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This document provides a selected bibliography of books related to travel writing and travel literature in English. It lists over 100 sources, including books on the history of travel writing, biographies of travel writers, analyses of gender and travel, postcolonial perspectives on travel narratives, and guides to writing travel books and articles. The bibliography covers works published from the 15th century through 2004 and represents a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the genre of travel writing.

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Travel Writing

This document provides a selected bibliography of books related to travel writing and travel literature in English. It lists over 100 sources, including books on the history of travel writing, biographies of travel writers, analyses of gender and travel, postcolonial perspectives on travel narratives, and guides to writing travel books and articles. The bibliography covers works published from the 15th century through 2004 and represents a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the genre of travel writing.

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Selected Bibliography in English

Books
Aughton, Peter. Resolution : the story of Captain Cook's second voyage of
discovery. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.
910.45 A91
Barrington, George. George Barrington's Voyage to Botany Bay : retelling a
convict's travel narrative of the 1790s. London ; New York : Leicester University
Press, 2001.
994.4102B B27 R
Beauvoir, Simone de. America day by day. Berkeley : University of California
Press, c1999.
848.1 B38 D C
Blanton, Casey. Travel writing : the self and the world. New York : Twayne
Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1997.
820.993355 B6
Bohls, Elizabeth A. Women travel writers and the language of aesthetics, 17161818. Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
910.4082 B6

Bradburd, Daniel. Being there : the necessity of fieldwork. Washington, D.C. ;


London : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1998.
305.8915 B798 b
Brosse, Jacques. Great voyages of exploration : the golden age of discovery in the
Pacific. Buderim, Qld. : Bateman, 1983.
LB 910.94 B87
Brown, Christopher K. Encyclopedia of travel literature. Santa Barbara, Calif. :
ABC-CLIO, c2000.
R 910.2 B877 e
Caesar, Terry. Forgiving the boundaries : home as abroad in American travel
writing. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1995.
810.97 C12
Campbell, Mary B. Wonder & science : imagining worlds in early modern
Europe. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 1999.
001.10940903 C189 w
Charnley, Joy. Pierre Bayle : reader of travel literature. Bern ; [New York] : P.
Lang, c1998.
910.92 C483 p
Clapp, Susannah. With Chatwin : portrait of a writer. London : Jonathan Cape,
1997.
829.1 C49 D1 C
Clifford, N. J. "A truthful impression of the country" : British and American
travel writing in china, 1880---1949. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan
Press, c2001.
915.1044 C638 t
Cronin, Michael. Across the lines : travel, language, translation. Cork, Ireland :
Cork University Press, 2000.
400 C947 a
Cronin, Michael. Translation and globalization. London : Routledge, 2003.
418.02 c94
Cropp, Richard. Writing travel books and articles. North Vancouver ; Bellingham,
Washington : Self Counsel Press, c1997.
808.06691 C9
David, Robert G. The Arctic in the British imagination, 1818-1914. Manchester :
Manchester University Press, 2000.
998 D2
Dissanayake, Wimal. Self and colonial desire : travel writings of V.S. Naipaul.
New York : Peter Lang, c1993.
829.9729831 N15 D1 D

Dorr, David F. A colored man round the world. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of
Michigan Press, c1999.
914.0428 D716 c
Dupe, Jeffrey N. British travel writers in China--writing home to a British
public, 1890-1914. Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, c2004.
951 D93
Edmond, Rod. Representing the South Pacific : colonial discourse from Cook to
Gauguin. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
303.4829504 E2
Edwards, Jane. Travel writing in fiction & fact. Portland, Or. : Blue Heron, 1999.
808.06691 E2
Edwards, Justin D. Exotic journeys : exploring the erotics of U.S. travel literature,
1840-1930. Hanover : University of New Hampshire, c2001.
810.993355 e26
Freedgood, Elaine. Victorian writing about risk : imagining a safe England in a
dangerous world. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
828.094 f85
Ghose, Indira. Women traveller's in colonial India : the power of female gaze.
Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1998.
954.0082 G4
GoGwilt, Christopher Lloyd. The invention of the West : Joseph Conrad and the
double-mapping of Europe and empire. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University
Press, 1995.
828.1 c75 d2 g6
Goss, John. The mapmaker's art : an illustrated history of cartography. Skokie,
Ill. : Rand McNally, c1993.
LB 526.09 G67
Gregory, Alexis. The golden age of travel, 1880-1939. London : Cassell, 1998.
LB 910.4 G82
Harper, Lila Marz. Solitary travelers : nineteenth-century women's travel
narratives and the scientific vocation. Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2001.
820.993355 H29
Hibbert, Christopher. The Grand Tour. London, Thames Methuen, 1987.
Mus X 914.04253 H62
Huggan, Graham. The postcolonial exotic : marketing the margins. London ; New
York : Routledge, 2001.
829.093 H891

