Encyclopedia of Travel Literature

by Brown, Christopher K.

• ISBN13: 9780874369403
• ISBN10: 0874369401
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Abc-Clio Inc

Summary

In the Encyclopedia of Travel Literature, an expert sketches the lives and achievements of explorers, adventurers, novelists, and poets from l450 to the present and describes, critiques, and quotes from their works.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Encyclopedia of Travel Literature
Adams, Douglas	1	(1)
Addison, Joseph	2	(1)
Akenside, Mark	3	(2)
Baedeker's	5	(1)
Bartram, William	5	(2)
Baudrillard, Jean	7	(1)
Bell, Gertrude	8	(1)
Bignold, Thomas Frank	9	(1)
Bird, Isabella	10	(4)
Bishop, Elizabeth	14	(1)
Bligh, William	15	(3)
Bly, Nellie	18	(1)
Boll, Heinrich	19	(1)
Borrow, George	20	(1)
Boswell, James	21	(2)
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine De	23	(1)
Bougrenet, Jacques Louis De	24	(1)
Browne, Edward Granville	25	(1)
Browning, Robert	26	(2)
Bruce, James	28	(1)
Brydone, Patrick	28	(1)
Buccaneer	29	(1)
Burchell, William J.	30	(1)
Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig	31	(1)
Burton, Sir Richard Francis	32	(3)
Butler, Samuel	35	(1)
Byron, Lord	36	(1)
Byron, Robert	37	(4)
Cabeza DeVaca, Alvar Nunez	41	(1)
Calderon De La Barca, Frances	41	(1)
Calverley, Charles Stuart	42	(1)
Cape Horn	43	(1)
Cape of Good Hope	43	(1)
Careri, Giovanni Francisco Gemelli	43	(2)
Carr, Sir John	45	(1)
Carre, Abbe	46	(1)
Cathay	47	(1)
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand	47	(2)
Cervantes, Miguel De	49	(2)
Champlain, Samuel De	51	(1)
Circumnavigation	52	(1)
Claude Mirror	52	(1)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	53	(1)
Columbus, Christopher	54	(3)
The Continent	57	(1)
Cook, Captain James	57	(2)
Cooper, James Fenimore	59	(3)
Coryate, Thomas	62	(3)
Dallam, Thomas	65	(1)
Dallas, Sir George	66	(1)
Dampier, William	66	(2)
Dana, Richard Henry	68	(1)
Darwin, Charles	69	(2)
Davidson, Robyn	71	(1)
Day-Lewis, Cecil	72	(1)
Defoe, Daniel	73	(3)
Dickens, Charles	76	(2)
Doughty, Charles Montagu	78	(1)
Drake, Sir Francis	79	(2)
Eldorado (or El Dorado)	81	(1)
Empire	81	(1)
Empson, Sir William	81	(2)
Fielding, Henry	83	(1)
Flaubert, Gustave	84	(1)
Forster, E. M.	85	(2)
Fox, Captain Luke	87	(1)
Fraser, G. S.	87	(1)
Fuller, Margaret	88	(3)
Gage, Thomas	91	(1)
Galton, Sir Francis	92	(1)
Gama, Vasco Da	92	(1)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von	93	(2)
Goldsmith, Oliver	95	(1)
Grail Quest	96	(2)
Grand Tour	98	(1)
Hall, Captain Basil	99	(1)
Hardy, Thomas	100	(1)
Harrer, Heinrich	101	(1)
Hemingway, Ernest	102	(2)
Hilton, James	104	(1)
Hood, Thomas	105	(1)
Huxley, Aldous	106	(3)
James, Captain Thomas	109	(1)
James, Henry (Jr.)	109	(2)
Jenkinson, Anthony	111	(1)
Johnson, Samuel	112	(3)
Kalm, Peter	115	(1)
Kane, Elisha Kent	115	(1)
Kerouac, Jack	116	(2)
Kinglake, Alexander William	118	(1)
Knight, Sarah Kemble	119	(2)
La Salle, Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur De	121	(1)
Lahontan, Louis-Armand De Lom D'Arce, Baron De	122	(1)
Lawrence, D. H.	123	(1)
Lawrence, T. E.	124	(2)
Leonowens, Anna	126	(1)
Levant	127	(1)
Lewis, Norman	128	(1)
Lithgow, William	129	(1)
Livingstone, David	130	(2)
Lord, W.B., and Thomas Baines	132	(1)
Loti, Pierre	132	(3)
Maclean, Sir Fitzroy	135	(1)
Macneice, Louis	136	(1)
Magellan, Ferdinand	137	(1)
Marvell, Andrew	138	(1)
Masefield, John	139	(1)
Mayle, Peter	140	(2)
Melville, Herman	142	(3)
Miller, Henry	145	(1)
Milnes, Richard Monckton	146	(2)
Missionary	148	(1)
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley	148	(2)
Montesquieu, Charles	150	(1)
Moodie, Susanna	151	(1)
Moore, Thomas	152	(1)
Moritz, Karl Philipp	153	(1)
Morris, Jan	154	(1)
Morris, William	155	(2)
Naipaul, Sir V.S.	157	(3)
Northwest Passage	160	(1)
Olearius, Adam	161	(2)
Pardoe, Julia	163	(1)
Park, Mungo	163	(2)
Peck, Annie	165	(2)
Periplus	167	(1)
Picaresque	167	(1)
Picaro	167	(1)
Prince, Nancy	168	(1)
RaJ	169	(1)
Raleigh, Sir Walter	169	(1)
Ricci, Matteo	170	(1)
Rogers, Samuel	171	(2)
Sand, George	173	(1)
Scott, Robert E.	173	(2)
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria	175	(1)
Sevigne, Marquise De	176	(1)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft	177	(2)
Silk Road	179	(1)
Slocum, Joshua	180	(1)
Smith, Captain John	181	(2)
Smollett, Tobias	183	(1)
Southey, Robert	184	(1)
Speke, John Hanning	185	(1)
Spice Islands	186	(1)
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton	186	(3)
Steinbeck, John	189	(2)
Stephens, John Lloyd	191	(2)
Sterne, Laurence	193	(2)
Stevens, Thomas	195	(1)
Stevenson, Robert Louis	195	(4)
Strait of Magellan	199	(1)
Swift, Jonathan	199	(4)
Tatchell, Frank	203	(1)
Taylor, John	203	(1)
Thackeray, William Makepeace	203	(2)
Theroux, Paul	205	(2)
Thompson, Hunter S.	207	(1)
Thoreau, Henry David	208	(1)
Tocqueville, Alexis De	209	(1)
Trench, Richard Chenevix	210	(1)
Trollope, Anthony	211	(2)
Trollope, Frances	213	(1)
Twain, Mark	214	(4)
Tyrrell, Albert E.	218	(3)
Varthema, Lodovico De	221	(1)
Verne, Jules	222	(2)
Voltaire	224	(3)
Waugh, Evelyn	227	(1)
Wellsley, Dorothy, Duchess Of	228	(2)
Wharton, Edith	230	(2)
Willard, Emma Hart	232	(1)
Williams, William Carlos	233	(1)
Wolff, Joseph	234	(1)
Wordsworth, Dorothy	234	(1)
Wordsworth, William	235	(2)
Workman, Fanny Bullock	237	(2)
Young, Arthur	239	(2)
References	241	(2)
About the Author	243	(2)
Index	245