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| Datta, Karubaki. “A PORTUGUESE TRAVEL ACCOUNT OF 18TH CENTURY BENGAL.” Quarterly Review of Historical Studies [India] 1989 29(1): 48-57.
Abstract: Continued from a previous article (see entry 42A:9757). Reprints portions of the diary of Paulo Texeiro, a Portuguese surgeon, who traveled through Bengal and eastern India in 1737. Episodes recounted here include two cases of suttee (sati) and a medical call to the Raja of Raipur. * Period: 1737. Black, Jeremy. “GENOA IN 1731.” Italian Quarterly 1989 30(118): 39-53. Abstract: Part of a manuscript journal by a British visitor, John Swinton (1703-77), to Genoa, 3 January to 12 February 1731, describing daily life and various notable individuals. * Period: 1731. Black, Jeremy. “FRANCE IN 1730: A TOURIST'S ACCOUNT.” Francia [West Germany] 1989 16(2): 39-59. Abstract: A hitherto unpublished manuscript by William Mildmay, ultimately Commissioner to France, describing his journey through that country in 1730. The account, in the form of a letter, is particularly valuable because it was not intended for publication and thus provides a candid description. His route through France was fairly conventional (Calais-Chantilly-Paris-Rhone Valley-Marseilles), although Mildmay did also travel to Dunkirk. His account reflected anti-Catholic sentiments as well as ambivalence toward the fading Anglo-French alliance. * Period: 1730. Christopher, Robert. “NARRATORS OF THE ARCTIC: IMAGES AND MOVEMENTS IN NORTHLAND NARRATIVES.” American Review of Canadian Studies 1988 18(3): 259-269. Abstract: Since the 17th century, exploration of the North American Arctic has been undertaken for many reasons. Tracing the evolution of these motivations reveals a corresponding evolution in the form in which arctic experiences have been related. Starting with official reports and moving through field journals, sagas of ordeal, and novels of white explorers in hostile environments and recently moving into autobiographical accounts of the indigenous Inuit people, the progression of these forms indicates that the next form to emerge from this region will be works of fiction drawn entirely from Inuit themes and images. * Period: 17c-20c. Boldizar, Ivan. “FINDING AMERICA? THE HUNGARIAN IMAGE OF AMERICA OVER A CENTURY.” European Contributions to American Studies [Netherlands] 1988 14: 16-28. Abstract: In 1966 Ivan Boldizar was the first Hungarian writer to visit the United States since the start of the Cold War. He recalls his own impressions of America at different times, and the impressions of other Hungarian visitors since 1834. The image of America relayed to Hungary by visitors and different waves of immigrants is extremely favorable, but many Americans tend to regard any Hungarian criticism as ideologically dictated. * Period: 1834-1986. Quinn, Judith. “TRAVERSING THE LANDSCAPE IN FEDERAL DELAWARE.” Delaware History 1988 23(1): 39-61. Abstract: Retraces the routes and summarizes the observations of late-18th- and early-19th-century travelers in Delaware, arguing that the travelers' descriptions of local landscape reflect their attitudes toward nature and toward transportation. Their travel accounts mention such information as the condition of roads, accommodations, local flora and fauna, and the frontier (especially the Great Cypress Swamp). * Period: 18c-19c. Skelly, Joseph Morrison. “IRISH TRAVELERS IN AMERICA, 1730-1880.” Eire-Ireland 1988 23(2): 3-24. Abstract: The value of the literature created by 22 Irish travelers during 1730-1880 has been generally overlooked. Their insights are superficial compared to the depth of understanding of America realized by some other foreign travelers, but the contributions by the Irish are still important. * Period: 1730-1880. Donaldson, Gary A. “ANTEBELLUM CRITICISM: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED IN MISSISSIPPI, 1853-1854.” Journal of Mississippi History 1988 50(4): 317-333. Abstract: Frederick Law Olmsted's tours of the South in 1853 and 1854 included two visits to Mississippi as well as several stopovers in towns along the Mississippi River. His letters to New York newspapers and his later books and personal letters contain few favorable comments on the people, economy, society and culture of the state. The author reports on Olmsted's views of the conditions he observed in Mississippi, including slavery, education, and the life of the planter aristocrat as well as the yeoman farmer. Olmsted's negative opinions about Mississippi and the South contributed significantly to the Northern viewpoint and understanding of the region before the Civil War. * Period: 1853-54. Cochran, Robert. “HANGED BY HIS FRIENDS: THE IMAGE OF ARKANSAS IN EARLY TRAVELLERS' REPORTS.” European Contributions to American Studies [Netherlands] 1988 14: 191-198. Abstract: Visitors to Arkansas in the first half of the 19th century recorded very negative impressions. Among them were English botanist Thomas Nuttall, English geologist George W. Featherstonhaugh, and American lead mining engineer Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. All recorded their disgust at the prevalence of violence, gambling, drinking, unsanitary conditions, and the lack of education and religion. These records give some foundation to the caricatures of Arkansas found in 19th-century fiction. A more favorable but atypical impression has been left by the German hunter and adventurer, Friedrich Gerstacker, who lived in Arkansas between 1838 and 1842; he praised the people of the state for their hospitality, bravery, and resourcefulness. * Period: 1818-44. Bolling, Blair; Shepard, E. Lee, ed. “"TRIP TO THE VIRGINIA SPRING": AN EXTRACT FROM THE DIARY OF BLAIR BOLLING, 1838.