Hulme, Peter. Remnants of conquest : the Island Caribs and their visitors, 18771998. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
972.9841004974 H915 r
Jarvis, Brian. Postmodern cartographies : the geographical imagination in
contemporary American culture. London : Pluto Press, 1998.
304.23 J38
Jarvis, Robin. Romantic writing and pedestrian travel. Houndmills, Basingstoke,
Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, c2000.
827.09 J38
Jedamski, Doris. Images, self-images and the perception of the other : women
travellers in the Malay Archipelago. [Hull, England : University of Hull, Centre for
South-East Asian Studies], c1995.
915.95043 J45
Lackey, Kris. RoadFrames : the American highway narrative. Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press, c1997.
815.0993355 L14
Lamb, Jonathan. Preserving the self in the south seas, 1680-1840. Chicago, Ill. :
University of Chicago Press, c2001.
820.993355 L21
Leask, Nigel. Curiosity and the aesthetics of travel writing, 1770-1840 : 'from an
antique land. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
820.993355 L43
Lestringant, Frank. Cannibals : the discovery and representation of the cannibal
from Columbus to Jules Verne. Cambridge : Polity Press, 1997.
840.9 L64
Lippard, Lucy R. On the beaten track : tourism, art and place. New York : New
Press, c1999.
338.4791 L76
Lfgren, Orvar. On holiday : a history of vacationing. Berkeley : University of
California Press, c1999.
910.4 L828 o
Meanor, Patrick. Bruce Chatwin. New York : Twayne ; London : Prentice Hall
International, c1997.
829.1 c49 d1 m4
Morris, Jan. The spectacle of Empire : style, effect and the Pax Britannica.
London : Faber, 1982.
LB 909.0971242 M876

Murray, Earl. In the arms of the sky. New York : Forge, 1998.
815.1 m981 c3 i
Nicholl, Charles. Somebody else : Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91. London :
Vintage, 1998.
847.1 R57 D2 N6
Osborne, Peter D. Travelling light : photography, travel and visual culture.
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2000.
778.9991 O8
Parlby, Fanny Parkes. Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque.
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2001.
954 P252 w
Polezzi, Loredana. Translating travel : contemporary Italian travel writing in
English translation. Aldershot : Ashgate , c2001.
910.408951 P765 t
Redford, Bruce. Venice & the grand tour. New Haven : Yale University Press,
1996.
914.53104 R3
Rienits, Thea. Les voyages du Capitaine Cook (Voyages of Captain Cook).
Papeete, Tahiti : ds. du Pacifique, 1971.
910.4 C77 zR
Rooney, Dawn. Angkor observed : a travel anthology of 'those there before'.
Bangkok : Orchid Press, 2001.
915.96 R77 a
Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Royal Geographical Society
illustrated. New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1998.
LB 910.222 R888 r
Russell, Alison. Crossing boundaries : postmodern travel literature. Basingstoke :
Palgrave, 2000.
810.993355 R96
Salak, Kira. Four corners : one woman's solo journey into the heart of Papua
New Guinea. Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, c2001.
B 910.4 S159 f
Sanborn, Geoffrey. The sign of the cannibal : Melville and the making of a
postcolonial reader. Durham, N.C. ; London : Duke University Press, 1998.
813.1 M53 D2 S1
Schweizer, Bernard. Radicals on the road : the politics of English travel writing
in the 1930s. Charlottesville ; London : University Press of Virginia, 2001.
829.0993355 s413 r

