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| Krebs, Edgardo Carlos. “GEORGE CATLIN AND SOUTH AMERICA: A LOOK AT HIS "LOST" YEARS AND HIS PAINTINGS OF NORTHEASTERN ARGENTINA.” American Art Journal 1990 22(4): 4-39.
Abstract: American artist George Catlin (1796-1872) claimed to have made two trips to South America between 1854 and 1860, and recorded his experiences in three books. The article, focusing on his trip to northeastern Argentina in 1855, uses books, paintings, and mid-19th-century prints to attempt to verify Catlin's reports. Catlin's itinerary is reasonable and possible, although his reports mix fact and error; solid corroboration for the trip remains elusive. Catlin is often misleading or false in his use of Indian names and sites and his South American paintings are noticeably less accomplished than his paintings of North American Indians. * Period: 1855. Ogden, Annegret. “A LADY TOURS THE WIGWAMS: THE VOICE OF IDA PFEIFFER, AMATEUR ETHNOLOGIST AND GLOBE TROTTER FROM AUSTRIA.” Californians 1990 7(6): 14-16, 54-55. Abstract: Describes the visit of Viennese traveler Ida Pfeiffer to California in 1853, excerpting from her book, A Lady's Second Journey Round the World, (1855), comments on the Indians she encountered in California and the injustices done to them. * Period: 1853. Coffey, David W. “INTO THE VALLEY OF VIRGINIA: THE 1852 TRAVEL ACCOUNT OF CURRAN SWAIM.” Virginia Cavalcade 1990 40(1): 14-27. Abstract: Continued from a previous article. Provides the conclusion to Curran Swaim's journey from the Alleghenies to Modern Times, a utopian village on Long Island, where he joined his brother Benjamin. Includes passages from Swaim's diary, which he sent to his eldest brother Lyndon, a newspaper editor, in the fall of 1852. * Period: 1852. Coffey, David W. “INTO THE VALLEY OF VIRGINIA: THE 1852 TRAVEL ACCOUNT OF CURRAN SWAIM.” Virginia Cavalcade 1990 39(4): 158-171. Abstract: Reprints, with an introduction, the 1852 travel account of Curran Swaim, who journeyed from Fayette County, Virginia (now West Virginia) to Long Island, New York. His passage by foot and his abolitionist, nonconformist (utopian) views make his descriptions of the features and institutions of late antebellum Virginia society unusual and particularly sympathetic to slaves. * Period: 1852. Greninger, Edwin T. “TENNESSEANS ABROAD IN 1851-1852.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 1990 49(2): 75-83. Abstract: Describes the travel accounts that wealthy Tennesseans Henry Maney, James Hervey Otey, and Randal McGavock wrote of their trips to Europe in 1851-52. The three variously comment on the countryside, the social conventions of various societies, the difficulty of border crossings, love affairs, the condition of foreign slaves, and their preference for things Tennessean. * Period: 1851-52. Coelho, Teresa Pinto; Horward, Donald D. (commentary). “THE IMAGE OF PORTUGAL IN BRITISH TRAVEL LITERATURE, 1750-1850.” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850: Proceedings 1990 20: 508-515. Abstract: Surveys the valuable written records of the many and frequent British travelers in Portugal between about 1750 to 1850, "the golden age of travel literature on Portugal." At first an educational stop on the Grand Tour for many, Portugal's popularity as an exotic destination soared after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Beautiful Lisbon and Sintra featured prominently in most accounts; Catholicism was a favorite target of derision. Romantic writers added feelings and impressions to the travel genre, while the Peninsular War (1809-14) and the Portuguese civil war (1828-34) brought soldiers to Portugal who wrote of political and military matters in journalistic style. * Period: 1750-1850. Celsing, Lars Von; Barton, H. Arnold, transl. “AN ENGINEER'S VISIT TO AMERICA: CARL EDVARD NORSTROM'S JOURNEY IN 1848.” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly 1990 41(2): 69-83. Abstract: Reviews the travel diary of Carl Edvard Norstrom, a Swede who in 1848 ventured to the United States to study railway construction. Upon his return to Sweden in 1849, Norstrom designed Sweden's first railway. * Period: 1848. Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie. “INDIAN TRAVELLERS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND.” Indo-British Review [India] 1990 18(1): 137-141. Abstract: Summarizes the impressions of three Indians who visited England between 1800 and 1840: Mirza Abu Taleb Khan, a Muslim nobleman from Lucknow who accompanied an English friend back to England; Ardsheer Cursetjee, a Parsi shipwright who came to study steam vessels; and Yusef Khan Kammelposh, a soldier from Awadh who went to England to satisfy his curiosity. All three appear to have responded to England favorably. * Period: 1800-40. Aderman, Ralph M. “MILWAUKEE IN 1836.” Milwaukee History 1990 13(3): 96-100. Abstract: In 1836, Harriet Martineau left Chicago to return to the east via the Great Lakes. On board a ship anchored