A Traveller's Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals and Letters

A Traveller's Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals and Letters

A Traveller's Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals and Letters

A Traveller's Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals and Letters

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Overview

A collection of anecdotes for each day of the year on the subject of travel and exploration from Charles Darwin, Michael Palin, Evelyn Waugh, and others.

With an emphasis on the period 1750–1950—the classic era of both European exploration and diary-writing—this anthology features excerpts that convey men and women’s experiences of travel and discovery from the sixteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. The authors of the pieces range from famous explorers such as Captains Cook and Scott to modern travel writers journeying through the contemporary world, from people who pushed back the boundaries of geographical knowledge to people who wrote about what they did on their summer holidays.

The book includes an introduction, explanatory notes and mini-biographies of all the contributors, including:
  • Gertrude Bell (woman traveller in the Middle East)
  • James Boswell (travels in Scotland and the Hebrides)
  • William Cobbett (Rural Rides through England)
  • Christopher Columbus (journals of his voyages to America)
  • Charles Darwin (Voyage of the Beagle)
  • Captain James Cook (voyages in the Pacific)
  • Washington Irving (American writer travelled in Europe in first decades of nineteenth century)
  • Edward Lear (landscape painter and nonsense writer produced journals of his travels in Greece, Corsica, Near East etc)
  • Lewis & Clark (journals of famous journey of American exploration)
  • William Morris (wrote a journal of a trip to Iceland in 1870s)
  • Michael Palin (a Python abroad)
  • Mungo Park (African explorer in early nineteenth century)
  • Captain Robert Falcon Scott (doomed journey to South Pole)
  • Evelyn Waugh (diaries of 1930s travels in Mediterranean and beyond)
  • William John Wills (explorer of Australia)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781012017
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Publication date: 12/20/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 528
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Travis Elborough is an author and social commentator. His books include the four titles in the Unexpected Atlases series - Atlas of Improbable Places, Atlas of the Unexpected, Atlas of Vanishing Places and Atlas of Forgotten Places, together with A Traveller’s Year, A London Year, The Long-Player Goodbye, Being A Writer and A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution. Travis is a regular contributor to Radio 4 and the Guardian, and has penned articles on all aspects of travel and culture, from pirates in the Caribbean to donkeys at the British seaside. He has written for the Times, Sunday TimesNew Statesman, BBC History Magazine and Kinfolk among others.

NICK RENNISON has worked as a writer, editor and bookseller for more than twenty years. His London Blue Plaque Guide has been through three editions in the last decade and he has also published The Book of London Lists, described by the London Evening Standard as a book that 'can teach even the most die-hard Londoner something they didn't know'. He lives in Stockport. 


Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author and cultural commentator for more than a decade now. His book include The Bus We Loved, a history of the Routemaster bus;The Long Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records; and Wish You Were Here, a survey of the British beside the seaside. Elborough is a regular contributor to the Observer and the Guardian but has written for the Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, the Oldie, TATE etc., BBC History magazine and Kinfolk among others and frequently appears on BBC Radio 4 and Five Live.
A former bookseller and Web-site editor, Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author, and cultural commentator for the last decade. His books include The Bus We Loved: London's Affair with the Routemaster and The Vinyl Countdown. Nick Rennison has worked as a writer, editor, and bookseller for more than twenty years. His London Blue Plaque Guide has been through three editions in the last decade and he has also published The Book of London Lists, described by the London Evening Standard as a book that "can teach even the most die-hard Londoner something they didn't know." Both of them live in London.

Table of Contents

Themes include:
Journeys westward in America - diaries of people who travelled as emigrants to the West
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century travellers' encounters with the remains of earlier cultures eg.
Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, pre-Columbian Americas
What you might call 'anthropological' traveling eg. Darwin on Tierra del Fuegians and a nineteenth
century Italian who was one of the first to travel into New Guinea
Travellers in first phase of imperial expansion eg. 17th century diaries of East India Company
merchants travelling to India and Japan
Travellers discovering part of their own country is as foreign to them as abroad eg Orwell going north
Entries which reflect classic eras of travel writing eg. the Thirties with Waugh, Robert Byron, Graham
Greene etc or Eighties with Bruce Chatwin
Religious sightseeing - nineteenth-century Europeans and Americans travelling to Holy Land
Travellers who hate travelling and fill their diaries with complaints about how bloody awful abroad is
and how dreadful the ways of foreigners are
People travelling to Britain from elsewhere and finding it a foreign country
Heroic deaths in the sun and on the ice
Scientific investigation
Aristocratic and artistic self-improvement (especially to Paris, Venice, and Rome)
18th century women travellers and wives of East India Company staff
Luxury leisure, package tours and backpacking.

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