Shakespeare, Nicholas. Bruce Chatwin. London : Harvill in association with


Jonathan Cape, 1999.
829.1 c49 d1 s
Shankar, Subramanian. Textual traffic : colonialism, modernity, and the economy
of the text. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2001.
815.0993355 S5
Smith, Sidonie. Moving lives : twentieth-century women's travel writing.
Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.
910.82 S659 m
Spufford, Francis. I may be some time : ice and the English imagination. New
York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
910.911 S7
Swinglehurst, Edmund. The romantic journey : the story of Thomas Cook and
Victorian travel. London : Pica Editions, 1974.
X 385.22 S9
Teng, Emma. Taiwan's imagined geography : Chinese colonial travel writing and
pictures, 1683-1895. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center :
Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004.
915.1249043 T2
Turner, Katherine. British travel writers in Europe, 1750-1800 : authorship,
gender, and national identity. Aldershot : Ashgate, 2001.
826.0993355 T94
Tzanaki, Rosemary. Mandeville's medieval audiences : a study on the reception of
the book of Sir John Mandeville (1371-1550). Aldershot, Hampshire, England ;
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2003.
915.042 T998 m
Vivies, Jean. English travel narratives in the eighteenth century : exploring
genres. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2002.
825.0993355 v8
Ward, Julian. Xu Xiake (1587-1641) : the art of travel writing. Richmond, Surrey :
Curzon Press, 2001.
895.161 X8 D2 W
Waugh, Evelyn. Waugh abroad : collected travel writing. New York ; Toronto :
Everyman's Library, 2003.
829.1 W354 B4 S
Wesley, Marilyn C. Secret journeys : the trope of women's travel in American
literature. Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1999.
810.993355 W5

Wigal, Donald. Historic maritime maps used for historic exploration, 1290 1699. New York : Parkstone Press, c2000.
LB 526.09 W654
Wright, Sarah Bird. Edith Wharton's travel writing : the making of a connoisseur.
815.1 W55 D1 W9
Yeazell, Ruth Bernard. Harems of the mind : passages of Western art and
literature. New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2000.
700.455 Y41 h
Young, Gavin. Eye on the world. London, England : Viking, 1998.
LB 910.4 Y7 e
Always elsewhere : travels of the Black Atlantic. London ; New York : Cassell,
1998.
910.8996073 A47 P51
Amazons, savages, and machiavels : travel and colonial writing in English, 15501630 : an anthology. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
823.0993355 A48 H12
An anthology of women's travel writings. Manchester ; New York : Manchester
University Press, 2002.
910.82 A62 F75
Anthropological locations : boundaries and grounds of a field science. Berkeley :
University of California Press, c1997.
301.0723 A62 G97
The Art of travel : essays on travel writing. London, England ; Totowa, N.J. : Frank
Cass, 1982.
809.93355 A78
Auto/ethnography : rewriting the self and the social. Oxford ; New York : Berg,
1997.
305.8001 A93
The best American travel writing 2001. Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin
Company, 2001.
815.0899291 B56 A01
The Cambridge companion to travel writing. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
820.0993355 C17
Caribbeana : an anthology of English literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1999.
829.972908 C27

A certain somewhere : writers on the places they remember. New York : Random
House, 2002.
815.087 C41
Cultural encounters : European travel writing in the 1930s. New York : Berghahn
Books, 2002.
910.4 C96 B95
Dead reckoning : great adventure writing from the golden age of exploration,
1800-1900. New York ; London : W.W. Norton, c2003.
910.409034 D27 W62
Desert travellers : from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence. Durham : Astene, 2000.
915.6 D45
Early modern tales of Orient : a critical anthology. London ; New York :
Routledge, 1999.
915.60415 E12 P44
Exploration & exchange : a South Seas anthology, 1680-1900. Chicago : University
of Chicago Press, 2000.
995 E96 L11
The first West : writing from the American frontier, 1776-1860. New York :
Oxford University Press, 2002.
812.08 F5
From the outer world. Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : Harvard University
Press, 1997.
973.9 F93
Gender, genre, and identity in women's travel writing. New York : P. Lang,
c2004.
820.99332 G3
The Granta book of travel. London : Granta Books, 1998.
808.06691 G763
Hegel after Derrida. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
193.1 H46 D1 B2
In the lands of the Christians : Arabic travel writing in the seventeenth century.
New York : Routledge, 2003.
910.89927 I35
Literature of travel and exploration : an encyclopedia. New York : Fitzroy
Dearborn, 2003.
R 910.403 L7 (v.1 v.3)

Memsahibs abroad : writings by women travellers in nineteenth century India.


Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1998.
827.09933254 M6
The Oxford book of Australian travel writing. Melbourne : Oxford University
Press, 1996.
829.99408 O98
The Picador book of journeys. London : Picador, 2001.
808.849355 P58
The psychoanalysis of race. New York : Columbia University Press, c1998.
155.82 P97 L26
The Tempest and its travels. London : Reaktion, 2000.
823.1 S52 C2 t2+h9
Touring cultures : transformations of travel and theory. London : Routledge,
1997.
338.4791 T72 R
The Tourist city. New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, c1999.
338.4791 T72 J92
Travels, explorations, and empires : writings from the era of imperial expansion,
1770-1835. London : Pickering & Chatto, 2001.
910.409033 T77 F96 (v.1 v.8)
Travel fact and travel fiction : studies on fiction, literary tradition, scholarly
discovery, and observation in travel writing. Leiden [The Netherlands] : E.J. Brill,
1994.
809.93355 T7
Travel writing and empire : postcolonial theory in transit. London ; New York :
Zed Books : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.
820.993591 T7
Travel writing and the female imaginary. Bologna : Ptron, 2001.
809.89287 T7
Travel writing : major writers travel the world. Harlow, Essex : Addison-Wesley
Longman, 1995.
808.849355 T7 M
The Tourist's gaze : travellers to Ireland, 1800-2000. Cork, Ireland : Cork
University Press, 2001.
914.15048 T72 H78
Voyages and visions : towards a cultural history of travel. London : Reaktion,
1999.
910 V97

With women's eyes : visitors to the New World, 1775-1918. Norman, Okla. :
University of Oklahoma Press, 1999, c1993.
917.304 W82 T58
Women at sea : travel writing and the margins of Caribbean discourse. New
York ; Basingstoke : Pelgrave, 2001.
917.2904082 W87 P22
The writer's handbook guide to travel writing. London : Macmillan, 2004.
808.06691 W9 T
Writes of passage : reading travel writing. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
808.06691 W9

Periodicals
The Aberdeen magazine for the year. Aberdeen [Scotland]: printed by Francis
Douglas, 1761.
Click to view the book via Eighteenth century collections online
The Cambridge magzine: or, Universal repository of arts, sciences, and the belles
lettres. London [England ] : printed for T[homas]. Evans, in Paternoster-Row, 1769.
Click to view the book via Eighteenth century collections online
The English lyceum, or, Choice of pieces in prose and verse [electronic resource]
: selected from the best periodical papers, magazines, pamphlets and other
British publications, published by J.W. v. Archenholtz. Hamburgh [i.e. Hamburg,
Germany] 1787. : printed for the editor, and in commission at Mr. Bohn, [1787-1788]
Click to view the book via Eighteenth century collections online
Journeys. New York : Berghahn Books, Inc.
Jun 1, 2000910 J86
Click to start searching via Infotrac
New literary history. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
v.2 (1970) - v.35 (2004) with gaps
S 800 N4 L7 H6
Brooke-Davis, Adam and Gerd Hurm. At the Margins of Taste and the Center of
Modernity: Mark Twain's "Cannibalism in the Cars" in Winter 1998,Volume 29,
Number 1, pp. 47-65
Click to start searching via Project Muse
Studies in philology. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
v.71 (1974)S 400 S93 P56
Terence N Bowers. Margery Kempe as traveller, in Winter 2000. Vol. 97, Iss. 1; pp.
1-28.
Click to start searching via Academic Search Premier or ProQuest.