in Lake Michigan off Milwaukee, she formed and wrote her perceptions of the young city. She found it primitive, with few women and few signs of domesticity - a struggling community populated by hardy men. Had Martineau gone ashore, her perceptions might have been even more unflattering. * Period: 1836. Fontana, Bernard L. “CHURCH AND CROWN.” Journal of the Southwest 1990 32(4): 451-461. Abstract: The American Southwest was first "invented" as a unique region and "marketed" to outsiders by Spanish priests and explorers. The government of New Spain formally created an area roughly corresponding to the Southwest (including California and Sonora) in 1776, calling it the Interior Provinces. Visitors alternately praised and reviled the region. In the early 18th century, Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino described it as a fertile land with hardworking people, while others thought the inhabitants disgusting and the land "inherently miserable." Such opposite appraisals continue into the 20th century, each contributing to the area's rustic and romantic image. * Period: 1528-1815. Conrad, Ethel, ed. “TOURING OHIO IN 1811: THE JOURNAL OF CHARITY ROTCH.” Ohio History 1990 99(Sum-Aut): 135-165. Abstract: Charity Rotch and her husband Thomas, both devout Quakers from Connecticut, moved to Ohio in 1811 in an attempt to find a milder climate more conducive to Charity Rotch's failing health. During the trip to their new home, Charity kept a journal in which she documented in detail her travel experiences, and this account is reproduced here. * Period: 1811. Smith, Andrew B. “GORDON ON SPARRMAN.” Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library [South Africa] 1990 45(2): 72-77. Abstract: Discusses the comments and criticisms of Anders Sparrman's travel account, A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope (2d. ed., 1798), by Robert Jacob Gordon, commander of the Dutch garrison in Cape Town during the late 18th century. Gordon's analysis was based on his extensive travels in South Africa, his knowledge of cartography and local ethnic groups, and his military expertise. * Period: 1770's-90's. Bolitho, Harold. “TRAVELERS' TALES: THREE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY TRAVEL JOURNALS.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 1990 50(2): 485-504. Abstract: During the last decades of the 18th century recreational travel in Japan became increasingly popular. Travel guide books were widely published and travel literature attained distinction through the works of three notable travelers: Furukawa Koshoken, Tachibana Nankei, and Sugae Masumi. Influenced by the Japanese scientific enlightenment of the 18th century, their accounts catalog plants and minerals along with obligatory references to the scenery and passages of poetry. * Period: 18c. Byrd, Melanie S.; Burton, June K. (commentary). “DENON AND THE INSTITUTE OF EGYPT.” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850: Proceedings 1990 20: 436-443. Abstract: Illustrator, art historian, and member of Napoleon's Institute of Egypt, Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825) traveled and studied in Egypt between July 1798 and August 1799 and published an important account of his experiences, Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt During the Campaigns of General Bonaparte (1802). His scholarly report appeared in the institute's publication La Decade Egyptienne. Denon's sensitivity to the links between the development of Egyptian culture and its art and architecture and his placement of the achievements of Egyptian civilization in the context of European art history, despite some 18th-century inaccuracies and prejudices, were major contributions to the early development of Egyptology. * Period: 1798-99. Green, Mary Elizabeth. “DEFOE AND JOHNSON IN SCOTLAND.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 1990 20: 303-315. Abstract: British novelist and man of letters Daniel Defoe devoted the last fourth of his Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26) to observations about Scotland. A "highly artistic recreation of numerous travels made through Great Britain" when Defoe was acting as a government agent, the Tour is principally concerned with commercial issues. Focusing on the present, Defoe attempts to describe contemporary conditions. By contrast, in Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland (1775), Johnson's stated purpose for traveling is "to hear old traditions and see antiquated manners" before they are obliterated by change. * Period: 18c. McNamara, Kevin R. “THE FEATHERED SCRIBE: THE DISCOURSES OF AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY BEFORE 1800.” William and Mary Quarterly 1990 47(2): 210-234. Abstract: Surveys American ornithological writing from Columbus's time to 1800. By mentioning birds, early promotional tracts assured prospective settlers in America there would be an adequate food supply. Frequently, American writers employed