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| Godsall, Jon R. “FACT AND FICTION IN RICHARD BURTON'S PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO EL-MEDINAH AND MECCAH (1855-6).” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland [Great Britain] 1993 3(3): 331-351.
Abstract: The contemporary success of British explorer and scholar Richard Burton's The Pilgrimage (1855-56) obscures the fact that the expedition to Medina and Mecca he described was in large degree a failure. Burton later kept quiet about his plans for exploration of the Arabian peninsula and was not honest in dealing with his sponsors, the Royal Geographical Society and the East India Company. His later accounts of his activities in 1853-54 are inaccurate, and his attitude shows that geographical knowledge was less important to him than his own fame and glory. * Period: 1853-56. Kohl, Johann Georg; Reisser, Craig T., transl. “YESTERDAY'S CITY.” Chicago History 1993 22(1): 62-72. Abstract: An excerpt from German travel writer Johann Georg Kohl's book Reisen im Nordwesten der Vereinigten Staaten [Travels in the United States Northwest] (1855) describes the development of the city of Chicago. * Period: 1855. Dew, Stephen H. “ALL THAT GLITTERS: ASSAYING S. H. LOGAN'S "TRIP TO THE GOLD FIELDS."“ Chronicles of Oklahoma 1993 71(3): 244-275. Abstract: Attempts to identify the author of 24 articles that purportedly transcribed a journal kept by a member of Captain Randolph B. Marcy's caravan of goldseekers as it crossed the Indian Territory in 1849. The articles, which appeared serially during 1941 in the Arkansas Gazette Sunday Magazine, were labeled "Trip to the Gold Fields." They were a blatant fraud concocted by editor Stephen Hackney Logan, not an original journal kept by A. D. King. Comparative investigation of Marcy's account of the 1849 transcontinental expedition demonstrates numerous inaccuracies in the Logan account. * Period: 1849. Curtis, Bruce. “MAPPING THE SOCIAL: NOTES FROM JACOB KEEFER'S EDUCATIONAL TOURS, 1845.” Journal of Canadian Studies [Canada] 1993 28(2): 51-68. Abstract: In 1845, District Superintendent of Education Jacob Keefer toured the Niagara District of Ontario (then Canada West), visiting numerous towns and schools to facilitate the preparation of his annual report. His notes provide not only a record of his travels but also a snapshot of nascent bureaucratic practices in the mid-19th century. * Period: 1845. Stevenson, Winona. “BEGGARS, CHICKABOBBOOAGS, AND PRISONS: PAXOCHE (IOWAY) VIEWS OF ENGLISH SOCIETY, 1844-45.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1993 17(4): 1-23. Abstract: Reconstructs aspects of Paxoche (Ioway) North American Plains Indian cultural philosophy by analyzing their translated commentaries about English society during an 1844-45 Ioway tour of England. Admittedly George Catlin, the artist and publisher of the Ioway remarks, may have included his own criticisms of English society, but other evidence supports Catlin's reports. The Ioway were critical of British class structure and selfishness, and were outraged by the number of chickabobbooags (gin mills) they counted. They found English values lacking compared to their society's characteristics. Clearly, the Ioway had not succumbed to demoralization after more than a century of colonialism. * Period: 1844-45. Cannon, Brian Q. “JOHN C. CALHOUN, JR., MEETS THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH SHORTLY BEFORE THE DEPARTURE FOR CARTHAGE.” Brigham Young University Studies 1993 33(4): 772-780. Abstract: Prints a letter from John C. Calhoun, Jr., to his brother James describing a June 1844 Mississippi River steamboat trip, including a stop at Nauvoo, Illinois, where he met with Mormon prophet Joseph Smith. Smith, who had earlier corresponded with presidential hopeful John C. Calhoun, Sr., had received a dispatch from Governor Thomas Ford that afternoon requesting that he present himself for arrest at Carthage, where he was murdered by a mob a few days later. Smith left a meeting discussing the summons to see Calhoun and "gave us a full description of his difficulties, and also an exposition of his faith." The letter also describes the scenery, wildlife, and Indians Calhoun encountered in Iowa Territory after leaving Nauvoo. * Period: 1844. Harding, Brian and Harding, Ellen. “LOOKING FORWARD; LOOKING BACKWARD: AMERICAN AND CANADIAN SCENERY IN THE 1830S.” British Journal of Canadian Studies [Great Britain] 1993 8(2): 163-179. Abstract: Examines the collaborative works of British artist William Henry Bartlett and American travel litterateur Nathaniel Parker Willis by discussing American Scenery: Or, Land, Lake, and River. Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature (1840) and Canadian Scenery (1842), both with text by Willis and illustrations by Bartlett. A Knickerbocker writer influenced by Washington Irving's Sketch Book (1819-20), Willis conceived the idea for a literate American travelogue that would appeal to the 19th-century sensibilities of a new leisure class. Bartlett's illustrations of Canada evoke a land undisturbed by the enterprising entrepreneurial spirit of America and resemble renderings of a European past. * Period: 1836-40. Fischer, Steven Roger. “THE CALLING OF H.M.S. SERINGAPATAM AT RAPANUI (EASTER ISLAND) ON 6 MARCH 1830.” Pacific Studies 1993 16(1): 67-84. Abstract: Aids in the understanding of early postcontact Rapanui culture by documenting and discussing two separate accounts of the Seringapatam's visit to Easter Island. The first chronicle is excerpted from Captain William Waldegrave's official report to the Admiralty in London. The second comes from the journal of Lieutenant John Orlebar, published in London in 1833. Each document's version of Rapanui society, physical culture, and relations with outsiders is compared with accounts of other visits made to the island. * Period: 1830. Grizzard, Frank Edgar, Jr. “"THREE GRAND & INTERESTING OBJECTS": AN 1828 VISIT TO MONTICELLO, THE UNIVERSITY, AND MONTPELIER.” Magazine of Albemarle County History 1993 51: 114-130. Abstract: Margaret Bayard Smith, the wife of a prominent political journalist and herself an insightful author, in 1828 traveled with her husband from Washington, D.C., to Albemarle County, Virginia, and visited the University of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, where she was entertained by the late president's daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph. The Smiths then moved on to Orange County to visit with James Madison at his home, Montpelier. Smith's letters, reprinted with annotations, describe her social activities during her travel. * Period: 1828. Armstrong, Elizabeth. “AN ENGLISHMAN AT THE 1823 COSTER CELEBRATIONS IN HAARLEM.” Library [Great Britain] 1993 15(1): 47-51. Abstract: Oxford don James Endell Tyler (1789-1851) and a friend, Henry Wilson, were in the Netherlands in July of 1823 when they learned of a huge celebration to be held in Haarlem on 10 July to honor Laurens Janszoon Coster (ca. 1390-1440) as the inventor of printing. Tyler and Wilson attended the festivities, and Tyler recorded his observations in a letter of 6 August to an associate. The letter was eventually printed in a small manuscript book, Some Few Memoirs of a Tour of Holland in July 1823. * Period: 1823. Farris, Glenn, ed., transl. “VISIT OF THE RUSSIAN WARSHIP APOLLO TO CALIFORNIA IN 1822-1823.” Southern California Quarterly 1993 75(1): 1-13. Abstract: Reprints a report by Achille Schabelski, interpreter on the Russian warship Apollo, of the ship's visit to California in 1822-23. Schabelski commented negatively on the military defenses, economic conditions, and isolation of the California presidios, missions, and settlements. He noted that the new government in Mexico would have to revitalize the province's government and institute major reforms for the betterment of the region. * Period: 1822-23. Rooney, Patrick J.; Szebenyi, Bela; and Balint, Geza P. “RICHARD BRIGHT'S TRAVELS FROM VIENNA THROUGH LOWER HUNGARY: A GLIMPSE OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History [Canada] 1993 10(1): 87-96. Abstract: Analyzes the medical information provided by English physician Richard Bright (1789-1858) in his book Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary, with Some Remarks on the State of Vienna during the Congress in the Year 1814 (1818). Bright describes the peasants' lack of hygiene, the public baths in Buda, and his visits to four hospitals, including Vienna's General Hospital and the University Hospital of Pest. * Period: 1812-15. VanRijssen, W. J. J.; Wilson, M. L.; and VanHove, T. Toussaint. “ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE PLACE DEPICTED IN FOLIO 425 OF THE ICONES PLANTARUM ET ANIMALIUM.” Africana Notes and News [South Africa] 1993 30(5): 192-195. Abstract: Corrects errors regarding a toponym in the authors' previous article (see entry 45A:5139) on the late 18th-century account of travels in the Cape Colony by Robert Jacob Gordon (1743-95) entitled Icones Plantarum et Animalium (which is held by the Africana Museum in Johannesburg). * Period: 1779. Wechselblatt, Martin. “FINDING MR. BOSWELL: RHETORICAL AUTHORITY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN JOHNSON'S A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.” ELH (English Literary History) 1993 60(1): 117-148. Abstract: In 1773 Samuel Johnson and his memoirist James Boswell conducted a tour of the Hebrides; in the same year Johnson published A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland. Basically, Johnson described Scottish life as being desperate and squalid and contended that these conditions were self-inflicted by the Scots who allowed their society to collapse economically and socially. While Johnson's critique may be challenged, his account of the trip sustains its value as a literary construct in which the forms of