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147–48Bordeaux Pilgrim, Itinerary from Bordeaux to Jerusalem in 333–334 CE (London 1887)
148–49 Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama, trans. W. M. Thackston, in Nasir-i Khusraw’s Book of Travels (Costa Mesa, CA, 2010)
149–52Pietro Casola, Canon Pietro Casola’s Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the Year 1494, ed. Margaret Newett (Manchester 1907)
152–54François-René, Viscount de Chateaubriand, Travels to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, trans. Frederic Schoberl, Vol. II (London 1835)
154–55Elie Wiesel, in Telling the Tale: A Tribute to Elie Wiesel (St Louis, MO, 1993). First published in Forverts magazine. Trans. Irving Abrahamson (Tel Aviv 1967) Copyright © Forverts magazine 1967
157–58Thomas Manning, Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and Thomas Manning to Lhasa, ed. Clements Markham (London 1876)
158–59Ekai Kawaguchi, Three Years in Tibet, The Shramana Ekai Kawaguchi (Madras 1909)
159–60Francis Younghusband, India and Tibet (London 1920)
160–62Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet (London 1952). Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Copyright © 1952 Heinrich Harrer
164–65Thomas Platter, Thomas Platter’s Travels in England 1599, trans. Clare Williams (London 1937)
165–66César de Saussure, A foreign view of England in the reigns of George I and George II: The letters of Monsieur César de Saussure to his family, trans. Madame Van Muyden (London 1902)
166–66Xia Qinggao, The Hai-lu, in The Great Chinese Travelers, ed. Jeanette Mirsky (New York 1964)
167–68Louis Simond, Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811, Vol. I (Edinburgh 1815)
168–69Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, Tour in England, Ireland, and France in the Years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829 (Philadelphia 1833)
170Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Vol. I (Boston 1854)
171Hippolyte Taine, Notes on England (New York 1885)
172–73Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (London 1956). First published by Allan Wingate Ltd. Copyright © Samuel Selvon 1956
175Richard Wynn, An Account of the Journey of the Prince’s Servants into Spain, A.D. 1623, in The Autobiography & Correspondence of Sir Simonds D’Ewes, Bart., during the Reigns of James I and Charles I, ed. J. O. Halliwell, Vol. II (London 1845)
176Richard Ford, Handbook for Travellers in Spain (London 1855)
176–78William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller (New York 1859)
178–79Hans Christian Andersen, In Spain and a Visit to Portugal (Boston 1855)
180Leon Trotsky, My Life (New York 1930)
182–83Ibn Battuta, Travels in Asia and Africa 1325–1354, trans. and ed. H. A. R. Gibb (London 1929)
183–84Ludovico of Varthema The Itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508, trans. John Winter Jones (London 1863)
184–86Carsten Niebuhr, Travels through Arabia, and other countries in the East, trans. Robert Heron (Edinburgh 1792)
186–90Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah (London 1855–56)
190–92Hernán Cortés, Cartas y relaciones de Hernan Cortés al emperador Carlos V, ed. Pascual de Gayangos (Paris 1866)
192–94Frances Calderón de la Barca, Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years in that Country (London 1843)
194–96Graham Greene, The Lawless Roads (London 1939). Published by Longman Ltd. Copyright © Graham Greene 1939
198–200Adam Olearius, The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein to the Grand Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia (London 1669)
200–01Eugène Labaume, quoted in The Saturday Magazine Supplement for October 1833, Vol. III (London 1833)
201–04Marquis de Custine, Russia (New York 1854)
204–06Bernard Pares, Moscow Admits a Critic (London 1936)
208–09William Francklin, Observations made on a Tour from Bengal to Persia (Calcutta 1788)
209–11Bayard Taylor, A Visit to India, China and Japan in the Year 1853 (London 1855)
211–13John H. MacCallum Scott, Eastern Journey (London 1939)
213–15V. S. Naipaul, An Area of Darkness (London 1964). Copyright © 1964, 1992, by V. S. Naipaul. Reprinted by Permission of Vintage Canada/Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited.