discussions in their works on birds that related to issues pertaining to human affairs and society. * Period: 16c-18c. Anderson, Douglas. “BARTRAM'S TRAVELS AND THE POLITICS OF NATURE.” Early American Literature 1990 25(1): 3-17. Abstract: Discusses William Bartram's Travels (1791), described as "a travel journal, a naturalist's notebook, a moral and religious effusion, an ethnographic essay and a polemic on behalf of the American Indian." Written about his travels throughout the southeast during the American Revolution, the book is a combination of description and classification of natural phenomena as well as a commentary on the political and social conditions of the time. The author draws parallels between Bartram and Andrew Marvell. * Period: 1791. Ben-Aboud, Muhammad. “CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN BILAD ASHAM DURING THE 18TH CENTURY IN THE LIGHT OF IBN UTHMAN AL-MAKNASI.” Revue d'Histoire Maghrebine [Tunisia] 1990 17(59-60): 57-61. Abstract: Ibn Uthman al-Maknasi visited Syria and Palestine in 1787-88 in the course of his pilgrimage to Mecca. His account of the intellectual and cultural life there reflects the impression made upon him as a foreigner (from Morocco), although as a fellow Muslim he was able to participate in the discourse of the scholars and understand the popular folklore and superstitions of the ordinary people. His account reproduces for the historian many of both of these aspects of the local intellectual framework and consciousness of the region. * Period: 1787-88. VanBoer, Bertil. “THE TRAVEL DIARY OF JOSEPH MARTIN KRAUS: TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY.” Journal of Musicology 1990 8(2): 266-290. Abstract: Discusses the description of concerts and music in Europe provided by German-born, Swedish composer Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-92) during his "grand tour" of the continent during 1782 and 1783. * Period: 1782-83. Kenyon, John R. “AN ANNOTATED COPY OF WYNDHAM'S A GENTLEMAN'S TOUR THROUGH MONMOUTHSHIRE AND WALES, IN THE MONTHS OF JUNE AND JULY, 1774.” National Library of Wales Journal [Great Britain] 1990 26(4): 361-365. Abstract: An edition of the politician and traveler Henry Wyndham's account of a tour of Wales in 1774 contains travel comments for the benefit of an unknown acquaintance due to embark on a similar visit. The comments add much to the printed text. * Period: 1774. Jones, George F., ed. “REPORT OF MR. ETTWEIN'S JOURNEY TO GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA, 1765.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 1990 91(4): 247-260. Abstract: Reprints the 1765 travel diary of German immigrant and Moravian leader Johannes Ettwein (1721-1802), from the settlement of Bethabara, North Carolina, through South Carolina to Savannah, Georgia, to investigate the disposition of Moravian town lots abandoned after pacifist Moravians left for Pennsylvania and North Carolina during border disputes between Georgia and Spanish Florida. Ettwein describes his impressions of the people of the Carolina and Georgia frontier, where he received a warm reception as a Moravian clergyman. * Period: 1765. McVeagh, John. “"ROMANTICK" IRELAND: POCOCKE'S TOUR OF CORK AND KERRY, 1758.” Eire-Ireland 1990 25(2): 69-95. Abstract: Provides a summary of Richard Pococke's (1704-65) tour of southwest Ireland in 1758. This tour gives a better first-hand insight into 18th-century Ireland than any other tour by an Englishman. At the time, Cork and Kerry were places rarely visited by English travelers. * Period: 1758. Reid, John G. “MISSION TO THE MICMAC.” Beaver [Canada] 1990 70(5): 15-22. Abstract: In August 1715, Peter Capon, who served as commissary to the garrison at Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia, and had fishing interests on the Nova Scotia coast, began a 12-week voyage to Acadia, under orders of lieutenant governor Thomas Caulfield, to: inquire into recent seizures of New England fishing vessels by the Micmac Indians; find a likely place to meet with these natives; and visit French governor Philippe Pastour de Costebelle at Louisbourg to seek compensation for the seizures and a cessation of such activities. His diary shows that in 1715 Nova Scotia was a colony in which the complete relationships between French, British, Acadians, Micmacs, and New Englanders had yet to fall into any clear or stable pattern, notwithstanding the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713. * Period: 1715. Melman, Billie. “DESEXUALIZING THE ORIENT: THE HAREM IN ENGLISH TRAVEL WRITING BY WOMEN, 1763-1914.” Mediterranean Historical Review [Great Britain] 1989 4(2): 301-339. Abstract: In contrast with the commonly held view that Europeans have always associated the Orient with sensuality, there was another recorded European view of the Orient. Englishwomen's travel writings and in particular their writings on the harem are a valuable source, since European males were not allowed access to the places these