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| Pearce, George F. “WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE: A JOURNAL FROM CITY OF WASHINGTON TO PENSACOLA ON USS HORNET; RETURN ON USS JOHN ADAMS AND BY STAGECOACH FROM SAVANNAH, GEORGIA TO PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1825.” American Neptune 1984 44(4): 245-256.
Abstract: Reprints the travel journal of William Bainbridge, who with fellow naval officers Lewis Warrington and James Biddle was commissioned to go to Pensacola, Florida, and select a site for a naval base. Bainbridge's journal describes the voyage, the survey of the Pensacola area, and the return trip. Emphasis is on the weather and geography with few comments on people. * Period: 1825. Spate, O. H. K. “SPLICING THE LOG AT KEALAKEKUA BAY: JAMES KING'S SLEIGHT-OF-HAND.” Journal of Pacific History [Australia] 1984 19(1-2): 117-120. Abstract: The official chronicler of Captain James Cook's last voyage, Lieutenant James King, undoubtedly was a young man of considerable talent and charm, with his account of events long having been accepted as the standard. The author documents evidence of King "coloring" his account "to give the most favorable possible light to his own connection." While King should not be totally ignored, he must be checked carefully against other narratives. * Period: 18c. Levy, Mary Catherine and Curtin, Marguerite, transl. “THROUGH EUROPEAN EYES: JAMAICA 200 YEARS AGO.” Jamaica Journal [Jamaica] 1984-1985 17(4): 32-42. Abstract: Translates anonymous letters from a German visiting Jamaica to an unidentified cousin, originally translated into French and published as a pamphlet, Etrennes de la Jamaique dans les Indes Occidentales pour un Enfant en Europe (1783), describing cities and plantations, social conditions and daily life. * Period: 1778-79. Herndon, G. Melvin. “A YOUNG SCOTSMAN'S VISIT TO SOUTH CAROLINA, 1770-1772.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 1984 85(3): 187-194. Abstract: Scotsman James Barclay's The Voyages and Travels of James Barclay Containing Many Surprising Adventures and Interesting Narratives (1777) relates his travel from Scotland to London in early 1770 as well as his two-year tenure on a South Carolina rice plantation and his return to Scotland. Barclay worked his way to South Carolina, where he traveled and worked, keeping a record of his experiences in a journal. Barclay's descriptions of slave life are particularly interesting. * Period: 1770-77. Black, Jeremy. “AN UNPRINTED ACCOUNT OF SAVOY-PIEDMONT IN 1734.” Italian Quarterly 1984 25(96): 25-28. Abstract: Introduces, edits, and annotates a selection from the papers of Dr. Richard Pococke (in the British Library) which describe how Savoy Piedmont appeared to a well-informed British tourist. * Period: 1734. Allaman, John Lee. “WESTERN ILLINOIS IN CHARLEVOIX'S HISTORY AND JOURNAL.” Western Illinois Regional Studies 1984 7(1): 5-15. Abstract: The French historian Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix's History and General Description of New France (1866-72) and Journal of a Voyage to North America (1966), originally published in French in 1744, provide the best early description of western Illinois. * Period: 1721-22. Russo, Jean B. “NINETEENTH CENTURY ARMENIA AND ARMENIANS: AS SEEN THROUGH WESTERN EYES.” Armenian Review 1983 36(4): 27-39. Abstract: Armenians lived under drab and sometimes primitive conditions according to Western visitors, but this assessment was based on Western, not Ottoman, standards and ignored the self-effacement practiced by Armenians to avoid offending the dominant Turks. * Period: 19c. Lemny, Stefan. “ENGLAND IN THE 19TH CENTURY ROMANIAN MEMOIRS.” Anuarul Institutului de Istorie si Arheologie "A. D. Xenopol" [Romania] 1983 (Supplement 4): 209-214. Abstract: Examines Romanian memoirs that reveal the image that Romanians had of England in the 19th century. Includes travel accounts by Zenovie Hagi Pop, Petrache Poenaru, and Ion Codru Dragusanu, and works by Romanians who were engaged in winning the sympathy of British public opinion for their nationalist cause. Particularly