217–18William Beckford, Italy Sketches (Paris 1833)
218–19James Fenimore Cooper, Gleanings in Europe: Italy by An American (Philadelphia 1838)
220–21T.Q. (Samuel Young), A Wall- Street bear in Europe: with his familiar foreign journal of a tour through portions of England, Scotland, France and Italy (New York 1855)
222–23Norman Lewis, Naples ’44 (London 1956). Copyright © 1978. Norman Lewis. Reprinted by permission of Da Capo Press, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group
225–26Jasper and Peter Sluyter Danckaerts, Journal of a Voyage to New York in 1679–80 (New York 1867)
226–27Adlard Welby, A visit to North America and the English settlements in Illinois, in Early Western Travels, ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites, Vol. 12 (New York 1905)
227–29Charles Dickens, American Notes (New York 1883)
229–31John Walter, First Impressions of America (London 1867)
231–33Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day, trans. Carol Cosman, Univ of California Press (Los Angeles 1996). First published as L’Amérique au jour le jour, 1947 © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1954
235–36Rabban Bar Sauma, in The Monks of Kublai Khan, trans Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (London 1928)
237–38Thomas Coryat, Coryat’s Crudities: Hastily gobled up in five moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany and the Netherlands, Vol. I (Glasgow 1905)
238–39Arthur Young, Arthur Young’s Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 (London 1906)
239–41Queen Victoria, Journal. RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ (W) 20 August 1855 www.queenvictoriasjournals.org. © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2012
241–43Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (New York 1869)
243–44Anton Chekhov, Letters of Anton Chekhov, ed. Constance Garnett (London 1920)
244–46Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (New York 1933)
248–50Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary Containing his Ten Yeeres Travell through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland & Ireland (London 1617)
250–51Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. II (London 1789)
251–52Albert Camus, ‘Death in the Soul’ (1938), in Lyrical and Critical Essays, trans. Philip Thody (London 1968). Copyright © 1958, by Editions Gallimard. Reprinted by Permission of Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited
254–55John White, Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales (London 1790)
255–56Maria Graham, Journal of a Voyage to Brazil, and Residence there during part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823 (London 1824)
257Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Travels in the South of Europe and in Brazil: with a voyage up the Amazon, and its tributary the Xingú (London 1849)
258–59Annie Allnutt Brassey, Our Voyage in the Sunbeam: Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (London 1879)
259–60Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure (London 1933). Published by the Alden Press. Copyright © Peter Fleming 1933
262–63Marvels of Rome, Or, A Picture of the Golden City, trans. Francis Morgan Nichols (London 1889)
264–65Pero Tafur, Travels and Adventures of Pero Tafur 1435–1439, ed. E. Denison Ros
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265–66Michel de Montaigne, The Journal of Montaigne’s Travels in Italy by way of Switzerland and Germany in 1580 and 1581, trans. W. G. Walters, Vol. II (London 1903)
266–67Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life and Writings (London 1796)
267–69Charles Dickens, Pictures from Italy (London 1846)
269–70Oscar Wilde, in Letters of Oscar Wilde, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis (London 1962)
270–71Eleanor Clark, Rome and a Villa (London 1953), pp. 35–36. Copyright © 1992 by Eleanor Clark. Reprinted by HarperCollins Publishers
