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George Sand recounts the story of her 1838 winter in Majorca, a winter she passed in the company of Frederick Chopin. She describes the natural beauties of Majorca as well as the rumblings of approaching war.
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The extraordinary accomplishments in the travel writing and photography of Lady Brassey are the subject of Nancy Micklewright's study. It has to be understood that Lady Brassey never thought of herself as anything other than a normal woman of her period and class.
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Early modern Europe was obsessed with borders and travel, concepts that appealed and appalled in equal measure. Adopting a broad cultural approach, this... Læs mere
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A wide-ranging study of women's travel writing between 1714 and 1789, including the writings of elite women on sensitive diplomatic missions, working... Læs mere
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This new collection assembles seven accounts of women who visited and... Læs mere
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This new collection assembles seven accounts of women who visited and resided in India during 1760 and 1840. This volume includes two texts, Harriet Newell, Memoirs of Mrs Harriet Newell (1815) and Eliza Fay, Original Letters from India (1817).
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This new collection assembles seven accounts of women who visited and resided in India between 1760 and 1840. This final volume includes a text by Mary Sherwood called The Life of Mrs Sherwood (1854).
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In 1910, Dr Hackmann started on a lengthy tour throughout Mongolia, China, Japan, Cambodia, Siam, and India, studying Buddhism and other Eastern Religions, Shintoism and Taoism. He returned to London in the spring of 1911, and published this book.
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This book provides translated selections from the writings of Muhammad Ibn Othman al-Miknasi (d. 1799). The only writings by an Arab-Muslim in the pre-modern period that present a comparative perspective, his travelogues provide unique insight with in to Christendom and Islam.
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This book focuses on a variety of travellers, men and women, to chart the fascinating variety of styles and approaches which... Læs mere