noteworthy was the interest of Romanians in both London and the provinces. * Period: 19c. Baxley, C. Herbert. “TRAVEL IN THE 1830'S: THE DIARY OF WILLIAM MINIFIE.” Maryland Historical Magazine 1983 78(4): 287-296. Abstract: William Minifie, born in Devonshire, England, came to Baltimore in 1828 at the age of 23 and became within a short time one of the city's most prominent citizens, a member of the Maryland Academy of Science and Literature, a master architect and builder, and a professor of drawing at the Maryland Mechanical Institute. Reproduces entries from his detailed diary for trips he and his wife took to the West via Ohio and the Niagara region in 1834, and to Boston in 1835; they are replete with details of conveyances, lodgings, prices, sights, and scenes of Jacksonian America. * Period: 1828-78. Trautmann, Frederic, ed., transl. “GLIMPSES OF MICHIGAN IN 1855: THE TRAVELS OF JOHANN GEORG KOHL.” Michigan History 1983 67(4): 33-39. Abstract: Johann Georg Kohl was a 19th-century German geographer and author who travelled widely in North America. Provides a translation of an excerpt from Kohl's Reisen im Nordwestern der Vereinigten Staaten, memoirs of his observations of the Old Northwest, particularly Michigan. * Period: 1855. Trautmann, Frederic. “MISSOURI THROUGH A GERMAN'S EYES: FRANZ VON LOHER ON ST. LOUIS AND HERMANN.” Missouri Historical Review 1983 77(4): 367-394. Abstract: Franz von Loher was a lawyer, historian, professor, and archivist, and became one of 19th-century Germany's leading travel writers. Von Loher traveled in the United States in the 1840's, spending a considerable amount of time in Cincinnati, where he wrote a detailed and comprehensive study of Germans in America. Von Loher's general study of America wasn't completed until 1854 or 1855, and it included two chapters on Missouri, one on St. Louis and one on Hermann, a German "utopia" in the wilderness. Reprints excerpts from von Loher's work. * Period: 1840's-55. Paul, R. Eli, ed. “GEORGE WILKINS KENDALL, NEWSMAN, AND A PARTY OF PLEASURE SEEKERS ON THE PRAIRIE, 1851.” Nebraska History 1983 64(1): 35-80. Abstract: Series of 11 letters and "prairie sketches" (essays) written by George William Kendall during his 1851 trip on the Great Plains. At that time he was part owner and editor of the New Orleans Picayune in which these reports were published. Dismal weather and poor planning kept the party from their original intention of attending the gathering of Indians at the Fort Laramie treaty grounds. Kendall reached Fort Kearny and traveled on with an army detachment to Pawnee villages along the Platte River. Kendall and his party went to Peter Sarpy's trading post at Bellevue and then proceeded homeward to New Orleans. * Period: 1851. Moss, Sidney P. “THE AMERICAN EPISODE OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT: THE CULMINATION OF DICKENS' QUARREL WITH THE AMERICAN PRESS.” Studies in the American Renaissance 1983: 223-244. Abstract: When Charles Dickens came to America in January 1842 to prepare a travel book to be called American Notes, he was received as a conquering hero and was praised as a defender of the people and as an example of entrepreneurial success. Yet when Dickens made statements about the need for an Anglo-American copyright law, and claimed to have been robbed by American publishing houses, the press turned against him. The polemics turned quite bitter and Dickens filled American Notes and also the American chapters in Martin Chuzzlewit with anti-American prejudice. Even so, these two books returned huge profits for American publishing houses. * Period: 1840's. Trautmann, Frederic, ed. “MARYLAND THROUGH A TRAVELER'S EYES: A VISIT BY SAMUEL LUDVIGH IN 1846.” Maryland Historical Magazine 1983 78(1): 67-71. Abstract: Translates the section on Maryland from Samuel Ludvigh's travel book of 1848, Licht und Schattenbilder . . . in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika. Ludvigh was atheistic and anticlerical, a zealous rationalist, and a "tireless missionary of free thought" intent on spreading his views. He published a radical journal Die Fackel [The Torch] between 1843 