metaphor, voice, and narrative convention are exercised with precision. * Period: 1773. Burrowes, Carl Patrick. “SOME STRUCTURES OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN PRE-LIBERIAN COASTAL SOCIETIES, 1660-1747.” Liberian Studies Journal 1993 18(2): 231-244. Abstract: Applies Annales historiography to the Liberian coast of West Africa. Demographic and geohistorical conditions are analyzed using data from the accounts of European visitors. These records reveal house types, number of persons per dwelling, forms of marriage, number of dwellings per settlement, and the spatial distribution of settlements. Three sub-regions are identified: Cape Mount, Cape Mesurado, and the Kwa coast. The study confirms the usefulness and suitability of the Annales approach. * Period: 1660-1747. Hair, P. E. H. “ON EDITING BARBOT.” History in Africa 1993 20: 53-59. Abstract: Relying on his two voyages to West Africa and others by relatives and friends, Jean Barbot wrote his account of "Guinea" in French between 1683 and 1688. Barbot, a French Huguenot from the Ile de Re near La Rochelle, went into exile in 1685 and, before his death in 1712, prepared an English version of his description of West Africa, which appeared only in 1732. For this edition, Barbot relied on material from forty to fifty printed sources, and the 1732 English publication differed greatly from his original account. A two volume edition of Barbot, Barbot on Guinea: The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa, edited by P. E. H. Hair, Adam Jones, and Robin Law (1992), eliminates the wholly derived passages found in the 1732 work and includes the original portions of the 1680's French edition. * Period: 1680-1732. Bowers, Terence N. “GREAT BRITAIN IMAGINED: NATION, CITIZEN, AND CLASS IN DEFOE'S TOUR THRO' THE WHOLE ISLAND OF GREAT BRITAIN.” Prose Studies [Great Britain] 1993 16(3): 148-178. Abstract: Explores the cultural factors that made Daniel Defoe's Tour (1724-26) one of the most popular books of its kind, describing it as a sophisticated text that employed numerous literary techniques to recreate reality. * Period: 1720's. Lacey, Barbara E. “SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT'S JOURNEY ACROSS CONNECTICUT, 1704.” Connecticut History 1993 34(1): 1-17. Abstract: Sarah Kemble Knight kept a diary of her journey on horseback from Boston to New York and back, providing information on such matters as roads, accommodations, and the social and cultural life of colonial Connecticut. * Period: 1704. Betts, Raymond F. “"SWEET MEDITATION THROUGH THIS PLEASANT COUNTRY": FOREIGN APPRAISALS OF THE LANDSCAPE OF KENTUCKY IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE COMMONWEALTH.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 1992 90(1): 26-44. Abstract: European visitors to Kentucky in its early years as a state found it a peaceful and pleasant area to contemplate. The most severe commentary of the early travelers was reserved for the rough people in contrast to the gentleness of the land. Attitudes changed with the coming of the railroad and the opening of the real West. Earlier hopeful expressions of confidence in the land as an inexhaustible source of wealth changed by the end of the 19th century, when poverty became apparent on much of that land. * Period: ca 1790-1900. Thomas, Jack Ray. “LATIN AMERICAN VIEWS OF UNITED STATES POLITICS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.” Journal of the Early Republic 1992 12(3): 357-380. Abstract: During the 19th century, many well-educated and well-traveled Latin Americans visited the United States and wrote about their experiences and perceptions. A common source of interest to them was the concept of democracy and its practical application in the United States. They were generally impressed with decentralized political arrangements and widespread private land ownership, which contrasted with their own countries' histories of dictatorships and large estate holdings by the wealthy few. * Period: 19c. Ryall, Anka. “DOMESTICATING GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATION: FREDRIKA BREMER'S AMERICAN TRAVEL NARRATIVE.” American Studies in Scandinavia [Denmark] 1992 24(1): 24-36. Abstract: From 1849 to 1851 Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer traveled in Cuba and the United States and wrote an account of her observations that was published in several languages, including English. Writing in the genre of a travel account and as a woman of the times, she directed her attention more toward domestic observations rather than political or social issues. She did so from the conviction that domestic and family life were more informative than knowledge of political and social leaders. Moreover, Bremer wrote from an experiential point of view based on direct observation rather than systematic research. * Period: 1849-54. Hammerman, Gay. “CONSTANTINE OSBORNE PERKINS: HIS FAITH AND FAMILY, HIS JOURNEY AND JOURNAL.” Bulletin of