by the significant word comfort," 1821–18504. "The manifold advantages resulting from our glorious Union," 1840s–1861ConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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National Geographic Society The Essential Lewis Clark
Book SynopsisThe celebrated journals of Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated into modern English, with nuanced observations from star author and journalist Anthony Brandt. At the start of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an unprecedented voyage of discovery. Their assignment was to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and record the geography, flora, fauna, and people they encountered along the way. This updated edition of the captains' journals combines historical insight from editor Anthony Brandt with the rich detail of Lewis and Clark's original writing, as well as archival maps and artwork. An enthralling portrait of the unspoiled West, this true-life adventure story is a window to the dawning of America--from encounters with grizzly bears to councils with tribal leaders and perilous mountain crossings. 'Because the captains don't kn
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Archaeopress Egypt and Austria XII - Egypt and the Orient: The
Book SynopsisThe 12th Egypt and Austria conference (Zagreb, 17–22 September 2018) was organised by the Egypt and Austria Society and the Faculty of the Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb. The event took place in the Croatian Institute of History (Opatička 10, Zagreb). The main theme of the conference was current research related to the interactions between Egypt and the states of the former Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire up to the middle of the 20th century. During the conference more than 39 papers were presented, of which 26 are presented in this proceedings volume.Table of ContentsEgypt and Austria – Egypt and the Orient: Current Research ; Chapter 1: Early travellers to Egypt and the Middle East ; Letters from Vienna: Richard Pococke en route to Egypt – Rachel Finnegan ; Terryfying Unreason or a Model of Toleration? Imagining Islam in Fictional Travelogues of Václav Matěj Kramerius – Lucie Storchová ; Epidemics between Europe and Egypt in a rediscovered work of Giuseppe Nizzoli – Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo & Irene Guidotti ; Chapter 2: Travellers to Egypt and the Orient in the middle and the second half of the 19th century ; Jakov Šašel: The origins of his Travelogue – Sanda Kočevar ; Carlo de Marchesetti: An Austrian botanist in the land of the pharaohs – Susanna Moser ; Prokesch-Osten jr (1837-1919) – Angela Blaschek ; The Bombardment of Alexandria 1882 in the writings of Milan Jovanović Morski – Vera Vasiljević ; Mária Fáy, the first Hungarian woman traveller and her journey to the Orient – Eszter Feró ; Chapter 3: Formation pf Egyptian collections ; The Egyptian coffin and mummy of Stephan Delhaes and other mummies from Akhmim in Hungary – Éva Liptay ; Oriental Paintings in the former Keglević Château Topol'čianky – Marta Herucová ; Aegyptiaca and an exhibition in Presburg/Pratislava in 1865 – Jozef Hudec ; Egyptology in the Varaždin area: the contribution of the Bombelles family and the Paszhtory – Varady family – Anja Kovačić ; The Egyptian collection of the Museum of Slavonia and its donors – Marina Kovač ; Chapter 4: Egypt in art/Orientalist art ; Carl Rudolf Huber and the Temptation of the East – Ernst Czerny ; Adolf Loos’s purchase in 1914: The story of Ivan Napotnik and his Egyptian woman – Vesna Kamin Kajfež ; Chapter 5: Travellers to Egypt in the first half of the 20th century ; Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin’s voyage from Križevci to Alexandria – Ivana Funda ; Fran Srećko Gundrum Oriovčanin in Luxor (4th-7th December 1902): The search for key comparative narratives in his diary – Mladen Tomorad ; Gundrum’s description of the construction and grand opening of the Old Aswan Dam in 1902 – Margareta Filipović-Srhoj ; From Habsburg Galicia to the Ottoman Egypt. Impressions from A voyage to Egypt by Stanisław Trzeciak (1904) – Grzegorz First ; Karel Pečnik: A Slovenian physician in Egypt – Jaro Lajovic ; Ivan Meštrović’s correspondence to Ruža Meštrović from Egypt and the Middle East in 1927: The artist’s fascination with Egypt reflected in his picture postcards to Ruža Meštrović – Sabina Kaštelančić ; Chapter 6: Egyptian revival and Egyptomania ; A case of modern-day burialS in ancient Egyptian sarcophagi – Tomislav Kajfež ; Egyptianising Funerary Architecture in Budapest – Andrea Fullér ; Images of Egypt in Zagreb from the 19th and 20th centuries: buildings, monuments, street furniture – Marina Bagarić ; Ivan Meštrović – creating art for eternity: Meštrović’s fascination with ancient Egypt as illustrated in the family mausoleum in Otavice – Zorana Jurić Šabić ; Chapter 7: Other studies ; A new approach to old sound recordings from Morocco – Clemens Gütl
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University of Alaska Press The First Russian Voyage Around the World: The
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Harrassowitz Auf Segelbeflugelten Schiffen Das Meer Befahren:
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Africa Magna Verlag If Women Have Courage: Among Shepherds, Sheiks,
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Gerlach Press The Way to Isfahan: And Passing Through Muscat -
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Gerlach Press The Holy Land: Travels Through Galilee to
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NIAS Press In the Land of Pagodas: A Classic Account of
Book SynopsisChina, 1898: a time of war, intrigue and growing foreign power. Onto the scene comes a Parisian fugitive with a gifted pen and a journalist's eye. Alfred Raquez drifts from Indochina to Hong Kong, Macao and Canton before falling in with a group of shady entrepreneurs in Shanghai with interests far up the Yuan River. In short order, Raquez sets off on a rollicking voyage into the heart of the lawless Miao-country, pen and camera in hand. The result is a richly recorded adventure told from the perspective of a wandering French boulevardier. In the Land of Pagodas takes readers on a picaresque journey that is as much "Moulin Rouge" as it is "Heart of Darkness", and in its narration reveals much about the derring-do and startling hypocrisy of the colonial enterprise.
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