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| Abstract: Reprints master's mate John Sherriff's log of William Broughton's 1792 exploration of the lower Columbia River on the Chatham. Most entries contain nautical information important to future navigators, but Sherriff also made numerous observations about Pacific Northwest Indians and their principal villages along the waterway. Most impressive was the Chinook town known as Chemoke, which at that time was deserted due to seasonal migrations of its inhabitants. Log entries describe several Indian burials and the abundance of animal life in the area. * Period: 1792.
Jenkins, Ralph E. “THE CREATION AND RECEPTION OF THOMAS PENNANT'S OF LONDON.” National Library of Wales Journal [Great Britain] 1992 27(3): 325-336. Abstract: Welsh zoologist and travel writer Thomas Pennant changed the genre of writing about London with his 1790 Of London. Earlier historians had chronicled its politics and economics, but Pennant dwelt on the aesthetics and experience. His general optimism about the progress of industry, and of civilization in general, contributed to the book's great popularity. The style of 20th-century accounts of London trace back to Pennant's work. * Period: 1789-90. Moore-Colyer, Richard, ed. “TRAVELLING WITH HORSES: A SHROPSHIRE GROOM'S ACCOUNT (NLW MS POWYS CASTLE 946).” National Library of Wales Journal [Great Britain] 1992 27(3): 319-324. Abstract: Presents the financial records of John Price of Oakley Park as he took a group of mares from Wales to several places in England, 1742-43. He was probably in the employ of Herbert Henry Herbert (1703-72). The purpose of the trip is unknown, perhaps for breeding or training the mares. * Period: 1742-43. Nelson, Vernon H. “PETER BOEHLER'S REMINISCENCES OF THE BEGINNINGS OF NAZARETH AND BETHLEHEM.” Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society 1992 27: 1-25. Abstract: Presents a German transcription, an annotated translation, and a discussion of a little-known account of the beginnings of Moravian work in America. Now preserved in the Moravian archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Peter Boehler's (1712-75) description of travels, land deals, and the building of the first permanent structures fills in some details of the life of early Christian missionaries in the New World. * Period: 1740-43. Nahra, Nancy. “THE SECULAR CONTINENT OF BARON DE LAHONTAN.” Historical Reflections 1992 18(3): 59-75. Abstract: In three volumes of travel writing published in 1703, Baron Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce LaHontan (1666-1715?) sought to contradict earlier Jesuit accounts of life in Canada, and in particular of Indian society and culture. Although "Letter XVI" of his Nouveaux Voyages is an entire fabrication, and although Lahontan never found the Long River he described therein, it served the author's purpose of undermining missionary authority in the minds of French readers. * Period: 1688-1703. Cross, A. G. “THE RUSSIAN BANYA IN THE DESCRIPTIONS OF FOREIGN TRAVELLERS AND IN THE DEPICTIONS OF FOREIGN AND RUSSIAN ARTISTS.” Oxford Slavonic Papers [Great Britain] 1991 24: 34-59. Abstract: The origins of the Russian banya, or public bathhouse, are unknown. However, Western comment on the institution appears as early as the reign of Queen Elizabeth. While most Western observers noted the possible medical advantages of the steam bath, most also deplored the abuses and immorality they associated with it. After Catherine the Great forbade the mixing of the sexes in the banya, foreign interest began to wane, although it can still be seen in literature and the visual arts well into the 19th century. * Period: 16c-20c. Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad. “THE PERSIAN GAZE AND WOMEN OF THE OCCIDENT.” South Asia Bulletin 1991 11(1-2): 21-31. Abstract: Reviews the writings of Persian travelers to Europe in the 18th-19th centuries and examines how their narratives on European women reveal a reconstruction of Persian history and "self" based on Western mores, culture, economics, and political life. * Period: 18c-19c. Obeidat, Marwan M. “OBSERVATIONS IN THE EAST: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN TRAVEL ACCOUNTS OF THE MUSLIM NEAR ORIENT BEFORE 1900.” Islam [Germany] 1991 68(1): 115-125. Abstract: Fascination with the Islamic Middle East in the 19th century spurred many Americans to travel there, and many published accounts of their experiences. The article examines the motivations (e.g., religion, adventure, scholarship) and preconceptions of these travelers, and the images their accounts conveyed, and prints a bibliography of nearly two hundred Middle Eastern travel accounts published in America in the 19th century. * Period: 19c. Snow, Edwina Jo. “BRITISH TRAVELERS VIEW THE SAINTS, 1847-1877.” Brigham Young University Studies 1991 31(2): 63-81. Abstract: Examines the image of Mormons in accounts by British travelers to the Salt Lake Valley between the Mormon arrival in 1847 and the death of Brigham Young in 1877, including seven books by authors traveling by wagon or stagecoach before the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 and 18 by those who arrived by rail. Although the image was generally broader and more balanced than the stereotype of other genres, "the travelers wrote in light of the stereotype, tempering it, adding details, and responding to the issues it raised." Polygamy was the most common topic of discussion. * Period: 1847-77. Noe, Kenneth. “"APPALACHIA'S" CIVIL WAR GENESIS: SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AS DEPICTED BY NORTHERN AND EUROPEAN WRITERS, 1825-1865.” West Virginia History 1991 50: 91-108. Abstract: Discusses the descriptions of southwestern Virginia, later West Virginia, by Northern and European travelers in the early to mid-19th century. Among the most interesting are those written by Union soldiers during the Civil War. * Period: 1825-65. Dearinger, David B. “BRITISH TRAVELERS' VIEWS OF AMERICAN ART BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR.” American Art Journal 1991 23(1): 38-69. Abstract: Examines 74 travel books on America written by British authors between 1776 and 1860 that have notable discussions of the arts in America. Cities most often mentioned were Philadelphia, New York, Washington, and Boston. The accounts list many names of American artists and paintings and sculpture. Comments were generally critical at the beginning of this period, but by the mid-19th century they were more positive. Most authors found American art inferior to British; they were most impressed by American artists who worked in Europe and whose works they had already seen in Europe. The appendix contains complete bibliographic information on the 74 accounts studied. * Period: 1776-1860. Goodman, David. “READING GOLD-RUSH TRAVELLERS' NARRATIVES.” Australian Cultural History [Australia] 1991 10: 99-112. Abstract: Analyzes the structure of travel narratives by British writers in Australia during the gold rush years of the early 1850's. Two themes dominated much of this literature: the "colonial theme," which emphasized the disruption of social classes, extremes of wealth and poverty, and scope for male enterprise that characterized the Australian frontier; and the "pastoral theme," which described a bountiful, unspoiled, almost Edenic landscape whose "feminine" qualities were contrasted with the "masculine" despoliation of the gold fields. * Period: 1850's. Weisensel, Peter R. “RUSSIAN SELF-IDENTIFICATION AND TRAVELERS' DESCRIPTIONS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.” Central Asian Survey [Great Britain] 1991 10(4): 65-85. Abstract: Discusses how descriptions of the Ottoman Empire by Russian travelers between 1800 and 1853 reflected their own cultural and social context and how the content and focus of their writings changed in response to changes in Russian life. * Period: 1800-53. Horne, Julia. “TRAVELLING THROUGH THE ROMANTIC LANDSCAPES OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.” Australian Cultural History [Australia] 1991 10: 84-98. Abstract: Discusses romantic symbolism in 19th-century travel descriptions of the Blue Mountains, a small mountain range near Sydney, Australia. At the end of the 18th century, European artists and writers began to depict mountains