Studies in travel writing : papers from the Essex symposium on "writing


travels." Nottingham : Nottingham Trent University,
v.8 (2004)S 808.06691 S9 T
Wasafiri. London : Instructa,
no.21 (1995)S 808.8 W3
No. 34 (Autumn 2001) special issue, Travellers tales : alternative traditions.

Subject Headings
Travel Writing
Travel Writing -- Bio-Bibliography -- Dictionaries
Travel Writing -- Drama
Travel Writing -- Encyclopedia
Travel Writing -- Handbooks, Manuals, Etc.
Travel Writing -- History
Travel Writing -- History -- 17th Century
Travel Writing -- History -- 18th Century
Travel Writing -- History -- 19th Century
Travel Writing -- History -- 20th Century
Travel Writing -- Humor
Travel Writing -- Oceania
Travel Writing -- Periodicals
Travelers' Writings
Travelers' Writings, American
Travelers' Writings, American -- History And Criticism
Travelers' Writings, American -- Jerusalem -- History And Criticism
Traveler's Writings, Arabic -- Early Works To 1800
Travelers' Writings, Arabic -- Social Aspects
Travelers' Writings, Australian
Travelers' Writings, British
Travelers' Writings, British -- History And Criticism
Travelers Writings -- Caribbean Area
Travelers' Writings, Chinese
Travelers' Writings, Chinese -- History And Criticism
Travelers' Writings, Chinese -- Japan -- History And Criticism
Travelers' Writings -- Editing -- Congresses
Travelers' Writings -- Encyclopedia
Travelers' Writings -- Encyclopedias
Travelers' Writings, English
Travelers' Writings, English -- 17th Century
Travelers' Writings, English -- 18th Century
Travelers' Writings, English -- 19th Century
Travelers' Writings, English -- 20th Century
Travelers' Writings, English -- Africa -- History And Criticism

Travelers' Writings, English -- America -- History And Criticism


Travelers' Writings, English -- Bio-Bibliography -- Dictionaries
Travelers' Writings, English -- Early Works To 1800
Travelers' Writings, English -- England -- Early Works To 1800
Travelers' Writings, English -- History And Criticism
Travelers' Writings, English -- Middle East
Travelers' Writings, English -- Turkey -- History And Criticism
Travelers' Writings, English -- Women Authors -- History And Criticism
Travelers' Writings, European
Travelers' Writings, European -- History And Criticism
Travelers' Writings, European -- Jerusalem -- History And Criticism
Travelers' Writings, French
Travelers' Writings, French -- History And Criticism
Travelers' Writings -- Great Britain -- Early Works To 1800
Travelers' Writings -- History And Criticism
Travelers' Writings -- History And Criticism -- Periodicals
Travelers' Writings, Italian -- Translations Into English -- History And Criticism
Travelers' Writings, Japanese -- History And Criticism
Travelers' Writings, Russian -- History And Criticism

Reference Dept., 7/2005

Selected Bibliography in English 
 
 
Books 
 
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Bradburd, Daniel.  Being there : the necessity of fieldwork.  Washington, D.C. ; 
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Michigan Press, c1999. 
914.0428 D716 c
Hulme, Peter.  Remnants of conquest : the Island Caribs and their visitors, 1877-
1998.  Oxford : Oxford University Press,
Murray, Earl.  In the arms of the sky.  New York : Forge, 1998. 
815.1 m981 c3 i 
 
Nicholl, Charles.  Somebody else : Arth
Shakespeare, Nicholas.  Bruce Chatwin.  London : Harvill in association with 
Jonathan Cape, 1999. 
829.1 c49 d1 s 
 
Shank
Wigal, Donald.  Historic maritime maps used for historic exploration, 1290 - 
1699.  New York : Parkstone Press, c2000. 
LB 5
A certain somewhere : writers on the places they remember. New York : Random 
House, 2002. 
815.087 C41 
 
Cultural encounter
Memsahibs abroad : writings by women travellers in nineteenth century India.  
Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1998. 
827.09
With women's eyes : visitors to the New World, 1775-1918. Norman, Okla. : 
University of Oklahoma Press, 1999, c1993. 
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