Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)

Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 14
Note on the Texts......Page 29
Select Bibliography......Page 31
Chronology......Page 37
TRAVEL WRITING......Page 42
PART I. EUROPE AND ASIA MINOR......Page 44
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (1705)......Page 46
Letters from the Levant (1813)......Page 52
The Gentleman’s Magazine: ‘Of Travelling’ (1731)......Page 54
The Grand Tour (1756)......Page 55
Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel (1775)......Page 59
Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland (1764)......Page 61
Travels through France and Italy (1766)......Page 70
A View of Society and Manners in Italy (1781)......Page 73
Observations in a Journey through Italy (1789)......Page 77
Travels, during the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789 (1792)......Page 81
Letters from France (1790–1796)......Page 89
A Journey made in the Summer of 1794 (1795)......Page 98
Narrative of a Residence in Belgium (1817)......Page 101
Paul’s Letters to his Kinsfolk (1816)......Page 106
‘Embassy Letters’ (1716–1718)......Page 109
A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople (1789)......Page 118
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)......Page 123
PART II. THE BRITISH ISLES......Page 137
The Diary of Celia Fiennes (c.1685–1703)......Page 138
A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724–1726)......Page 146
A Tour in Ireland (1780)......Page 157
The Stranger in Ireland (1806)......Page 163
Rural Rides in the Southern, Western and Eastern Counties of England (1822–1826)......Page 167
Journal in the Lakes (1769)......Page 170
A Guide to the Lakes (1784)......Page 173
Observations on the River Wye (1782)......Page 178
Observations during a Tour in the Lakes (1795)......Page 181
A Voyage to St Kilda (1698)......Page 182
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775); The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1773)......Page 190
A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland (1777)......Page 204
Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland (1803)......Page 208
‘Malise’s Journey to the Trossacks’ (from The Spy, 1811)......Page 218
PART III. AFRICA......Page 222
A Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea (1732)......Page 223
A Voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West–Indies (1735)......Page 227
Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade (1788)......Page 232
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)......Page 237
Two Voyages to Sierra Leone (1793)......Page 247
Travels into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790)......Page 261
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (1799)......Page 268
Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa (1801)......Page 278
Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire (1818)......Page 285
Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa (1822)......Page 291
PART IV. THE CARIBBEAN......Page 298
A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christopher and Jamaica (1707/1725)......Page 299
A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica (1825)......Page 306
Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1790)......Page 308
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)......Page 321
The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave (1831)......Page 326
A Descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica (1790)......Page 337
Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834)......Page 344
Journal of a Lady of Quality (1774–1776)......Page 355
Journal of a Residence in Jamaica (1801–1805)......Page 366
PART V. NORTH AMERICA......Page 375
A New Voyage to Carolina (1709)......Page 376
A Voyage Round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea (1726)......Page 379
History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina (1728)......Page 382
Travels Through North and South Carolina (1791)......Page 391
A Journey from Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean (1795)......Page 404
Voyages through North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans (1801)......Page 413
Narrative of his Explorations in Western America (1784–1812)......Page 418
Travels through the States of North America (1799)......Page 430
Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America (1803)......Page 434
Memoirs of an American Lady (1807)......Page 440
A Year’s Residence in the United States of America (1818)......Page 445
Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)......Page 448
PART VI. AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC......Page 462
A New Voyage Round the World (1697–1703)......Page 463
A Cruising Voyage Round the World (1712)......Page 470
A Voyage Round the World by George Anson (1748)......Page 475
2. THE COOK EXPEDITIONS, 1768–1780......Page 481
The Voyage of the Endeavour (1768–1771)......Page 482
Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks (1770)......Page 492
A Voyage Round the World (1777)......Page 495
The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure (1772–1775)......Page 501
The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery (1776–1780)......Page 502
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (1790)......Page 506
An Historical Journal of Transactions at Port Jackson (1793)......Page 508
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson (1793)......Page 511
The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner (1822)......Page 519
A Voyage Round the World (1795)......Page 527
A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean (1799)......Page 530
Narrative of a Tour through Hawaii, or Owhyhee (1826)......Page 531
Explanatory Notes......Page 536