and his death in 1869, and took subscriptions for it on his many lecture tours. One of his most important travel books came from his tour of the United States in 1846-47. The passages on his journey from Baltimore to Frederick to Cumberland are excellent period pieces laced with his renowned skepticism. "In America, everything that begins with prayer ends with money" and "well-behaved and obedient children are unusual in this country" are good examples. * Period: 1846-47. Trautmann, Frederic. “OHIO THROUGH A TRAVELER'S EYES: A VISIT BY SAMUEL LUDVIGH, 1846.” Old Northwest 1983 9(1): 59-76. Abstract: Contains translations from a travel book written by the Austrian Samuel Ludvigh, publisher of the radical journal Die Fachel (The Torch), describing his journey through Ohio in 1846. While Ludvigh's atheism and skepticism kept him from being objective, his accounts are valuable for their candid and insightful commentaries on the people, habits, and conditions throughout * Period: 1846. Scott, Lars Emil, ed., transl. “RENAISSANCE GENTLEMAN ARRIVES IN TEXAS: SWANTE PALM'S ACCOUNT OF HIS VOYAGE FROM SWEDEN TO THE LONE STAR REPUBLIC IN 1844.” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly 1983 34(3): 178-193. Abstract: A civil servant, journalist, and editor, Swante Palm emigrated from Sweden to Fort Bend County, Texas, to oversee the business concerns of his nephew, plantation owner Swen Magnus Swenson. Arriving in New York City in May, Palm spent the remainder of 1844 traveling in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky. Palm's account of his travels, reprinted here, includes descriptions of the sea voyage and the sights and sounds of New York City, as well as insightful and often humorous observations of Americans, their politics, and their limited knowledge of Sweden. * Period: 1844. Trautmann, Frederic. “ALABAMA THROUGH A GERMAN'S EYES: THE TRAVELS OF CLARA VON GERSTNER, 1839.” Alabama Review 1983 36(2): 129-142. Abstract: Translation of the section of Clara von Gerstner's journal which recounts her experiences and observations in Alabama, particularly a brief stay in Montgomery, a trip down the Alabama River from Montgomery to Mobile with a stop at Selma, and a visit to the convent of the Sisters of Visitation in Mobile. * Period: 1839. Durand, Kemper B. “AN EARLY VISIT TO MEMPHIS.” West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 1983 37: 88-95. Abstract: Reprints diary entries and a letter to his daughter Episcopal bishop Jackson Kemper wrote during his visit to Memphis, Tennessee, describing the city and its citizens. * Period: 1838. Brandow, James C. “THE JOURNAL OF NATHANIEL T. W. CARRINGTON: A BARBADOS PLANTER'S VISIT TO BOSTON IN 1837.” New England Quarterly 1983 56(1): 109-116. Abstract: Nathaniel T. W. Carrington, a Barbados sugar-planter, sailed with his wife and son from Bridgetown, Barbados, in May 1837. Before returning eight months later, Carrington visited parts of Canada and the Northeast. Reprints parts of Carrington's journal that relate his impressions of Boston, Massachusetts. * Period: 1837. Ingemanson, Birgitta. “THE MOVABLE MOUNTAIN: PUSHKIN'S ARARAT SCENE AND OTHER FICTION IN A JOURNEY TO ARZRUM.” Research Studies 1983 52[i.e., 51](3-4): 127-137. Abstract: Alexander Pushkin's A Journey to Arzrum (1836), a partly fictional travel account, provides evidence that the Russian author was pursuing a new literary genre that transformed the typical autobiographical narrative into a work of art with universal implications. * Period: 1820's-36. Orr, William J. and Porter, Joseph C., ed.; Orr, William J., transl. “A JOURNEY THROUGH THE NEBRASKA REGION IN 1833 AND 1834: FROM THE DIARIES OF PRINCE MAXIMILIAN OF WIED.” Nebraska History 1983 64(3): 325-453. Abstract: Prints excerpts from Alexander Philip Maximilian's diary relating events of his journey along the Missouri River. Also includes a biographical sketch and a discussion of the journals and their significance. Maximilian's relationship with Karl Bodmer, the celebrated Swiss artist who accompanied him on his North American journey, figure largely in the journal excerpts. * Period: 