(Luigi Castiglioni's) Viaggio, Travels in the United States of North America 1785-87.
A complete English translation of a detailed account of travel in the United States during the eighteenth century by Italian botanist Luigi Castiglioni. Includes description of travel along the Eastern Seaboard from Vermont to Georgia. Includes
David Livingstone's missionary travels in Britain and America : exploring the wider circulation of a Victorian travel narrative
Exploration ; Geographical knowkedge ; Nineteenth Century ; South Africa ; Trade ; Traveller's tale
the significant scholarly attention it has attracted to date. The paper extends the critical focus, demonstrating that the remarkable appetite for knowledge of Livingstone and his travels at this time gave rise to a set of alternative accounts. While
First published in London in 1857 by Murray, Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa was the bestselling travel narrative in nineteenth-century Britain. The remarkable commercial success it enjoyed helps to explain
Paradise or pandemonium? West African landscapes in the travelaccounts of Victorian women
Africa ; Historical geography ; Imperialism ; Landscape ; Landscape esthetics ; Myth ; Nineteenth Century ; Traveller's tale ; West Africa ; Woman
The A. explores how women travel writers contributed to the popular geographies of West Africa in Victorian Britain and, more specifically, investigates the extent to which the images contained in their narratives were informed by, or challenged
Epistemology ; Geography ; Teaching of geography ; Territory ; Traveller's tale
Geography as every other field of human knowledge, cannot pretend to know, describe or understand everything, be it a specific place ; in the same way we try to understand these atmospheres in travelaccounts related to that territory. - (NF)
Questions of inscription and epistemology in British travelers' accounts of early nineteenth-century South America
British people ; Discourse ; Epistemology ; Geographical knowkedge ; History of geography ; Nineteenth Century ; Publishing ; South America ; Traveller's tale
Every travel event contains a geography lesson : an account written by the geographer-lecturer aboard of what happened when a large cruise ship ran into a cyclone in the middle of the Indian Ocean in February 1992. - (DWG)
Provenance of long-travelled dust determined with ultra-trace-element composition : a pilot study with samples from New Zealand glaciers
the surface of alpine glaciers in the Southern Alps, New Zealand, believed to have undergone long-distance atmospheric transport from Australia, are recognizable on account of their overabundances of Pb and Cu with respect to typical upper crustal values