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1988 96(2): 193-212. Abstract: In August 1838, Blair Bolling, a captain in the Richmond public guard, traveled to White Sulphur Springs in western Virginia. He recorded the details of that vacation in his diary. Bolling suggested that wealthy families from the South and the nation flocked to western Virginia to partake of the healing waters at the springs and to mingle with their peers in idyllic mountain settings. Bolling enjoyed his trip, but he admitted that crowded hotels and rigorous stagecoach rides detracted from the enterprise. * Period: 1838. Brown, Wallace. “FIRST IMPRESSIONS.” Beaver [Canada] 1988 68(2): 4-20. Abstract: Relates some anecdotal accounts of early travelers to Canada from the Old World. These accounts feature the elites, although plebeians are mentioned, and provide bits of odd but interesting information. Excerpts from the writings of 30 authors, including Lord Selkirk, Patrick Campbell, and Lady Hunter are included, covering such topics as blacks, Loyalists, Indians, and the environment of the New World. * Period: ca 1783-1815. Pencak, William. “IN SEARCH OF THE AMERICAN CHARACTER: FRENCH TRAVELLERS IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PENNSYLVANIA.” Pennsylvania History 1988 55(1): 2-30. Abstract: In the last three decades of the 18th century, a number of French travelers offered their impressions of America and Pennsylvania either through their correspondence or by publishing pamphlets and books. The most notable French commentator on America in those years was Michel Guillaume de Crevecoeur, who called himself Hector St.-John Crevecoeur in his Letters from an American Farmer. During the American Revolution, the impressions of most French officers were positive, but some offered sharp criticisms. French exiles who came here in the 1790's generally offered negative descriptions of what they saw. However, none of these writers doubted that the new American republic would survive, and all found Americans remarkably egalitarian and democratic. * Period: 1770-1800. Jamison, Anne MacMeans. “AN INTERESTING NARRATIVE.” Early American Life 1988 19(1): 12-15. Abstract: Recounts the difficult journey in 1789 of a woman and her family down the Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio to Natchez, Mississippi, encountering sickness, starvation, and hostile Indians enroute. * Period: 1789. Treese, Lorett. “"ENCHANTING PROSPECTS": JOHN PENN IN CENTRAL .” Pennsylvania Folklife 1988-1989 38(2): 88-95. Abstract: Describes a 1788 trip taken by John Penn, grandson of William Penn, through central Pennsylvania. Penn kept a detailed journal of his travels that provides an overview of the life and customs of the back country of Pennsylvania. * Period: 1776-89. Cross, A. G. “THE LORDS BALTIMORE IN RUSSIA.” Journal of European Studies [Great Britain] 1988 18(2): 78-91. Abstract: Assesses the journeys of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (1699-1751) and his son Frederick, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731-71) to Russia. When in 1739 the 5th Lord Baltimore, accompanied by the Italian writer Francesco Algarotti, made a trip to Russia, his impressions commanded respect at the English court, forming part of a reconciliation between Britain and Russia that had been underway since diplomatic links had been formally resumed in 1731. The journey of the 6th Lord Baltimore to St. Petersburg in 1769 is known at all only by the absurd but remarkable travel account he himself produced, in Latin verse. * Period: 1739-71. Siebert, Donald T. “HUME AS PHILOSOPHICAL TRAVELER: FROM "WILD AGREEABLE PROSPECTS" TO A "VERY PRETTY MACHINE."“ Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 1988 18: 187-198. Abstract: The journal of a trip David Hume took through continental Europe in 1748 is a vehicle for his belief that increased prosperity, through manufacturing and commerce, would make ethics unnecessary. He comments on the degree and success of human industry in the places he visits, and mentions the natural surroundings only in passing. * Period: 1748. Micklus, Robert. “THE DELIGHTFUL INSTRUCTION OF DR. ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S ITINERARIUM.” American Literature 1988 60(3): 359-384. Abstract: The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton (1715-56) is an excellent example of the travel diary, a genre that, although now largely ignored, was popular in 18th-century England and America. Hamilton's descriptions of the wild landscapes and bizarre people he encountered on a journey from Maryland to Maine in 1744 appealed to his readers' taste for the unusual. Gently ironic in his treatment of what he regarded as crude behavior among the colonials, Hamilton nevertheless clearly revealed his dismay at the breakdown of traditional class structures. * Period: 1744. Datta, Karubaki. “A PORTUGUESE TRAVEL ACCOUNT OF 18TH CENTURY BENGAL.” Quarterly Review of Historical Studies [India] 1988 28(3): 20-28. Abstract: Reprints extracts from the diary of Paulo Texeira, a chief surgeon aboard a Portuguese vessel who visited Bengal in 1737. After a brief description of the Muslim and Hindu populations in Bengal, the diary proceeds to describe a public procession of the nawab [governor], giving detailed accounts of the organization, personnel, clothing, and accoutrements of those in the parade. * Period: 1737. Cernovodeanu, Paul. “ROMANIAN TRAVELLERS IN THE U.S.A. IN THE 19TH CENTURY.” Revue Roumaine d'Histoire [Romania] 1987 26(1-2): 85-98. Abstract: "In the 19th century the Romanians received an image of the U.S.A. through three channels: access to socio-political and economic publications, translations, mainly novels and short stories, and the notes and descriptions of travellers." Romanian public opinion supported US liberalism and political liberties, notably during the revolutions of 1848, and sympathized with the Union and abolitionism during the Civil War. This article surveys evidence of Romanian travelers in the United States, whether for business, pleasure, or immigration, during the 19th century, focusing on their reactions to social conditions, political conditions, economic conditions, and the ravages of capitalism. * Period: 19c. Obeidat, Marwan A. “LURED BY THE EXOTIC LEVANT: THE MUSLIM EAST TO THE AMERICAN TRAVELLER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.” Islamic Quarterly [Great Britain] 1987 31(3): 167-193. Abstract: The reading public in 19th-century America was eager for information about strange places, and travelers responded with accounts of the Near East which, however, did not go beyond preconceived ideas. Some writers responded with an enthusiastic romanticism, emphasizing the "exotic beauty" of the lands and peoples, while others concentrated more on what they saw as the barbarism and backwardness of the inhabitants, including Turks, Arabs, and the Christians of Jerusalem. Few of the travel accounts acquainted readers with the reality of peoples about whom the writers were ignorant, thereby allowing them to perpetuate stereotypes and more or less preconceived images. Period: 19c. Alam, M. Shahid. “SOME EUROPEAN PERCEPTIONS OF JAPAN'S WORK-ETHOS IN THE TOKUGAWA ERA: A LIMITED SURVEY OF OBSERVATIONS FROM THE WEST'S FIRST ENCOUNTERS OFFERS PARALLELS TO TODAY'S.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 1987 46(2): 229-243. Abstract: During the Tokugawa Era (1603-1867), early European travelers from several nations encountered the work ethos of previously secluded Japan and recorded their observations in correspondence, articles, and books. These perceptions are categorized under three headings: effort propensity, social efficiency capital, and social rationality. Analysis of the construct thus achieved indicates that from this aspect the Japanese - in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries - appear to have been an industrious, efficient, and disciplined people. These findings offer striking parallels to the observations in our contemporary literature. We shall not know how accurate these observations are until the economic and social historians supply more exhaustive evidence based on Japanese as well as European sources, but discreet use can be made of the information we now have. * Period: 1603-1867. Adams, J. R. R. “THE MASS DISTRIBUTION OF GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE IN ULSTER, 1750-1850.” Geographical Journal [Great Britain] 1987 153(3): 383-387. Abstract: Examines the extent of geographical information available in 18th- and 19th-century Ulster, noting travel accounts published during this period and the nature of the readership. * Period: 1750-1850. Moss, Sidney P. and Moss, Carolyn. “THE JEFFERSON MISCEGENATION LEGEND IN BRITISH TRAVEL BOOKS.” Journal of the Early Republic 1987 7(3): 253-274. Abstract: British writers traveling in the United States repeated James Callender's account of Thomas Jefferson's relationship with his black slave, Sally Hemmings. It should be noted that aside from those writers, both liberals and conservatives, who despised American democracy and targeted Jefferson, there was no long-term, concerted campaign to defame Jefferson, more writers praised or ignored Jefferson than condemned him, and no one ever interviewed Sally Hemmings. Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), a notorious bestseller in both the United States and England, exaggerated the Callender account beyond reason, Tory Captain Thomas Hamilton critiqued American democracy through an acrimonious attack on Jefferson's personal life in Men and Manners in America (1833), and both novelist Captain Frederick Marryat in Diary of America (1840) and Hugh Playfair in Brother Jonathan (1840) embellished the legend. * Period: 1800-50. Myers, Scott. “A SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE ON BUENOS AIRES DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.” Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 1987 44(1): 67-79. Abstract: From the eve of independence to the mid-19th century, a succession of British visitors recorded their impressions of Buenos Aires. Though they gave an incomplete view, they were often perceptive, and their writings provide further insight into the British impact on Argentina. * Period: 1800-50. Kibler, James Everett, Jr. “THE FIRST SIMMS LETTERS: "LETTERS FROM THE WEST" (1826).” Southern Literary Journal 1987 19(2): 81-91. Abstract: Reproduces the texts of four of the earliest extant letters of novelist William Gilmore Simms, which originally appeared in the Southern literary journal The Album from March to May 1826, detailing Simms's westward boat journey from Charleston, South Carolina, to New Orleans, and river passage to Mobile, Alabama, Columbus, Mississippi, and into Choctaw Indian Territory. * Period: 1826. Tappe, Eric D. and Hope, Trevor J. “THE BALKAN TRAVEL OF PHILIP JACKSON IN 1797.” Revue Roumaine d'Histoire [Romania] 1987 26(1-2): 99-107. Abstract: Introduces Philip Jackson's 1797 diary, his travel accounts, "Journal from Bombay to England over Land," British Library, Egerton MS. 3799, and prints the portion dealing with his travel from Constantinople to Vienna as a useful supplement to (the unrelated) John Jackson's Journey from India towards England in the Year 1797 (1799). Letters and other documents confirm certain aspects of the diary accounts. The British, concerned to establish reliable land communications with India, were very interested in such journeys. The diary presents impressions of life under the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. * Period: 1797. Bradley, A. Day. “THE JOURNAL OF JOHN CHURCHMAN: A WARTIME PUBLICATION.” Quaker History 1987 76(1): 62-65. Abstract: Submitted to the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Meeting for Sufferings in April 1776, the publication of John Churchman's journal was delayed by wartime preoccupations, shortages, and inflationary costs. The journal recounts travels in the ministry throughout the Atlantic seaboard during 1737-50, and in England, Ireland, and Holland during 1750-54. By June 1779, 2,543 had been ordered, and the Meeting for Sufferings contracted with Joseph Crukshank to print 4,000 copies on paper he made, for two shillings a copy, plus two shillings for each sheepskin binding. The volume had three reprints within two years and four more 19th century reissues. * Period: 1776-79. Stevens, Paul L. “"ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL REGIONS OF THE WORLD": PAUL DES RUISSEAUX'S MEMOIRE OF THE WABASH-ILLINOIS COUNTRY IN 1777.” Indiana Magazine of History 1987 83(4): 360-379. Abstract: Describes the paucity of first-hand descriptions of the Illinois country and the Wabash River Valley from before the American Revolution, discusses the life of Quebec trader Paul Des Ruisseaux in this area, and prints Ruisseaux's account of his 1772 trip to Detroit from the garrison at Kaskaskia. The account was written in French and is presented here in French and English. Written for the British commander in Quebec, it describes the Indian and French population along the route, emphasizing their work, living standards, and political leanings. * Period: 1770-78. Blakeslee, Donald J. “JOHN ROWZEE PEYTON AND THE MYTH OF THE MOUND BUILDERS.” American Antiquity 1987 52(4): 784-792. Abstract: In 1774, John Rowzee Peyton's circulation among the Virginia colonial elite of his account of his excavation of a burial mound in Kansas while traveling from Santa Fe to St. Louis, one of the earliest archaeological reports of an Indian mound, may have contributed to the origin of the Mound Builder Myth, the idea that Indian burial mounds in the Midwest were somehow the work of some ancient advanced civilization, even possibly from the Old World. * Period: 1774. Black, Jeremy. “THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GRAND TOUR: A NEW ACCOUNT.” Lamar Journal of the Humanities 1987 13(1): 7-18. Abstract: Prints, with an introduction and notes, an English traveler's journal, possibly written by William Wendell of Yorkshire (1736-92), concerning a trip to the Low Countries and France in 1763. * Period: 1763. Passmann, Dirk F. “"MANY DIVERTING BOOKS OF HISTORY AND