not as scenes of desolation, but as vital, spiritual refuges from a mundane, increasingly industrialized world. Early explorers and travelers in Australia concentrated on descriptions of economically productive land. But by the middle of the 19th century, Australian travel narratives evoked images of the "sublime" in Australia's own Blue Mountains. This appropriation of romantic ideas, formerly used to describe only European landscapes, evidenced Australia's emergent sense of nationhood. * Period: 1788-1852. Gunny, Ahmad. “ISLAM IN NERVAL'S VOYAGE EN ORIENT.” Journal of Islamic Studies [Great Britain] 1991 2(2): 195-209. Abstract: Examines French poet Gerard de Nerval's travels in and writings about the Middle East between 1843 and 1851. Nerval attempted to dispel the myths about Islam that were popular in scholarly European writing at the time. He discussed the lives of women, the realities of slavery, and the duties of a Muslim in Turkish and Egyptian life. * Period: 1843-51. Etter, Patricia A. “FORTY-NINERS IN THE LAND OF THE AZTECS.” Journal of Arizona History 1991 32(1): 1-20. Abstract: Although most Forty-Niners followed the overland or Horn routes, about 6,000 went through Mexico and Baja California. In most cases these American travelers met Apaches, bandits, hostile Mexicans, and desert hardships. Their adventures add to the gold rush literature. * Period: 1849. Stowe, William W. “CONVENTIONS AND VOICES IN MARGARET FULLER'S TRAVEL WRITING.” American Literature 1991 63(2): 242-262. Abstract: Though not normally thought of as a travel writer, Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes (1844) and her letters written while in Europe in the late 1840's to Horace Greeley's New York Tribune are fine examples of American travel writing. The works also provide a review of polyvocal travel writing techniques and insight into Fuller's feminist and radical convictions. * Period: 1840's. Mulder, William. “NAUVOO OBSERVED.” Brigham Young University Studies 1991 32(1-2): 95-118. Abstract: Recounts the descriptions by non-Mormon travelers who visited the town of Nauvoo, Illinois, during the 1840's, when it was the headquarters for the Mormon Church. The travel accounts provide insight into the social conditions of the town. * Period: 1840's. Huth, Geoffrey A. “A NORTHERN TOURIST: THE TRAVEL DIARY OF CALEB S. HALLOWELL, 1843.” Hudson Valley Regional Review 1991 8(1): 84-119. Abstract: Prints excerpts of the travel diary of Alexandria, Virginia, Quaker schoolteacher Caleb Shreve Hallowell, who traveled through New York's Hudson Valley in the summer of 1843. The diary retains some of the characteristic self-consciousness of the Quaker spiritual journal, but it also accurately records cultural and scenic details and the experience of antebellum tourism. * Period: 1843. Townsend, Lucy F. and Wiley, Barbara, ed. “EVER THE TEACHER, EVEN WHEN HONEYMOONING: EMMA WILLARD'S LOST GEOGAPHY LESSON.” New England Quarterly 1991 64(2): 297-308. Abstract: Reprints, with annotation, a letter written in 1838 by Emma Willard to her former students at the Troy Female Seminary during her honeymoon with second husband Christopher C. Yates. The letter reflects Willard's notions about teaching geography, and was intended to be used as a lesson by the students. * Period: 1838. Jansma, Jerome and Jansma, Harriet H. “GEORGE ENGELMANN IN ARKANSAS TERRITORY.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1991 50(3): 225-248. Abstract: George Engelmann (1809-84), a German physician and botanist, came to the United States in 1832, establishing his residence in St. Louis, Missouri, where he practiced medicine and helped develop the Missouri Botanical Garden. In 1835 he visited Arkansas and described Hot Springs in an article, translated and reprinted here, for Das Westland, a German-language journal he cofounded. He describes the flora, the geological formations, the springs themselves, and the crude accommodations provided for guests. * Period: 1835. Stanzel, Franz K. “INNOCENT EYES? CANADIAN LANDSCAPE AS SEEN BY FRANCES BROOKE, SUSANNA MOODIE AND OTHERS.” International Journal of Canadian Studies [Canada] 1991 (4): 97-109. Abstract: English