273–74Nathaniel Wraxall, A Tour through some of the northern parts of Europe, particularly Copenhagen, Stockholm and Petersburgh in a series of letters (London 1776)
274–76Robert Ker Porter, Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden: During the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808 (Philadelphia 1809)
276–77R. B. Paul, Journal of a Tour to Moscow, in the Summer of 1836 (London 1836)
277–79Marquis de Custine, Russia (New York 1854)
279–80Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, The Glitter and the Gold (London 1954)
281Corliss Lamont, Russia Day by Day (New York 1933)
283–85Ruy González de Clavijo, Embassy to Tamerlane, trans. Guy Le Strange (London 1928)
285–86Emperor Babur, The Babur-nama in English, trans. Annette Beveridge (London 1921)
288–89John Audubon, Audubon’s Western Journal, 1849–1850: Being the MS. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold fields of California (Cleveland 1906)
289–90Kume Kunitake, Records of My Visits to America and Europe 1871–1873 (Tokyo 1876)
290–92Ellen G. Hodges, Surprise Land: A Girl’s Letters from the West (Boston 1887)
292–94Enrico Caruso, The Sketch magazine (London 1906)
294–96Helen Perry, The Human Be-In (New York 1970). Published by Basic Books. Copyright © Helen Perry 1970
298John White, Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales (London 1790)
298–300Anthony Trollope, Australia and New Zealand (London 1876)
300–02Mark Twain, Following the Equator (New York 1897)
302D. H. Lawrence, Kangaroo (London 1923)
304–05Leo Africanus, The History and Description of Africa, trans. Robert Brown, Vol. I (London 1896)
305–07René Caillié, Revue des deux mondes. Journal des Voyages, Series II, Vol. I (Paris 1830)
307–09Heinrich Barth, Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa (New York 1857)
311–12John Saris, The Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613, ed. Ernest M. Satow (London 1900)
312–13Ernest Mason Satow, A Diplomat in Japan (Philadelphia 1921)
313–15Isabella Bird, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (London 1880)
315–16Mrs Hugh [Mary Crawford] Fraser, Letters from Japan: A Record of Modern Life in the Island Empire (London 1899)
316–19Marie Stopes, Journal from Japan (London 1910)
319–20Fosco Maraini, Meeting with Japan, trans. Eric Mosbacher (London 1959). Published by Hutchinson Ltd. Copyright © Fosco Maraini 1959
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324–25Pietro Casola, Canon Pietro Casola’s Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the year 1494, ed. Margaret Newett (Manchester 1907)
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335–36Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters (London 1789)
336–38Frances Trollope, Vienna and the Austrians: with some account of a journey through Swabia, Bavaria, the Tyrol, and the Salzbourg, Vol. II (London 1838)
338–40Anton Chekhov, Letters of Anton Chekhov, ed. Constance Garnett (London 1920)
340–41Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Time of Gifts (London 1977). Copyright © 1977 Patrick Leigh Fermor. Reproduced by permission of John Murray Press, an imprint of Hodder and Stoughton Limited
343–45Adlard Welby, A visit to North America and the English settlements in Illinois, in Early Western Travels, ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites, Vol. 12 (New York 1905)
345–47Theodore Dwight, Travels in America (Glasgow 1848)
347–48Jan Morris, ‘The Morning After: Washington D.C. 1974’. First published in Travels, by Faber & Faber (New York 1980). Copyright © 1974 Jan Morris
INDEX
All page numbers refer to the 2019 print edition.
In view of the wide variety of alternative names and spellings across the entries in this book, the index refers to commonly used modern forms, rather than the varieties used by the contributors. Numbers in bold refer to main entries for each city.
