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Index
Cover
Copyright Page
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the Texts
Select Bibliography
Chronology
TRAVEL WRITING
PART I. EUROPE AND ASIA MINOR
1. CLASSICAL GROUND
JOSEPH ADDISON, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (1705)
JOHN GALT, Letters from the Levant (1813)
2. DEBATING THE TOUR
The Gentleman's Magazine: 'Of Travelling' (1731)
THOMAS NUGENT, The Grand Tour (1756)
RICHARD HURD, Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel (1775)
3. SOCIETY AND SENTIMENT
JAMES BOSWELL, Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland (1764)
TOBIAS SMOLLETT, Travels through France and Italy (1766)
JOHN MOORE, A View of Society and Manners in Italy (1781)
HESTER LYNCH PIOZZI, Observations in a Journey through Italy (1789)
4. REVOLUTIONARY TOURISM
ARTHUR YOUNG, Travels, during the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789 (1792)
HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS, Letters from France (1790-1796)
ANN RADCLIFFE, A Journey made in the Summer of 1794 (1795)
CHARLOTTE ANNE EATON, Narrative of a Residence in Belgium (1817)
WALTER SCOTT, Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk (1816)
5. OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, 'Embassy Letters' (1716-1718)
LADY ELIZABETH CRAVEN, A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople (1789)
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)
PART II. THE BRITISH ISLES
1. THE STATE OF THE NATION
CELIA FIENNES, The Diary of Celia Fiennes (c. 1685-1703)
DANIEL DEFOE, A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-1726)
ARTHUR YOUNG, A Tour in Ireland (1780)
JOHN CARR, The Stranger in Ireland (1806)
WILLIAM COBBETT, Rural Rides in the Southern, Western and Eastern Counties of England (1822—1826)
2. PICTURESQUE TOURISM
THOMAS GRAY, Journal in the Lakes (1769)
THOMAS WEST, A Guide to the Lakes (1784)
WILLIAM GILPIN, Observations on the River Wye (1782)
ANN RADCLIFFE, Observations during a Tour in the Lakes (1795)
3. SCOTLAND
MARTIN MARTIN, A Voyage to St Kilda (1698)
SAMUEL JOHNSON, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775); JAMES BOSWELL, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1773)
MARY ANN HANWAY, A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland (1777)
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH, Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland (1803)
JAMES HOGG, 'Malise's Journey to the Trossacks' (from The Spy, 1811)
PART III. AFRICA
1. THE SLAVE TRADE, 1732—1789
JOHN BARBOT, A Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea (1732)
JOHN ATKINS, A Voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West-Indies (1735)
JOHN NEWTON, Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade (1788)
OLAUDAH EQUIANO, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
2. INFANT COLONY, 1794
ANNA MARIA FALCONBRIDGE, Two Voyages to Sierra Leone (1793)
3. EXPLORERS, 1790—1822
JAMES BRUCE, Travels into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790)
MUNGO PARK, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (1799)
JOHN BARROW, Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa (1801)
JAMES K. TUCKEY, Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire (1818)
WILLIAM J. BURCHELL, Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa (1822)
PART IV. THE CARIBBEAN
1. NATURAL HISTORY AND AESTHETICS
HANS SLOANE, A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christopher and Jamaica (1707 /1725)
JAMES HAKEWILL, A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica (1825)
2. WORKING TRAVELLERS
JOHN GABRIEL STEDMAN, Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1790)
OLAUDAH EQUIANO, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
MARY PRINCE, The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave (1831)
3. PLANTERS
WILLIAM BECKFORD, A Descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica (1790)
MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS, Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834)
4. LADIES
JANET SCHAW, Journal of a Lady of Quality (1774—1776)
MARIA NUGENT, Journal of a Residence in Jamaica (1801—1805)
PART V NORTH AMERICA
1. SURVEYORS AND EXPLORERS
JOHN LAWSON, A New Voyage to Carolina (1709)
GEORGE SHELVOCKE, A Voyage Round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea (1726)
WILLIAM BYRD, History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina (1728)
WILLIAM BARTRAM, Travels Through North and SouthCarolina (1791)
SAMUEL HEARNE, A Journey from Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean (1795)
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, Voyages through North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans (1801)
DAVID THOMPSON, Narrative of his Explorations in Western America (1784-1812)
2. MANNERS AND MORALS
ISAAC WELD, Travels through the States of North America (1799)
JOHN DAVIS, Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America (1803)
ANNE GRANT, Memoirs of an American Lady (1807)
WILLIAM COBBETT, A Year's Residence in the United States of America (1818)
FRANCES TROLLOPE, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)
PART VI. AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC
1. PRIVATEERS, 1680–1744
WILLIAM DAMPIER, A New Voyage Round the World (1697-1703)
WOODES ROGERS, A Cruising Voyage Round the World (1712)
RICHARD WALTER AND BENJAMIN ROBINS, A Voyage Round the World by George Anson (1748)
2. THE COOK EXPEDITIONS, 1768–1780
JAMES COOK, The Voyage of the Endeavour (1768-1771)
JOSEPH BANKS, Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks (1770)
GEORGE FORSTER, A Voyage Round the World (1777)
JAMES COOK, The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure (1772-1775)
JAMES COOK, The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery (1776-1780)
3. COLONIZING NEW SOUTH WALES, 1788–1791
HIRAM WOOD, The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (1790)
JOHN HUNTER, An Historical Journal of Transactions at Port Jackson (1793)
WATKIN TENCH, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson (1793)
JOHN NICOL, The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner (1822)
MARY ANN PARKER, A Voyage Round the World (1795)
4. THE COMING OF THE MISSIONARIES, 1796–1824
WILLIAM WILSON, A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean (1799)
WILLIAM ELLIS, Narrative of a Tour through Hawaii, or Owhyhee (1826)
Explanatory Notes
Footnotes
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