1833-34. McNinch, Marjorie, ed. “ELIZABETH GILPIN'S JOURNAL OF 1830.” Delaware History 1983 20(4): 223-255. Abstract: Describes the journey of a wealthy, young, Delaware woman from Wilmington to Johnstown, New York, and back, with comments on modes of water and land transportation, descriptions of the Hudson River and various towns along the way, a detailed description of New York City, accounts of recreations seen and experienced, descriptions of the scenery, and comments on life at West Point and meetings with family friends. * Period: 1830. Porter, Charlotte M. “FOLLOWING BARTRAM'S "TRACK": TITIAN RAMSAY PEALE'S FLORIDA JOURNEY.” Florida Historical Quarterly 1983 61(4): 431-444. Abstract: Titian Ramsay Peale toured parts of Florida in 1817-18 along with George Ord, William Maclure, and Thomas Say. The account of the trip is published for the first time. The orthography of the original manuscript has been retained. * Period: 1817-18. Moulton, Gary E. “THE SPECIALIZED JOURNALS OF LEWIS AND CLARK.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1983 127(3): 194-201. Abstract: In 1892 Elliott Coues examined the complete file of the Lewis and Clark reports. In addition to the regular narrative journals, he noted six special journals that contained information on weather, flora and fauna, and geography. Suggests that considerable knowledge may be gleaned from these special journals by a close examination of the material. A new edition of the journals of Lewis and Clark is now underway at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln which will add to Coues's list journals discovered since his time and other collateral papers. * Period: 1804-06. Walker, Joseph E., ed. “THE TRAVEL NOTES OF JOSEPH GIBBONS, 1804.” Ohio History 1983 92: 96-146. Abstract: After General Anthony Wayne subdued the Indians of the Northwest Territories in 1794, settlement in eastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania became relatively safe. As a result, a stream of migrants began to pour into the territory, among them Quakers from Pennsylvania like Joseph Gibbons, who visited eastern Ohio and the Beaver River Valley of northwestern Pennsylvania in 1804. Gibbons's extensive travel notes, which are reprinted here, were written to provide his wife with an accurate account of the advantages and disadvantages of migration. * Period: 1804. Pollock, Nancy J. “THE EARLY USE OF RICE IN GUAM: THE EVIDENCE FROM THE HISTORIC RECORDS.” Journal of the Polynesian Society [New Zealand] 1983 92(4): 509-520. Abstract: Examines travel accounts by European visitors to Guam from 1521 to 1803 to try to determine when rice was introduced into the local diet. * Period: 1521-1803. Allen, Michael. “THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI IN 1803: THE TRAVELERS' VIEW.” Missouri Historical Review 1983 77(3): 253-271. Abstract: The 1803 purchase of Louisiana resolved questions and conflicts concerning the lower Mississippi Valley and stimulated public interest in the region. During the 1790's and early 1800's, numerous travel journals about the area were written by the soldiers, government officials, boatmen, guidebook authors, scientists, French and English tourists, and Mississippi Valley residents who made their way along the great river. These accounts offered a variety of perspectives of the region as it existed around the time of the Louisiana Purchase. * Period: 1790's-1803. Ghosh, Pranabendra Nath, transl. “COMTE DE MODAVE'S ACCOUNT OF BENGAL.” Quarterly Review of Historical Studies [India] 1983 23(3): 52-55. Abstract: Continued from a previous article. Outlines British colonial government in Bengal, including the military and military intervention in neighboring states as well as the denigration of Hindu religious sects. * Period: 18c. Ghosh, Pranabendra Nath, transl. “COMTE DE MODAVE'S ACCOUNT OF BENGAL.” Quarterly Review of Historical Studies [India] 1983 23(2): 24-34. Abstract: Continued from a previous article. Discusses British colonial government in Calcutta, noting the high positions occupied by Scots, military and commercial services, public administration, agricultural reform, judicial