Abbasid dynasty 40
Abu Bakr, Caliph 187
Acropolis, Athens 30
Adelbert, Prince of Prussia 257
Admiralty House, Sydney 301
Afghanistan 47
Al-Fustat see Cairo
al-Hamawi, Yaqut 42
al-Idrisi, Muhammad 14
Al-Mansur, Caliph 40, 43, 45
al-Muqtafi, Caliph 41
Al-Qahira see Cairo
al-Qarafa cemetery, Cairo 73
Albany, New York 225
Albert, Prince 239
Alexander I, Tsar 274
Alexander the Great 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 33, 282, 285
Alexandria 12–19, 284
Ali, Caliph 187
American Journey (Theodore Dwight) 345
American War of Independence 224, 226
Amr mosque, Cairo 73
Amsterdam 20–29
An Itinerary Containing his Ten Yeeres Travel (Fynes Moryson) 21
And Quiet Flows the Don (Mikhail Sholokov) 68
Andersen, Hans Christian 178
Andronicos II, Emperor 140
Antwerp 20
Appian Way, Rome 269
Aqaba, Il-Khan 235
Arabia 42
Arabian Nights 18
Arafat (Arifat) mountain 188
Arc de Triomphe 235, 240, 241
Area of Darkness (V. S. Naipaul) 213
Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia 347, 348
Armour & Co., Chicago 83
Arno river 108, 115
Astrakhan 140
Athens 7, 30–39
Audubon, John 288
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Gertrude Stein) 244
Avenue Wenceslaus, Prague 251
Ayyubid empire 70
Aztecs 189, 193
Babur, Emperor 285
Babylon 14
Baghdad 40–48, 139
Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt 279
Balsan, Jacques 279
Baltimore 346
Baptistery, Florence 110, 111
Barth, Heinrich 307
Bastille, Paris 240, 242, 243
Batavia see Jakarta
bath-house 18, 42, 95
Batista, Fulgencio 128
Bayezid I, Sultan 283
Bazaar, Damascus 92, 93, 94
bazaars, see markets, bazaars
Beauvoir, Simone de 122, 231
Beckford, William 217
Beijing (Khanbaliq, Cambaluc, Dadu, Tatu, Beiping, Pekin, Peking) 11, 49–59, 122, 260
Bell, Gertrude 47, 48
Bell, John 54
Benjamin
of Tudela 41, 139
Berlin 60–69
Bethesda Pool 147, 150
Bird, Isabella 119, 132, 313
Black Death 89, 90
Blitz 164
Boboli Gardens, Florence 114, 115
Bois de Boulogne, Paris 240
Bolsheviks 198, 272, 280
Bombay see Mumbai
Bonfini, Antonio 334
Book of Pleasant Journeys into Faraway Lands (al-Idrisi) 14
Book of Travels (Evliya Çelebi) 334
Bordeaux pilgrim 147
Borensztajn, Jozef Hilel 28
Bosch, Hieronymous 180
Bovet, Marie Anne de 105
Bowen Bros, Chicago 81
Bowery, New York 226, 228, 232
Brandenburg 60
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin 60, 62, 68
Brassey, Annie Allnutt 258
Brazil, empire of 253
Brazilian Adventure (Peter Fleming) 259
Brecht, Bertolt 68
Broadway, New York 226, 227, 228, 230, 231, 232
Brooklyn, New York 225
Brunelleschi, Filippo 110
Bryant, William Cullen 176
Burton, Isabel 92
Burton, Richard 186
Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron 31, 35
Byron, Robert 47
Byzantine empire 138, 321
Byzantium see Istanbul
Caesar, Julius 17, 237, 273
Caillié, René 305, 309
Cairo (Al-Fustat, Al-Qahira) 15, 16, 70–78
Calderón de la Barca, Frances 126, 192
California Gold Rush 287, 288
Cambaluc see Beijing
Campanile, Florence 110
Camus, Albert 251
Canals 21, 26, 27, 28, 43, 122, 316, 322, 327, 328, 331
Candia, Crete 326
Canton see Guangzhou
Capitol, Rome 262, 267
Capitol, Washington 343, 344, 347
Capraea, Capri 217, 218, 220
Carnival 221, 267, 325
Caruso, Enrico 292
Casino Royale (Ian Fleming) 135
Casola, Pietro 149, 324
Castro, Fidel 125
Cataygorod (Kitay Gorod), Moscow 199
Cathay 284
Catherine I ‘the Great’, Empress of Russia 273
Çelebi, Evliya 334
Central Park, New York 176, 230
Chamberlain, Neville 248
Champs-Elysées, Paris 235, 240
Changthang 161
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