LS210
Travel Writers & Travel Liars in Latin America:1500-1900

Resources

For a more extensive listn of internet resources, see the page with contemporary links in my Student Resources section

WEB

AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERNET RESOURCES FOR TRAVELERS

Cornell University, Making of America database http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/

Project Gutenberg (texts of numerous books & articles, on line), http://promo.net/pg/

Travelers Accounts, part of Modern History Sourcebook (Halsell) with partial and full texts of travelers from ancient to modern times

The Illustrating Traveler: Adventure and Illustration in north America and the Caribbean, 1760-1895.

PBS Internet Resource for "The West" http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/

PBS Internet Resource for "The US-Mexican War, on-line" http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/

Emigrant Diaries & Resources: The Move West Diaries of the West-Accounts of those who made the trek from East to West in the 19th century

Panama Railroad Travelogues, http://www.trainweb.org/panama/travelog.html

Columbus & The Age of Discovery-Links to over 1000 articles Includes a list & images of statues or monuments to Columbus around the world

The Age of Exploration-Mariners' Museum On-Line Exhibit

Ancient American Civilizations: Early Publishers, Explorers, Adventurers & Scholars, http://www.ukans.edu/~hoopes/506/Explorers.htm

Women Travelers of the Victorian Age

Personal Narratives, Participants in the Spanish-American War of 1898, World Travelers

Migrations, The Americas, 1600-1800 Including: Seventeenth-Century

Lewis & Clark Expedition

Medieval Travel Literature:

http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/medtravlit/ (Syllabus) http://www.hku.hk/english/course/03527.htm (Syllabus)
Review: Exploring medieval travel along Italy's pilgrimage routes
Page on Mandeville
Page on Arculf
Page on Arculf
Page on Arculf

Music in the Kongo Angola Region http://www.whc.neu.edu/prototype/12/sume1_t5.html and

On the Employment & Divertissement of the Caribbeans, 17th c. http://www.whc.neu.edu/prototype/12/sume1_t2.html and

Music From Jamaica, 1688 http://www.whc.neu.edu/prototype/12/sume1_t1.html

"Mr. Slidell's Mission to Mexico," in The American Whig review. 5:4, pp. 325-339. URL: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABL5306-0005-73

Website:Review of Humboldt, the New American Review, 1823,
URL: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0016-3

Website:Women Travel Writers of the 19th Century (including excerpts from Mme. Calderon de la Barca as well as other travelers to Latin America, Africa, etc.)
URL: http://erc.lib.umn.edu/dynaweb/travel/@Generic__CollectionView;pt=travel

Website: Journal of a Cruise to the Pacifick Ocean, by Captain David Porter: The North American review.1:2, July 1815, pp. 247-275
URL: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0001-74

Website:: George Ruxton, excerpt, Mexico City in 1846 (online, in Spanish). From George F. Ruxton Aventuras en México, trans. Raúl Trejo, Mexico, 1974, pp. 61-68. http://sunsite.unam.mx/revistas/1847/Ruxton-i.html, http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/ruxton.html#ch1
Website:Ulysses S. Grant on the Mexican-American War, http://www.icomm.ca/carecen/page45.html
Website:Samuel Chamberlain, on the US-Mexico war, http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/chamberlain/
Website:James Pierson Beckwourth, African-American trapper & soldier, http://www.beckwourth.org/Biography/index.html; his book Bonner, T.D., The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth
Website:Republic of Central America, The North American review. Volume 26:58, January 1828, pp. 127-146 URL: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0026-7

Website: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Book Review, Two Years before the Mast
Website: Full text of Two Years Before the Mast (can be downloaded, also H. Melville's Billy Budd, a Sailor, and Moby Dick; Sabatini's fictional Pirate story, Captain Blood; J. Conrad's Heart of Darnkness; Frederick Douglass' My Escape from Slavery)
Website:Biography, RH Dana;Two Years Before the Mast (full text, by chapter; with 3 chapters written 24 years later)
Website:Biography & Photo, Richard Henry Dana
Website: Dana Remembered: Dana Pt., CA, with replica of the ship Pilgrim

Website: Tierra del Fuego, mapped during the voyage of the Beagle (Darwin), 1832
Website: Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle (searchable full text on-line)
Website: Learning center, Voyage of the Beagle (interactive)
Website: Study Guide, Voyage of the Beagle (interactive)
Website: Bird volume, On-Line Digital Project (UCLA Library)
Website: The Dana Correspondence Project

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