Travel Writing 1700-1830 An Anthology

by Bohls, Elizabeth A.; Duncan, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780192840516
• ISBN10: 0192840517
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

'How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it were, placed on the borders of a new world!' - William Bartram'Thus you see, dear sister, the manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would have us believe.' - Mary Wortley MontaguWith widely varied motives - scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism - British travellers fanned out to every corner of the world in the period the Critical Review labelled the 'Age of Peregrination'. The Empire, already established in the Caribbean andNorth America, was expanding in India and Africa and founding new outposts in the Pacific in the wake of Captain Cook's voyages. In letters, journals, and books, travellers wrote at first-hand of exotic lands and beautiful scenery, and encounters with strange peoples and dangerous wildlife. Theyconducted philosophical and political debates in print about slavery and the French Revolution, and their writing often affords unexpected insights into the writers themselves. This anthology brings together the best writing from authors such as Daniel Defoe, Celia Fiennes, Mary Wollstonecraft,Olaudah Equiano, Mungo Park, and many others, to provide a comprehensive selection from this emerging literary genre.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Bohls is the author of Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 (1995). Ian Duncan has edited editions by Conan Doyle, John Buchan, and Walter Scott for Oxford World's Classics and is the author of Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2005).

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Note on the Texts	xxviii
Select Bibliography	xxx
Chronology	xxxvi
TRAVEL WRITING
PART I. EUROPE AND ASIA MINOR
Classical Ground
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (1705)	5	(6)
Joseph Addison
Letters from the Levant (1813)	11	(2)
John Galt
Debating the Tour
The Gentleman's Magazine: `Of Travelling' (1731)	13	(1)
The Grand Tour (1756)	14	(4)
Thomas Nugent
Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel (1775)	18	(2)
Richard Hurd
Society and Sentiment
Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland (1764)	20	(9)
James Boswell
Travels through France and Italy (1766)	29	(3)
Tobias Smollett
A View of Society and Manners in Italy (1781)	32	(4)
John Moore
Observations in a Journey through Italy (1789)	36	(4)
Hester Lynch Piozzi
Revolutionary Tourism
Travels, during the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789 (1792)	40	(8)
Arthur Young
Letters from France (1790--1796)	48	(9)
Helen Maria Williams
A Journey made in the Summer of 1794 (1795)	57	(3)
Ann Radcliffe
Narrative of a Residence in Belgium (1817)	60	(5)
Charlotte Anne Eaton
Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk (1816)	65	(3)
Walter Scott
Off the Beaten Track
`Embassy Letters' (1716--1718)	68	(9)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople (1789)	77	(5)
Lady Elizabeth Craven
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)	82	(15)
Mary Wollstonecraft
PART II. THE BRITISH ISLES
The State of The Nation
The Diary of Celia Fiennes (c. 1685--1703)	97	(8)
Celia Fiennes
A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724--1726)	105	(11)
Daniel Defoe
A Tour in Ireland (1780)	116	(6)
Arthur Young
The Stranger in Ireland (1806)	122	(4)
John Carr
Rural Rides in the Southern, Western and Eastern Counties of England (1822--1826)	126	(3)
William Cobbett
Picturesque Tourism
Journal in the Lakes (1769)	129	(3)
Thomas Gray
A Guide to the Lakes (1784)	132	(5)
Thomas West
Observations on the River Wye (1782)	137	(3)
William Gilpin
Observations during a Tour in the Lakes (1795)	140	(1)
Ann Radcliffe
Scotland
A Voyage to St Kilda (1698)	141	(8)
Martin Martin
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775); James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1773)	149	(14)
Samuel Johnson
A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland (1777)	163	(4)
Mary Ann Hanway
Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland (1803)	167	(10)
Dorothy Wordsworth
`Malise's Journey to the Trossacks' (from The Spy, 1811)	177	(5)
James Hogg
PART III. AFRICA
The Slave Trade, 1732--1789
A Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea (1732)	182	(4)
John Barbot
A Voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West-Indies (1735)	186	(5)
John Atkins
Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade (1788)	191	(5)
John Newton
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)	196	(10)
Olaudah Equiano
Infant Colony, 1794
Two Voyages to Sierra Leone (1793)	206	(14)
Anna Maria Falconbridge
Explorers, 1790--1822
Travels into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790)	220	(7)
James Bruce
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (1799)	227	(10)
Mungo Park
Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa (1801)	237	(7)
John Barrow
Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire (1818)	244	(6)
James K. Tuckey
Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa (1822)	250	(8)
William J. Burchell
PART IV. THE CARIBBEAN
Natural History and Aesthetics
A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christopher and Jamaica (1707/1725)	258	(7)
Hans Sloane
A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica (1825)	265	(2)
James Hakewill
Working Travellers
Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1790)	267	(13)
John Gabriel Stedman
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)	280	(5)
Olaudah Equiano
The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave (1831)	285	(11)
Mary Prince
Planters
A Descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica (1790)	296	(7)
William Beckford
Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834)	303	(11)
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Ladies
Journal of a Lady of Quality (1774--1776)	314	(11)
Janet Schaw
Journal of a Residence in Jamaica (1801--1805)	325	(10)
Maria Nugent
PART V. NORTH AMERICA
Surveyors and Explorers
A New Voyage to Carolina (1709)	335	(3)
John Lawson
A Voyage Round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea (1726)	338	(3)
George Shelvocke
History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina (1728)	341	(9)
William Byrd
Travels Through North and South Carolina (1791)	350	(13)
William Bartram
A Journey from Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean (1795)	363	(9)
Samuel Hearne
Voyages through North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans (1801)	372	(5)
Alexander Mackenzie
Narrative of his Explorations in Western America (1784--1812)	377	(12)
David Thompson
Manners and Morals
Travels through the States of North America (1799)	389	(4)
Isaac Weld
Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America (1803)	393	(6)
John Davis
Memoirs of an American Lady (1807)	399	(5)
Anne Grant
A Year's Residence in the United States of America (1818)	404	(3)
William Cobbett
Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)	407	(15)
Frances Trollope
PART VI. AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC
Privateers, 1680--1744
A New Voyage Round the World (1697--1703)	422	(7)
William Dampier
A Cruising Voyage Round the World (1712)	429	(5)
Woodes Rogers
A Voyage Round the World by George Anson (1748)	434	(7)
Richard Walter
Benjamin Robins
The Cook Expeditions, 1768--1780
The Voyage of the Endeavour (1768--1771)	441	(10)
James Cook
Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks (1770)	451	(3)
Joseph Banks
A Voyage Round the World (1777)	454	(6)
George Forster
The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure (1772--1775)	460	(1)
James Cook
The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery (1776--1780)	461	(4)
James Cook
Colonizing New South Wales, 1788--1791
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (1790)	465	(2)
Hiram Wood
An Historical Journal of Transactions at Port Jackson (1793)	467	(3)
John Hunter
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Part Jackson (1793)	470	(8)
Watkin Tench
The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner (1822)	478	(8)
John Nicol
A Voyage Round the World (1795)	486	(3)
Mary Ann Parker
The Coming of the Missionaries, 1796--1824
A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean (1799)	489	(1)
William Wilson
Narrative of a Tour through Hawaii, or Owhyhee (1826)	490	(5)
William Ellis
Explanatory Notes	495