TRAVELS" AND A MODEST PROPOSAL.” Eighteenth-Century Ireland [Ireland] 1987 2: 167-176. Abstract: Jonathan Swift read many travel books and thematic evidence in his biting satire A Modest Proposal (1729) indicates the extent to which his reading influenced his writing. The themes of infanticide, cannibalism, and patriotism were also frequent topics in 16th and 17th-century travel literature. * Period: 1729. Wild, Peter. “A WESTERLY TREND: TRAVEL LITERATURE AND THE PURSUIT OF THE IMAGINATION.” North Dakota Quarterly 1986 54(4): 38-45. Abstract: American travel literature is similar to the American novel, since in American literature "inner journeys" are played out in landscapes and voyages - whether real or fictitious. * Period: 19c-20c. Boldizsar, Ivan. “FINDING AMERICA?: THE HUNGARIAN IMAGE OF AMERICA OVER A CENTURY.” New Hungarian Quarterly [Hungary] 1986 27(103): 60-72. Abstract: Traces the Hungarian image of the United States from the 1830's through the revolt of 1956. Sandor Boloni Farkas was the first Hungarian to write about the young American republic, in his A Journey in North America (1834). His favorable view of America as a perfect society gave way in the 20th century to a less idealized and more critical view of American life. * Period: 1834-1956. Brettell, Caroline B. “NINETEENTH CENTURY TRAVELERS' ACCOUNTS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN PEASANT.” Ethnohistory 1986 33(2): 159-173. Abstract: Evaluates the extent to which the observations of travelers about Mediterranean peasants can be a useful tool for ethnohistorical research on rural Europe. * Period: 19c. Jones, Kristine L. “NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH TRAVEL ACCOUNTS OF ARGENTINA.” Ethnohistory 1986 33(2): 195-211. Abstract: Standardized depictions of an ahistorical Indian in 19th-century travel accounts of Argentina are important ethnohistorical sources not because the accounts describe a theoretically pristine state of politically autonomous indigenous societies, but because they describe the points of articulation with expanding Western society. In the nearly 150 years between initial Jesuit missionizing attempts in the Argentine pampas in the 1740's and the final "Conquest of the Desert" in the 1880's, a major reorganization of Indian societies coincided with the expansion of European society into the grasslands. These narratives document the changing modes of interaction between "Indian" and "Western" societies, record the development of a complex intercultural frontier society, and reveal the emerging conquest ideology justifying the politics of expansion. * Period: 1740's-1880's. Riley, Glenda. “WOMEN ON THE PANAMA TRAIL TO CALIFORNIA, 1849-1869.” Pacific Historical Review 1986 55(4): 531-548. Abstract: Examines the experiences of female immigrants on the Panama route to California as described in diaries and journals of 24 women. The trail was quicker but much more treacherous than taking either the full land route or going completely by boat from the East to California. It was used from its opening in 1849 until its demise after 1869 when the transcontinental rails offered a quicker, cheaper way to reach California. Emphasis is given to the women migrants' dislike of the native Panamanians. * Period: 1849-69. Parker, Wilbur Fiske; Lavers, Norman, ed. “"THE GLORIOUS ORB OF DAY HAS ROSE": A DIARY OF THE SMOKY HILL ROUTE TO PIKE'S PEAK, 1858.” Montana 1986 36(2): 50-61. Abstract: Prints excerpts from the diary of Wilbur Fiske Parker, who on 24 October 1858 with a small group of men from Pontiac, Michigan, set out from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for the Pike's Peak gold fields. The 18-year-old Parker noted landmarks and described Indian encounters. The four-month journey was difficult, for the goldseekers began late in the fall and encountered heavy rains, flooded streams, bitter cold, and snow. They found little wood for fire, and little fodder for their animals. Parker survived the ordeal, but did not remain long in the gold fields. * Period: 1858-59. Andersson, Nils; Sander, Evelyn Therese, transl. “THE ANDERSSON PAPERS: TRAVELS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.” Pacific Historian 1986 30(3): 4-17. Abstract: Describes the experiences and impressions of Nils Andersson, a renowned Swedish botanist and natural historian of the 19th century, who led a scientific mission on board the frigate Eugenie during its 22-month voyage around the world. Andersson's letters mailed home from the countries he visited were published in the Stockholm newspaper Aftenbladet. He spent 12 days in the San Francisco Bay area, and conveyed his perceptions of the city as it was in 1852 to his readers. Portraying San Francisco as the "new Babylon of the New World," he notes the kaleidoscopic medley of language differences, the greed, and the impression of fakery all about him. * Period: 1852. Download 0.71 Mb. Share with your friends:
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