reform, expulsion of many Mughals, and religious toleration even of Hindus and Roman Catholics. * Period: 18c. Ghosh, Pranabendra Nath, transl. “COMTE DE MODAVE'S ACCOUNT OF BENGAL.” Quarterly Review of Historical Studies [India] 1983 23(1): 13-22. Abstract: Continued from a previous article (see entry 36A:5140). Provides a translation of excerpts from Louis Laurent de Frederbe's 18th-century description of Calcutta's various neighborhoods and ethnic groups. Focuses on the Portuguese missions and missionaries, Bengali Christians, and the religious orders active in Bengal. * Period: 18c. Sambrook, James. “PARNELL'S GARDEN TOURS: HAGLEY AND THE LEASOWES.” Eighteenth-Century Life 1983 8(2): 51-64. Abstract: Describes two diaries kept by an Irish visitor to England, John Parnell (1744-1801), in which he describes the landscaping of the estates he visited. * Period: 1762-70. Scheick, William J. “TELLING A WONDER: DIALECTIC IN THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BARTRAM.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 1983 107(2): 235-248. Abstract: The writings of John Bartram, an 18th-century Pennsylvania farmer and botanist, combine political and social criticism against a background of precise observations of nature, and employ a dialectical approach to understanding the process of scientific discovery. * Period: 1743-66. Jones, George F. and Savell, Don, ed. and transl. “THE FOURTH TRANSPORT OF GEORGIA SALZBURGERS. PART 1.” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly 1983 56(1): 3-26. Abstract: Reprints travel accounts by Johann Gottfried von Mullern and Johann Vigera who accompanied the fourth and last group of exiles from Salzburg, Austria, to Georgia; the exiles were forced to leave Austria because of their Protestant beliefs. Article to be continued. * Period: 1731-40's. Rowen, Herbert H. “AMERICAN TRAVELERS IN HOLLAND THROUGH TWO CENTURIES.” Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden [Netherlands] 1982 97(3): 617-640. Abstract: Many American travelers who visited the Netherlands in the 19th and 20th centuries have left important commentaries on Dutch institutions and life. Among them were the chemist and physicist John Grissom, the historian John L. Motley, and the clergyman William E. Griffis. The last wrote The American in Holland (1899) in which he displayed a rich knowledge and understanding of the Netherlands. Among 20th-century accounts must be mentioned Anthony Bailey's The Light in Holland (1970) and W. Z. Shetter's The Pillars of Society: Six Centuries of Civilization in the Netherlands (1971). * Period: 19c-20c. Beck, Earl R. “GERMAN TOURISTS IN FLORIDA: A TWO-CENTURY RECORD.” Florida Historical Quarterly 1982 61(2): 162-180. Abstract: Germans have commented frequently on Florida, its climate, flora, and fauna. For 200 years Germans have traveled the state. Commentators in the late 19th century were interested in plant life as well as environmental management. In contemporary times Florida must compete with other warm climate markets for the German tourist money, and travel accounts no longer exist. * Period: 1784-1982. Hutchison, William R. “INNOCENCE ABROAD: THE "AMERICAN RELIGION" IN .” Church History 1982 51(1): 71-84. Abstract: Discusses how European travelers' accounts and sociological observation treated American religion. American religion, like other aspects of American culture, was not seen by the Europeans as either a force of influence or a danger before the 20th century. European perceptions of American religion and the emergence of a view that American religion was not entirely innocent have further complicated the issue and made it difficult to venture into transatlantic analyses and comparative history. * Period: 1820-1920. Dollar, Clyde D. “THE JOURNAL OF CHARLES LERAYE: AUTHENTIC OR NOT?” South Dakota Historical Collections 1982 41: 67-191. Abstract: Discusses the publication history and examines in critical detail the journal of Charles LeRaye in order to determine its authenticity. In the narrative, first published in 1812 as part of a larger book of uncertain authorship, LeRaye claims to have