Inward Odyssey

Additional Readings: Other Travel Writing

NOTE: this list consists of two types of items: readily available materials that we chose not to include in the syllabus for various reasons, and items which we rejected as they are neither in print nor available as etexts. Since most items on this list can be acquired through interlibrary loan, you may wish to consider using one or more of them for your term paper.

Anson, George. A Voyage Round the World in the Years 1740-44

Bell, Gertrude. Various Titles

Bird, Isabella. Various Titles

Blunt, Anne. A Pilgrimage to Nedj, the Cradle of the Arab Race

Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. A Voyage Round the World

Burton, Richard Francis. Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to al-Madinah & Meccah

Columbus' Journals (readily available as an e-text)

Cook, James. A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness (a classic novel about European colonialism)

Fleming, Peter. News from Tartary

French-Sheldon, Mary. Sultan to sultan : adventures among the Masai and other tribes of East Africa

Forbes, Rosita. Various Titles

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines (a pseudo-travelogue about Africa)

Hansen, Eric. Motoring with Mohammed

Harrer, Heinrich. Seven Years in Tibet

Harriot, Thomas. A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia

Heber, Reginald. Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India

Horowitz, Tony. Baghdad Without a Map

Johnston, Harry. The Kilimanjaro Expedition

Kingsley, Mary. Travels in West Africa

Kipling, Rudyard. "The City of Dreadful Night"

Livingstone, David. Various Titles

Maillart, Ella. Forbidden Journey- From Peking to Kashmir (note- describes the same journey as Peter Fleming, above)

Melville, Herman. Typee: A Romance of the South Sea and Omoo (travel narratives in the South Pacific)

Montague, (Lady) Mary Wortley. Letters (18th-century travel account to Constantinople)

Mott, Augusta Mentor. Stones of Palestine: Notes of a Ramble through the Holy Land

Murphey, Dervla. Various Titles

O'Hanlon, Redmond. Various Titles

Park, Mungo. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa

Rashad, Ibrahim. An Egyptian in Ireland

Richburg, Keith B. Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa

Shackleton, Earnest. The Heart of the Antarctic

Stark, Freya. Various Titles

Theroux, Paul. Various Titles

Thesinger, Wilfred. Arabian Sands

Thompson, Joseph. Through Masai Land

The Travels of Dean Mahomet (an 18th-century Indian soldier's journey home)

Tidwell, Mike. The Ponds of Kilambayi: An African Sojourn

Virgil, The Aneiad (a Roman version of the Odyssey)

Von Humboldt, Alexander. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions

Wheeler, Sara. Travels in a Thin Country (on Chile)