authors who traveled to Canada in the 18th and early 19th centuries took with them the ideas of the sublime and the picturesque, which were the subject of much discussion in Europe at the time. Besides Frances Brooke, it is above all Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill whose descriptions of the Canadian landscape reveal the powerful influence of these ideas. Moodie was particularly attracted to the sublime, Traill to the picturesque. These authors apply to Canada the traditional notions, derived from the theory of climatic zones, according to which northerners were credited with qualities of toughness and endurance, less so with mental agility. In general, the way travelers perceive a foreign country when traveling abroad is almost always predetermined by the view of the country they take with them. Descriptive literature is a particularly rich source of material from which one can learn about this phenomenon. * Period: 18c-1834. Widdicombe, Toby, ed. “NEW YORK THEATRE IN THE 1830S: AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT.” Nineteenth Century Theatre 1991 19(1): 45-51. Abstract: Introduces and prints a brief account of New York City theaters, actors and actresses, and audience behavior by English journalist and editor Richard Gooch during his visit to the city in 1833-34. * Period: 1833-34. Porter, Joseph C. “MARVELOUS FIGURES, ASTONISHED TRAVELERS: THE MONTANA EXPEDITION OF MAXIMILIAN, PRINCE OF WIED.” Montana 1991 41(4): 36-53. Abstract: Provides an account of the 1833 scientific expedition of Prince Maximilian of Wied. His journey began in St. Louis, with his travels taking him up the Missouri River to Fort McKenzie, the outermost post of the American Fur Company in Montana, where the prince remained for over a month. Renowned western artist Karl Bodmer accompanied Maximilian on this scientific expedition. The combination of Bodmer's sketches and Maximilian's writings creates a unique documentation of the various Indian tribes they encountered, particularly the Blackfeet. * Period: 1833. Fischer, Steven Roger. “HUGH CUMING'S ACCOUNT OF AN ANCHORAGE AT RAPANUI (EASTER ISLAND), NOVEMBER 27-8, 1827.” Journal of the Polynesian Society [New Zealand] 1991 100(3): 303-315. Abstract: A verbatim transcription, with an extended commentary, of six pages of a journal of a voyage by the schooner Discoverer from Valparaiso to the Society and adjacent islands in 1827-28. * Period: 1827. Fage, J. D. “HAWKINS' HOAX? A SEQUEL TO "DRAKE'S FAKE."“ History in Africa 1991 18: 83-91. Abstract: Published in three American editions in 1797, Joseph Hawkins' A History of a Voyage to the Coast of Africa, and Travels into the Inteior of that Country was the purported narration by a New York supercargo of his 1794-95 Atlantic voyage to West Africa and his observations of the "Ebo country" of the interior. Hawkins' West African geography is hopelessly inaccurate, and his descriptions of Africans and African societies are demonstrative plagiarisms of specific earlier accounts. * Period: 17c-18c. Certeau, Michel de. “TRAVEL NARRATIVES OF THE FRENCH TO BRAZIL: SIXTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES.” Representations 1991 (33): 221-226. Abstract: Introduction, overview, and methodological discussion of a historical and anthropological inquiry into the European encounter with New World inhabitants, particularly the French with the Brazilian Indians, during the 16th-18th centuries, and the emergence of ethnology as the philosophical and scientific mediation of this encounter with the "other." * Period: 16c-18c. Alkon, Paul. “DID MINNESOTA HAVE AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, AND IF SO, WHEN?” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 1991 21: 267-288. Abstract: Overviews the history of the area now known as Minnesota during the 18th century, with particular reference to Jonathan Carver's Travels through the Interior Parts of North America (1781). Carver's account of the Indians is a journey through time as well as through space, particularly in the western territories, where Indians lived as they had in ancient times. * Period: 18c. Moore, Cornelia N. “JOHAN SPLINTER STAVORINUS' VOYAGES TO THE EAST INDIES: PATRIOT IN AN AGE OF REASON.” Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies [Canada] 1991 12(1): 4-10. Abstract: Considers the two posthumously published Reize van Zeeland books by Dutch naval captain Johan Splinter Stavorinus (1739-88) that describe the voyages he took to South Africa and Asia between 1768 and 1778. Stavorinus discussed seafaring, his travels, and popular science in the books, published in 1793 and 1795, both of which enjoyed great popularity. * Period: 1768-95. Terrie, Philip G. “TEMPESTS AND ALLIGATORS: THE AMBIGUOUS WILDERNESS OF WILLIAM BARTRAM.” North Dakota Quarterly 1991 59(2): 17-32. Abstract: William Bartram wandered "through the wild and sparsely settled Southeast" portions of America, not motivated by desire for settlement or territory but rather to find out what was there. His Travels (1791) is one of the first books to interpret the American landscape. Continually curious about nature, Bartram investigated plants, classified them, and kept extensive records about which could be of beneficial use. * Period: 1773-77. Black, Jeremy. “ON THE GRAND TOUR IN 1771-1773.” Yale University Library Gazette 1991 66(1-2): 33-46. Abstract: The letters to his mother by Norton Nicholls (1750-1811), rector of Blundeston, Suffolk, during his tour of France and Italy in 1771-73, provide an example of the many accounts of the Grand Tour, which had become a crucial rite of passage for the 18th-century elite, first the English, then others. Nicholls was not at the apex of society, but was observant, intelligent, and a graduate of Cambridge, and so managed to gain entry to high society on the continent. * Period: 1771-73. Kajdanski, Edward. “THE AUTHENTICITY OF MAURICE BENYOWSKY'S ACCOUNT OF HIS VOYAGE THROUGH THE BERING SEA: THE EARLIEST DESCRIPTION AND THE EARLIEST DRAWINGS OF ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND.” Terrae Incognitae 1991 23: 51-80. Abstract: In 1771, Polish nobleman Maurycy Beniowski (Maurice Benyowsky, 1846-86) fled from exile in Siberia on the sailing vessel St. Peter and St. Paul. From the eastern port of Kamchatka the ship undertook a brief exploratory voyage in the Bering Sea before sailing to the Portuguese colony of Macao on mainland China. During the voyage, important discoveries were made about the people and geography of the region, which Beniowski later developed into a popular illustrated book. Despite the success of the English version, a poor translation has prompted several Polish historians to claim that Beniowski fabricated his journey from previously published accounts. However, a careful reading of the text and a review of the illustrations show that Beniowski was the first to present detailed information about St. Lawrence Island. * Period: 1771. Sher, Richard B. “WYNDHAM'S LETTERS ON SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN ENGLAND, 1758.” Yale University Library Gazette 1991 65(3-4): 146-158. Abstract: In three letters to his father, inveterate traveler Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819) described his journey through northern England and Scotland during the summer of 1758, while he was a student at Oxford. They are descriptive and rather impersonal, as though he were training for writing publishable travel accounts. * Period: 1758. Carmichael, Catherine D. “TWO GENTLEMAN TRAVELERS IN THE SLOVENE LANDS IN 1737.” Slovene Studies 1991 13(1): 19-26. Abstract: The travel accounts of two British travelers, Richard Pococke, who published A Description of the East (1743-45), and his cousin Jeremiah Milles, who recorded his journey in letters sent to the Bishop of Waterford (which have been preserved at the British Library), provide information on Slovenian classical artifacts, architecture, and natural phenomena, especially the periodic lake in Cerknica. * Period: 1737. Vlaardingerbroek, Kees. “FAUSTINA BORDONI APPLAUDS JAN ALENSOON: A DUTCH MUSIC-LOVER IN ITALY AND FRANCE IN 1723-4.” Music and Letters [Great Britain] 1991 72(4): 536-551. Abstract: Discusses the travels of wealthy Dutch lawyer Jan Alensoon (1683-1769) in the Netherlands, France, and southern