traveled the unexplored Upper Missouri River region during 1801-05 as a captive of a band of Teton Sioux. A close reading of the document, however, suggests that no such man as LeRaye existed and that the narrative is a hoax. Were the book authentic it would be of great value, as it would contain the earliest recorded information on the Arikara, Mandan, and Western Sioux peoples. * Period: 1801-1912. Chiasson, Paulette M. “AS OTHERS SAW US: NOVA SCOTIAN TRAVEL LITERATURE FROM THE 1770S TO THE 1860S.” Nova Scotia Historical Review [Canada] 1982 2(2): 9-24. Abstract: Early British and French travelers in Nova Scotia recorded their impressions of the natives, social customs, farming, and fishing practices; they presented varying conclusions, generally containing censorious comments. * Period: 1774-1864. Wiggins, David K. “WORK, LEISURE, AND SPORT IN AMERICA: THE BRITISH TRAVELERS IMAGE, 1830-1860.” Canadian Journal of History of Sport [Canada] 1982 13(1): 28-60. Abstract: British travel accounts reveal perceptions of the role and types of sports and other leisure activities in America; unlike the British, Americans considered work of utmost importance and were "preoccupied with the pursuit of wealth." * Period: 1830-60. Stilgoe, John R. “THE MAGIC OF PENNSYLVANIA TRAVEL NARRATIVES. PART 2.” Pennsylvania Heritage 1982 7(2): 10-13. Abstract: Continued from a previous article (see entry 19A:2535). Travel accounts of 1756-1856 show that travelers' perspectives changed after the 1790's in response to industrialization and to their own alienation from the landscape and its people, which was caused by more convenient transportation and accommodations. * Period: 1756-1856. Bode, Edward, ed, transl. “CHARLES KLEINSORGE: MISSOURI TO CALIFORNIA, 1854.” Missouri Historical Review 1982 76(4): 421-446. Abstract: Charles Kleinsorge was a German immigrant who accompanied a wagon train and cattle drive from St. Louis to Sacramento. He wrote almost daily observations about the sights and his experiences on his trip, some of which are presented here. Kleinsorge's journal is one of a very few extant trail diaries in German. * Period: 1854. Myrsiades, Linda Duny. “NON-THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENTS IN GREECE: THROUGH THE EYES OF FOREIGN TRAVELLERS, 1750-1850.” East European Quarterly 1982 16(1): 45-58. Abstract: The entertainments of the lower classes in Greece changed little with the revolution and the subsequent infusion of Western customs. The religious festivals and fairs remained relatively unchanged. The upper classes did change, however, to pander to the tastes of the foreign circle around the king. * Period: 1750-1850. Greece. Trautmann, Frederic, transl. and introd. “WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA THROUGH A GERMAN'S EYES: THE TRAVELS OF FRANZ VON LOHER, 1846.” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 1982 65(3): 221-237. Abstract: Brief introductory biography of German lawyer, historian, professor, archivist, and author, Franz von Loher, followed by a translation of three chapters from his Land und Leute in der Alten und Neuen Welt: Reiseskizzen (1855), on his travels in western Pennsylvania in 1846, which describes churches and the Rappites, utopians who practiced celibacy, communal living, and common property. * Period: 1846. Benton, Lee David. “AN ODYSSEY INTO TEXAS: WILLIAM QUESENBURY WITH THE CHEROKEES.” Chronicles of Oklahoma 1982 60(2): 116-135. Abstract: A small group of Cherokees traveled from eastern Indian Territory into Texas where they sought lands for their people to settle. Accompanying them on this 1845 journey was William Minor Quesenbury, a white man from Van Buren, Arkansas, who recorded the trip in his personal journal, parts of which are reprinted here. In addition to describing the geography, Quesenbury told about a council, near present-day Waco, with a group of Chief Bowles's Cherokees and a council with Comanches further west. Cherokee efforts to gain part of the Texas land failed to pass Congress. * Period: 1845. Download 0.71 Mb. Share with your friends:
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