women could go. These Victorian women demythologized the "sensual" harem, displacing an image of the oriental woman as a physical object. * Period: 1763-1914. Burchell, R. “ACCRETION, SYNCRETION AND REPETITION: BRITISH TRAVEL WRITERS DESCRIBE SAN FRANCISCO 1858-83.” European Contributions to American Studies [Netherlands] 1989 16: 397-407. Abstract: Many British travelers came to America with preconceived notions about American life and customs, and the reports they published of their experiences were often derivative and repetitive. Writers like Frederick Whymper, who initiated an often repeated thesis concerning the similarity in appearance between west coast Americans and the British, perpetuated sparsely documented facts about the West. Others emphasized the joys and appeals of traveling in San Francisco, downplaying or covering up the city's rough and tumble image to encourage traveling and further business interests in California. As objective records of the West of the 19th century, such writing suffers from many flaws. * Period: 1858-83. Schriber, Mary Suzanne. “JULIA WARD HOWE AND THE TRAVEL BOOK.” New England Quarterly 1989 62(2): 264-279. Abstract: Travel-book writing was dominated by males in the mid-19th century. The publication of From the Oak to the Olive: Records of a Pleasant Journey (1868) marks Julia Ward Howe's entry into the field. The work covers Howe's travels in Europe and serves as a historical composite of her three trips to Europe between 1843 and 1868. The publication establishes Howe as a travel authority and provides the reader with a woman's response to Europe and the East. Howe demonstrated her literary ability and feminine insight with this publication. * Period: 1843-68. MacLaren, I. S. “GUIDE TO PEOPLE AND PLACES IN KANE'S JOURNAL.” American Art Journal 1989 21(2): 66-87. Abstract: Reader's guide for the journal of Paul Kane (1810-71). Born in Ireland and raised in Canada, Kane spent 1846-48 as the first professional artist to travel the northern fur trade route from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean. * Period: 1846-48. MacLaren, I. S. “JOURNAL OF PAUL KANE'S WESTERN TRAVELS: GLOSSARY OF COMMON WORDS.” American Art Journal 1989 21(2): 63-65. Abstract: Provides a glossary for the journal of Paul Kane (1810-71). Born in Ireland and raised in Canada, who spent 1846-48 as the first professional artist to travel the northern fur trade route from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean. * Period: 1846-48. Kane, Paul; MacLaren, I. S., ed. “JOURNAL OF PAUL KANE'S WESTERN TRAVELS.” American Art Journal 1989 21(2): 22-63. Abstract: Prints the journal of Paul Kane (1810-71). Born in Ireland and raised in Canada, Kane spent 1846-48 as the first professional artist to travel the northern fur trade route from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean. * Period: 1846-48. MacLaren, I. S. “"I CAME TO RITE THARE PORTRAITS": PAUL KANE'S JOURNAL OF HIS WESTERN TRAVELS, 1846-48.” American Art Journal 1989 21(2): 6-22. Abstract: Paul Kane (1810-71). Born in Ireland and raised in Canada, Kane spent 1846-48 as the first professional artist to travel the northern fur trade route from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean. He had many adventures, saw spectacular scenery, and recorded it all in six notebooks of his journal. He also made 500 sketches, including many portraits of Indians he met along the way. * Period: 1846-48. Kadar, Judit. “PERSPECTIVES ON COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN BRITAIN AND HUNGARY AS SEEN BY ENGLISH TRAVELLERS IN THE 1830S.” Hungarian Studies [Hungary] 1989 5(1): 9-20. Abstract: Describes the background to growing British interest and travel in Hungary during the Reform Era of the 1830's and discusses the commercial and political perspectives on the country afforded by the accounts of the English travelers John Paget and Peter Evan Turnbull. * Period: ca 1815-45. Clark, George P., ed. “THROUGH INDIANA BY STAGECOACH AND CANAL BOAT: THE 1843 TRAVEL JOURNAL OF CHARLES H. TITUS.” Indiana Magazine of History 1989 85(3): 193-235. Abstract: In 1843, Charles H. Titus traveled from Maine to Greencastle, Indiana, to teach at Asbury University, now named DePauw University. His diary records his reactions to the people and places he visited. Topics covered also include physical and environmental descriptions of cities and countryside, the educational system, various Protestant churches, and the hardships of travel. There is also a considerable discussion of the Indian wars fought a generation earlier in the area. * Period: 1841-43. Dean, Dennis R. “NEW LIGHT ON WILLIAM MACLURE.” Annals of Science [Great Britain] 1989 46(6): 549-574. Abstract: The recent publication of 20 European travel journals written in the 19th century by William Maclure, the sometime "father of American geology," has entailed major revisions in our understanding of their author. A review of geological portions of all 20 journals, integrating their contents with Maclure's already known but never before comprehensively discussed publications, places the latter in a new perspective, and suggests a more adequate evaluation of Maclure's significance within a considerably revised schematization of the history of early American geology. * Period: 1800's-40. Clark, Dymphna. “BARON CHARLES VON HUGEL AND THE MACLEAYS.” Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society [Australia] 1989 75(3): 211-223. Abstract: Though Charles von Hugel's scientific career qualifies him as one of the South Pacific's most important 19th-century horticulturists, his recollections of his tour through New South Wales in 1833-34 provide valuable illustration of the customs and practices of contemporary Australian high society. The Austrian aristocrat's travel account also details his reactions to South Pacific environmental and socioeconomic conditions; he was accompanied on his journey by members of Australia's eminent Macleay family. * Period: 1833-34. Cochran, Robert B. “"LOW, DEGRADING SCOUNDRELS": GEORGE W. FEATHERSTONHAUGH'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE BAD NAME OF ARKANSAS.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1989 48(1): 3-16. Abstract: English geologist George W. Featherstonhaugh visited Arkansas in 1834 under the auspices of the US government. While impressed with the scenery, Featherstonhaugh had nothing but critical remarks to make about the inhabitants and their living conditions when he published his Excursion through the Slave States in 1844. * Period: 1834. Buss, Helen M. “"THE DEAR DOMESTIC CIRCLE": FRAMEWORKS FOR THE LITERARY STUDY OF WOMEN'S PERSONAL NARRATIVES IN ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS.” Studies in Canadian Literature [Canada] 1989 14(1): 1-17. Abstract: Uses a critical literary framework for evaluating the worth of such women's vernacular writings as diaries, journals, letters, and oral narratives through an examination of the content and context of the travel journals of two sisters, Frances Simpson and Isabel Finlayson, crossing Canada around 1830. * Period: ca 1830. Williams, W. D. “LOUIS BRINGIER AND HIS DESCRIPTION OF ARKANSAS IN 1812.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1989 48(2): 108-136. Abstract: Louis Bringier (1773-1860), who came from France to Louisiana as a child, traveled in Arkansas at least twice - 1810-12 and 1816. As a result of these travels he wrote an article, "Notices of the Geology, Mineralogy, Topography, Productions, and Aboriginal inhabitants of the regions around the Mississippi and its confluent waters," published in the American Journal of Science and Arts (better known as Silliman's Journal) in 1821. The author traces what can be determined about Bringier's life and prints excerpts from his article that pertain to Arkansas. * Period: 1812-20. Seymour, Deni J. “THE DYNAMICS OF SOBAIPURI SETTLEMENT IN THE EASTERN PIMERIA ALTA.” Journal of the Southwest 1989 31(2): 205-222. Abstract: The Sobaipuri band of the Pimas Indians lived in villages along the San Pedro River of Arizona. Spanish missionaries and soldiers over the years left documents noting the locations of their settlements. These, combined with archaeological investigations of the area, help determine the location of these settlements, which seem to have shifted every few years. * Period: 1690-1780. Moore, John M. “AN ENGLISH QUAKER MINISTER'S VISIT TO COLONIAL AMERICA, 1773-1775.” Quaker History 1989 78(2): 103-113. Abstract: Robert Walker (1717-85), a clothier of Gildersome near Leeds, England, traveled on horseback 5,000 miles in 589 days to Quaker congregations in all 13 American colonies beginning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His message to colonial Quakers on the eve of the Revolution was to "deny . . . all contrivances and combinations of men such as the non-importation agreement, to avoid the sloth induced by `outward ease,' and to pray for help from `the Great Physician.'" First riding for six months southwest to Georgia and back, he often slept in the woods or at inns because fellow Quakers were few. Wearied and discouraged, he did not set forth again until mid-August 1774 on a month's tour through New Jersey, New York, and the four New England colonies. His companions were Samuel Fisher and Morris Birkbeck to the southwest, and Joseph Potts, John Simpson, and Birkbeck to the northeast. * Period: 1773-75. Datta, Karubaki. “A PORTUGUESE TRAVEL ACCOUNT OF 18TH CENTURY BENGAL.” Quarterly Review of Historical Studies [India] 1989 28(4): 10-18. Abstract: Continued from a previous article. Describes the fertility and productivity of agrarian society in Bengal, the significant trade in luxury goods, Christian converts, the Dutch factory at Calkapur, differences between Muslims and Hindus, currencies in use, and an instance of sati or widow burning. * Period: 1737. Download 0.71 Mb. Share with your friends:
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