the Fluvanna County Historical Society 1992 (54): 1-46. Abstract: Introduces and prints excerpts from Fluvanna County, Virginia, resident Constantine Osborne Perkins's (b. 1817) journal, detailing his journey in 1846 from Virginia to Houston, Texas. The journal records the beliefs and concerns of a young man of the 19th century. * Period: 1846-51. Gopal, Surendra. “A RUSSIAN TRAVELLER IN INDIA IN THE 1840'S.” Indica [India] 1992 29(1): 37-50. Abstract: Prince A. D. Saltykov of Russia traveled twice to India between 1841 and 1846 and wrote of his travels in a series of letters that he published in 1850 as Pis'ma ob Indii [Letters about India]. A diplomat and an artist, Saltykov recorded his observations about social customs and conditions and incidents in his travels in places as diverse as Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Agra, and Punjab. The book provides valuable information about India in the 1840's. * Period: 1841-46. Warren, Jack D., ed. “A YOUNG WOMAN'S VISION OF PENNSYLVANIA: THE DIARY OF MARY ANN CORWIN, 1842-1843.” Pittsburgh History 1992 75(2): 90-109. Abstract: Introduces and transcribes the diary Mary Ann Corwin (1819-99) kept of her journey from New Jersey through Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1842-43, and uses it to show the significance of 19th-century American pleasure travel and the descriptive nature of travelers' writings. * Period: 1842-43. Andrews, Alan E. J. “STRZELECKI'S ROUTE 1840 FROM THE MURRAY RIVER TO MELBOURNE.” Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society [Australia] 1992 77(4): 50-62. Abstract: The route of Paul Strzelecki's 1840 mapping expedition in southern Australia has never been, and may never be, identified in detail. In his own report of the expedition (1845) he probably made corrections to make the route agree with longitudinal readings he was unable to make. The map that was published with the report included information from other sources that contradicted his account. Even so, these two sources are probably closer to the truth than later representations. * Period: 1840. Jansma, Jerome and Jansma, Harriet H. “ENGELMANN REVISITS ARKANSAS, THE NEW ESTATE.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1992 51(4): 328-356. Abstract: Translates two letters written in German in March 1837 by Dr. George Engelmann and published in Das Westland. Engelmann was traveling with a companion from St. Louis to Little Rock and describes the weather, road conditions, towns, natural features, flora and fauna, and various settlers he met. * Period: 1837. Peterson, Richard H.; Churchill, Charles B. (reply). “POINT/COUNTERPOINT: RICHARD HENRY DANA'S CALIFORNIANS: AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW.” Californians 1992 10(1): 44-46. Abstract: Richard Henry Dana's Two Years before the Mast recounted his experiences as a sailor during the mid-1830's, including descriptions of California during 1835-36. Though he was critical of Hispanics living in California, as pointed out by Charles B. Churchill in The Limits of Empathy: Richard Henry Dana in California (1992), Dana found much to admire in the Californios. A reply by Churchill explains his interpretations of Dana's attitudes toward the Californios. * Period: 1835-36. Fierro, Maria Isabel. “THE CONTACT WITH THE WEST OF A MAURITANIAN TRAVELLER: THE RIHLA OF IBN UWAYR AL-JANNA (1245/1829-1250/1834).” Maghreb Review [Great Britain] 1992 17(1-2): 103-123. Abstract: Examines the travels and pilgrimage to Mecca in 1829-34 of Mauritanian scholar and Sufi Ibn uwayr al-Janna (ca.1787-1848), based on his record of the journey (the Rihla) and contemporary manuscripts. Particular emphasis is placed on his contact with Europeans and Christians, his relations with the English and with women, and his attitude toward Spain, books, and learning, all of which illuminate the contacts between Muslim travelers and Europe and the power of Christians and Europeans in Islamic countries during this period. * Period: ca 1829-34. Forster, Honore. “THE MARIANA ISLANDS, 1830-1831: FROM THE JOURNAL OF JOHN LYELL ON THE WHALESHIP RANGER.” ISLA: A Journal of Micronesian Studies [Guam] 1992 1(2): 355-387. Abstract: Places the observations of a Scottish doctor, John Lyell, on some of the Mariana Islands, principally Guam, in the context of contemporary developments in the region and assesses the value of these observations. The main body of the text is from Lyell's previously unpublished shipboard journal, which is held by the Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland. He visited the area in 1830 and 1831 while serving as surgeon on the London-based whaleship Ranger. * Period: 1830-31. Kotzageorgi, Xanthippi. “BRITISH TRAVELLERS IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY ON GREECE AND THE GREEKS.” Balkan Studies [Greece] 1992 33(2): 209-221. Abstract: Discusses the image of Greece and the Greeks in selected writings by early-19th-century British travelers. This image, either introduced or reproduced by these travelers, gave rise to three stereotypes: Greece as an integral part of the Orient - exotic, uncivilized, and barbarous; Greece as the unworthy heir of the glorious classical past; and Greece as a potential area for colonization. The impact of these stereotypes was important; they helped form the wider public opinion on Greece and at times even influenced British policymaking on matters related to Greece. * Period: ca 1800-20. Grundy, Isobel. “"THE BARBAROUS CHARACTER WE GIVE THEM": WHITE WOMEN TRAVELLERS REPORT ON OTHER RACES.