Travel Writing

Records and describes first-person records of journeys in the frontier and early settlement periods which survive in both manuscript and print. Geographically, it deals with the states once part of the Old Northwest Territory--Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota--and with Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska.

Also available at the Internet Archive.

A Ph.D. dissertation available from ProQuest's Dissertations and Theses database.

Lists over 1100 works of travels in the South from 1865-1955.

Bibliographies for scholars in search of eyewitness evidence of life in southern commonwealths.

A bibliography of English language travellers' accounts of Latin America in the nineteenth century. It focuses on the countries of South America from Colombia and Venezuela to Argentin and Chile (excluding British, French, and Dutch Guiana). Also available at the Internet Archive.

Over 900 annotated entries that focus on the period of discovery and exploration.

This bibliography lists guide books, geographies, diaries, memoires, autobiographies, collections of private and public papers and documents, a few histories, and a number of fictional accounts which contain useful descriptive passages. English translations of books originally published in other languages are included. Nearly 1200 titles are listed, arranged alphabetically by author, and numbered consecutively. Also available at the Internet Archive.

Also available at the Internet Archive

A selected annotated listing of 580 published personal writings of Englishmen involved in India from 1583. The term British India is used in a broad historical sense to include Afghanistan, Nepal, Tibet, and Burma during the relevant periods of British influence.

The bibliography volume of the three-volume East Looks West: East European Travel Writing in Europe collates travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000.

More than 1800 titles, organized chronologically, with an index of authors and places.

A bibliography of travel literature published before 1900. The annotations summarize each title concisely and note significant features. An author index is organized by occupation and by the country visited.

Over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, drawn from a wide range of sources and including both printed books and periodical contributions

Siglos XVI-XVII at Main (Gardner) Stacks G287.A12 G37 1998
Siglo XVIII at Main (Gardner) Stacks G287.A12 G37 1997
1900-1936 at Main (Gardner) Stacks G465.A12 G37 1997

Over 1500 annotated entries of eye-witness accounts of Russians who traveled to the "Christian East." This is defined by the authors as "those areas associated in Russian thinking with the origiinss of Orthodox Christianity, and the geographic jurisdiction of the Eastern Patriarchies of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem."

Also available online from the University of Wisconsin.

Journal article that is available online.