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edited by Indira Ghose

（Nineteenth-century travels, explorations, and empires : writings from the era of imperial consolidation, 1835-1910 / general editor, Peter J. Kitson, v. 3）

Pickering & Chatto, 2003

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Includes bibliographical references

v. 1-4 numbered: ISBN 1851967605

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Description

A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.

Table of Contents

  • Part I Volume 1: North and South Poles John Balleny, 'Discoveries in the Antarctic Ocean, in February 1839', Journal of the schooner Eliza Scott, commanded by Mr. John Balleny, communicated by Charles Enderby, Esq., Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London (1839)
  • Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 by Charles Wilkes, USN Commodore of the Expedition, member of the American Philosophical Society &c. Condensed and Abridged (1845)
  • James Clark Ross, A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, During the Years 1839-43 (1847)
  • Lieutenant Sherard Osborn, Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal
  • or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51. By Lieut. Sherard Osborn, Commanding H.M.S. Vessel 'Pioneer' (1852)
  • Elisha Kent Kane, The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: A Personal Narrative by Elisha Kent Kane (1854)
  • Charles Dickens, 'The Lost Arctic Voyagers', Household Words, (1854)
  • Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations. The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin 1853, 54, 55 (1856)
  • Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock, The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas: A Narrative of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions by Captain M'Clintock (1859)
  • Captain Albert Hastings Markham, R.N., The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the 'Alert' During the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6 (1878)
  • John Wilson Danenhower, History of the Adventures, Voyage and Terrible Shipwreck of the U.S. Steamer 'Jeannette', in the Polar Seas, together with a full and particular account of the death of Lieutenant De Long, and his brave Shipmates and the rescue of Danenhower, Melville, and their heroic companions carefully compiled from authentic records with numerous Illustrations (1882)
  • George W. Melville, In the Lena Delta. A Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-Commander De Long and His Companions Followed by An Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and A Proposed Method of Reaching the North Pole by George W. Melville Chief Engineer U.S.N., edited by Melville Philips with Maps and Illustrations (1885)
  • Robert Edwin Peary, Northward over the 'Great Ice': A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the interior ice-cap of Northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith- Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the 'Saviksue', or Great Cape-York Meteorites (1898)
  • Frederick A. Cook, Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-1899. A Narrative of the Voyage of the 'Belgica' Among Newly Discovered Lands and Over an Unknown Sea About the South Pole (1900)
  • Robert Falcon Scott, The Voyage of the 'Discovery' ... With 260 full page and smaller illustrations by Dr. E. A. Wilson and other members of the expedition ... panoramas and maps (1905)
  • Robert Edwin Peary, Nearest the Pole. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906 (1907) Volume 2: North America Sir Charles Lyell, A Second Visit to the United States of North America (1849)
  • Alexander Mackay, The Western World
  • or, Travels in the United States in 1846-47: Exhibiting them in their Latest Development Social, Political, and Industrial: Including a Chapter on California (1849)
  • George F. Ruxton, Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains (1849)
  • Isabella Lucy Bird [later Bishop], The Englishwoman in America (1856)
  • William Ferguson, America by River and Rail: or, Notes by the Way on the New World and its People (1856)
  • Thomas H. Gladstone, Kansas
  • or, Squatter Life and Border Warfare in the Far West (1857)
  • Clara Bromley, A Woman's Wanderings in the Western World: A Series of Letters Addressed to Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M.P. by his Daughter Mrs. Bromley (1861)
  • Samuel Phillips Day, Down South
  • or, An Englishman's Experience at the Seat of the American War (1862)
  • Robert Ferguson, America During and After the War (1866)
  • Sir William Francis Butler, The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America (1872)
  • Wyndham-Quin, Earl of Dunraven, The Great Divide: Travels in the Upper Yellowstone in the Summer of 1874 (1876)
  • George Jacob Holyoake, Among the Americans and a Stranger in America (1881)
  • George Augustus Sala, America Revisited: From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Lake Michigan to the Pacific (1883)
  • Emily Faithfull, Three Visits to America (1884)
  • E. Catherine Bates, A Year in the Great Republic (1887)
  • Sir E. W. Watkin, Canada and the States: Recollections 1851 to 1886 (1887)
  • William Garden Blaikie, Summer Suns in the Far West: A Holiday trip to the Pacific Slope (1890)
  • Alexander Craib, America and the Americans: A Narrative of a Tour in the United States and Canada with Chapters on American Home Life (1892)
  • Eyre Crowe, With Thackeray in America (1893)
  • Lady Theodora Guest, A Round Trip in North America (1895)
  • William Archer, America To-Day: Observations and Reflections (1900)
  • Horace Annesley Vachell, Life and Sport on the Pacific Slope (1900)
  • Paul Fountain, The Great Deserts and Forests of North America, with a Preface by W. Hudson (1901)
  • James Bryce, 'America Revisited: The Changes of a Quarter-Century,' The Outlook, (1905)
  • Alfred Russel Wallace, My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions (1908) Volume 3: India Alexander Burnes, Travels into Bokhara
  • Being the Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia
  • Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, from the Sea to Lahore, with Presents from the King of Great Britain
  • Performed under the orders of the Supreme Goverment of India, in the Years 1831, 1832, and 1833 (1834)
  • Fanny Parks, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque, During Four-and-Twenty Years in the East
  • with Revelations of Life in the Zenana (1850)
  • Richard Francis Burton, Scinde
  • or, the Unhappy Valley (1851)
  • William Henry Sleeman, A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, in 1849-50
  • by Direction of the Right Hon. the Earl of Dalhousie, Governor-General. With Private Correspondence relative to the Annexation of Oude to British India (1858)
  • [Mrs. G. Harris], A Lady's Diary of the Siege of Lucknow, Written for the Perusal of Friends at Home (1858)
  • R. M. Coopland, A Lady's Escape from Gwalior and Life in the Fort of Agra during the Mutinies of 1857 (1859)
  • William Howard Russell, My Diary in India, in the year 1858-9 (1860)
  • Emily Eden, 'Up the Country': Letters written to her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India (1866)
  • Emily Eden, Letters from India, ed. by her Niece, the Hon. Eleanor Eden (1872)
  • Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, India Under Ripon: A Private Diary (1909) Volume 4: The Far East George Wingrove Cooke, China: Being 'The Times' Special Correspondence from China in the Years 1857-58 (1859)
  • Capt. William Gill, RE, The River of Golden Sand: The Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah, introductory essay by Col. Henry Yule, CB, RE (1880)
  • Constance Gordon Cumming, Wanderings in China (1886)
  • Archibald Little, Through the Yang-Tse Gorges or Trade and Travel in Western China (1888)
  • Mrs Archibald Little [A. E. N. Bewicke], Intimate China (1899)
  • C. Pemberton Hodgson, A Residence at Nagasaki and Hakodate in 1859-1860 with an Account of Japan Generally [and] with a Series of Letters on Japan, by His Wife (1861)
  • Arthur Adams, Travels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria (1870)
  • Edmund Gregory Holtham, Eight Years in Japan, 1873-1881 (1883)
  • Major Henry Knollys, Sketches of Life in Japan (1887)
  • Hon. Lewis [Strange] Wingfield, Wanderings of a Globe-Trotter in the Far East (1889)

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