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 1992 22: 73-86. Abstract: Examines reports on Turkey and India by late 18th- and early 19th-century British women travelers, noting their discussions of social customs, material culture, gender, and race. Their descriptions were often incorporated into novels and reflected their prejudices "when faced by the Other." The author analyzes the writings of Eliza Fay, Jemima Kindersley, and Mary Wortley Montagu, which reveal a "distinctively female view of the interactions of gender, race and power." * Period: 1770's-1810's. Dyer, Colin. “THE EUROPEANS AS EXPERIENCED BY TRAVELLERS IN 1792.” Journal of European Studies [Great Britain] 1992 22(1): 39-70. Abstract: Uses contemporary accounts by Europeans traveling to other European countries, primarily to and from England, France, and Italy, to reconstruct aspects of life in late 18th-century Europe. Life among the poor, alleged national character traits, and public attitudes toward monarchs receive particularly detailed treatment. * Period: 1763-1815. Wright, Michael. “SIAMESE RELIGIOUS MISSION TO LANKA VIA INDIA, 1815 A.D.” Indica [India] 1992 29(2): 137-145. Abstract: Continued from a previous article in Indica 1992 29(1). Continues the presentation of a modern English translation of the text of a journal describing a journey to Ceylon (Lanka) made by eight Thai monks and lay supporters. Describes the journey, the relationship of the guides to their charges, and the dealings of the captain with different people and groups encountered along the way. * Period: 1815. Hill, Matthew H. “TOWARDS A CHRONOLOGY OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF FRANCIS MOORE'S TRAVELS INTO THE INLAND PARTS OF AFRICA. . . .” History in Africa 1992 19: 353-368. Abstract: As an employee of the Royal African Company, Francis Moore spent the period November 1730 to May 1735 at trade posts along the Gambia River. Based on his personal and official journals from his Gambian service, Moore provided a useful description of the area and its trade in slaves, gold, and ivory with the publication of his Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa in 1738. Numerous variants of this book, some in English and others in French, German, Dutch, and Danish reworked and rephrased portions of Moore's Travels. Later authors utilized these variants of Moore's original book, which they further modified or mutilated for inclusion in their own works. * Period: 18c. Gill, Harold B., Jr. and Curtis, George M., III. “A VIRGINIAN'S FIRST VIEWS OF KENTUCKY: DAVID MEADE TO JOSEPH PRENTIS, AUGUST 14, 1796.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 1992 90(2): 117-139. Abstract: David Meade (1744-1829) left his home in Virginia and journeyed to lands purchased in Kentucky in 1796. In the manuscript of a 13-page letter, printed here, Meade wrote of his experiences to a close friend back in Williamsburg, Judge Joseph Prentis. Working from a diary kept during the journey, Meade describes the landscape, the homesteads, his own plans for building on his 320-acre tract, and the future of the Kentucky frontier. Never returning to Virginia, Meade and his wife lived on their new land until their deaths in 1828 and 1829. * Period: 1796. Winsnes, Selena Axelrod. “P. E. ISERT IN GERMAN, FRENCH, AND ENGLISH: A COMPARISON OF TRANSLATIONS.” History in Africa 1992 19: 401-410. Abstract: The original edition of Paul Erdmann Isert's Reise nach Guinea und den Caribaischen Inseln in Columbien was published in Copenhagen in 1788. Within a few years, it was republished in German, and translations into French, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages appeared. The French edition, Voyages en Guinee (1793), contained over five hundred errors, omissions, additions, and variations in style from the German text. Isert's French translator sought to improve on the author's writing style, discarded his sense of irony, and elaborated frequently on his information. By doing so, the Paris edition of Isert inadvertently altered the West African and other material itself. * Period: 1788-93. David, Andrew, ed. “JOHN SHERRIFF ON THE COLUMBIA, 1792: AN ACCOUNT OF WILLIAM BROUGHTON'S EXPLORATION OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 1992 83(2): 53-59. Download 0.71 Mb. Share with your friends:
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