Italy from 1723 to 1724, noting his particular interest in Italian vocal music. Alensoon's travel diary details the music he heard and the many musicians and singers he met, including Venetian soprano Faustina Bordoni. * Period: 1723-24. Strien, C. D. van. “RECUSANT HOUSES IN THE SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS AS SEEN BY BRITISH TOURISTS, C. 1650-1720.” Recusant History [Great Britain] 1991 20(4): 495-511. Abstract: During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, English Protestant tourists were intrigued by the lives of English Catholics who were living in Flanders and Brabant. * Period: ca 1650-1720. Lewy, Mordechay. “FROM BENDER TO JERUSALEM. CAROLINIAN EXPEDITIONS AS A NEW SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 18TH CENTURY.” Karolinska Forbundets Arsbok [Sweden] 1991: 18-42. Abstract: Describes the little-known reports and maps of two Swedish travelers (sponsored by Charles XII during his captivity in the Moldavian town of Bendery) to the Holy Land in 1710-13, Cornelius Loos and Michael Eneman, as valuable sources in the areas of cartography, geography, art history, and the Jewish presence in the region. * Period: 1710-13. Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad. “IMAGINING WESTERN WOMEN: OCCIDENTALISM AND EURO-EROTICISM.” Radical America 1990 24(3): 73-87. Abstract: Discusses Persian travelers' encounters with European women and culture from the 17th to the 19th centuries, the eroticization of European women's image in Persia, and the use of that image as a marker of otherness in the political contestations between Persian modernists and countermodernists. * Period: 17c-20c. Williams, Alan F. “TRUNK AND BRANCH: A CELEBRATION OF RAILWAYS IN CANADA, 1836-1944.” British Journal of Canadian Studies [Great Britain] 1990 5(1): 1-25. Abstract: Outlines the difficulties and achievements associated with the construction of the Canadian railway system by juxtaposing a history of the major construction phases with travel narratives from various times during the railway's evolution. Railroads were first built in eastern Canada during the 1840's; at this time they were fragile, haphazard, and uncomfortable for riders. By the 1880's, however, Canadian railroads ran coast-to-coast and paved the way for the settling of the western provinces. Twentieth-century railroads extended north to James Bay and northern Ontario. For almost a century, the development of Canada's railroads reflected and made possible the growth of the nation itself. * Period: 1836-1944. Goluboff, Benjamin. “"LATENT PREPAREDNESS": ALLUSIONS IN AMERICAN TRAVEL LITERATURE ON BRITAIN.” American Studies 1990 31(1): 65-82. Abstract: Americans traveled in Great Britain during the 19th century with definite preconceptions about what they might find and see, a "latent preparedness." These American tourists in Britain then wrote narratives of their travels replete with allusions to the prestige and cultural superiority of the British. Such narratives, in turn, familiarized other Americans with this social, cultural, and physical terrain. * Period: 1805-1905. Woods, James M. “IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: SLAVERY IN THE TRAVEL ACCOUNTS OF THE OLD SOUTH, 1790-1860.” Southern Studies 1990 1(1): 33-59. Abstract: Examines almost 50 published accounts by travelers in the South from 1790 to 1860, most of them by Europeans. A majority of writers remarked on the irony and injustice of slavery in a land of freedom. Different applications of law were pointed out by some, while others were generally sympathetic to slavery, comparing the condition of slaves to the poor in their own countries. Despite claims to objectivity, most writers echoed the sentiments and ideas of white slaveholding culture regarding the nature and behavior of blacks. Specific topics noted include: gang labor, clothing, diet, housing, musical talent, and religion. Travel accounts do not provide an adequate and objective view of slavery. Most did not attempt to be objective, and those who did failed. * Period: 1790-1860. Download 0.71 Mb. Share with your friends:
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