New Publication of Interest to BARS membership

Travels, Explorations and Empires 1770-1835: Part Two

Second set of 4 Volumes
General Editors: Tim Fulford and Peter J Kitson
Advisory Editor: Tim Youngs

The Romantic Period saw the advance of the massive British imperial
expansion that
was to make it dominant for most of the nineteenth century. There was a
corresponding expansion in travel writings, which, highly popular in their
own time,
seemed to bring exotic realms within the grasp of the reading public and
were a
source for ethnographic and cultural information about other
societies.Students of
British history and colonialism will find much to interest them in this
collection. The
selection of writings reflects the diversity of the literature, revealing
something of the
cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as fuelling
debates on
colonialism, natural history, anthropology and slavery. During the Romantic
period
many heroic voyages of exploration were made as, following Cook’s three
great
voyages, the globe was charted and described. The issues which arise from
the travel
literature of this era are particularly important because there was at this
time no fully
formed single version of imperialism, and no fully crystallized stereotype
about the
peoples who were subjected to empire. Rather, ideologies and stereotypes
were in
the process of being formed, often in conflict with each other and in
contradiction with
themselves. Some of the greatest literary works of the period such as
Coleridge’s
'Ancient Mariner', Byron’s Don Juan and Shelley’s 'The Witch of Atlas'
were
inspired by the narratives within this collection, which include the
journals of Sir
Joseph Banks and the voyages of Captain James Cook. Each volume represents
one
geographical section of the explorations which spanned the world from North
America
to the Far East, and the Polar regions to the South Seas and Australasia.
All texts reproduced in facsmile
Each text accompanied by headnote and endnotes where appropriate
Each set has a comprehensive index



         Travels, Explorations and Empires, 1770-1835 Volumes 5-8
    Travel Writings on Africa, India, the Carribbean, South Seas and
Australasia
                1 85196 7214: 4 Volume Set: £350/$570

c.1600pp: 234x156mm: December 2001Availability: Japan: Kinokuniya

Part II

Volume 5
Africa

Edited by Debbie Lee
James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790); Mungo Park,
Travels
into the Interior Districts of Africa (1799); Sir John Barrow, An Account
of Travels into
the Interior of Southern Africa (1801–4); Christian Frederick Damberger,
Travels
through the Continent of Africa from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco
(1801);
James Hingston Tuckey, Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River
Zaire, usually
called the Congo, in South Africa (1818); George Francis Lyon, A Narrative
of Travels
in Northern Africa (1821); Dixon Denham, Captain Clapperton and Dr Oudney,
Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa (1826);
Alexander
Gordon Laing, The Letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing (1824–6); Hugh
Clapperson, Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa
(1829); Richard
and John Lander, Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and
Termination of
the Niger (1832)

Volume 6
India

Edited by Indira Ghose
James Forbes, Oriental Memoirs: Selections from a Series of Familiar
Letters Written
During Seventeen Years’ Residence in India (1813); Eliza Fay, Original
Letters
from India (1821); William Hodges, Travels in India, During the Years 1780,
1781,
1782 and 1783 (1794); Maria Graham, Lady Callcott, Journal of a Residence
in India
(1812); Reginald Heber, Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces
of India,
from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824–5 (1828); Emma Roberts, Scenes and
Characteristics of Hindostan, with Sketches of Anglo-Indian Society (1835)

Volume 7
South America and Carribbean

Edited by Nigel Leask
Antonio de Ulloa and Jorge Juan, A Voyage to South America (1772); Martin
Dobrizhoffer, An Account of the Abipones, and Equestrian People of
Paraguay, trans.
Sara Coleridge (1822); Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland, Personal
Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctal Regions of the New Continent, During
the Years
1799–1804, trans. Helena Maria Williams (1814–29); John Mawe, Travels
in the
Interior of Brazil, Particularly in the Gold and Diamond Districts of that
Country
(1812); John Stewart, A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of
Jamaica;
with Remarks on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Slaves, and on the
Abolition
of Slavery in the Colonies (1823); Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South
America, in
the Years 1812, 16, 20 and 24 (1825); Basil Hall, Extracts from a Journal
Written on
the Coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico, in the Years 1820–21–22 (1824);
Maria
Graham, Lady Callcott, Journal of a Voyage to Brazil, and Residence There,
During
Part of the Years 1821, 22, 23 (1824); William Bullock, Six Months’
Residence
and Travels in Mexico (1824); Robert Proctor, Narrative of a Journey Across
the
Cordilleras of the Andes, and of a Residence in Lima, and Other Parts of
Peru in the
Years 1823 and 1824 (1825); Francis Bond Head, Rough Notes Taken During
Some
Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes (1826); Henry Nelson
Coleridge, Six Months in the West Indies in 1825 (1826); Charles Mackenzie,
Notes
on Haiti, Made During a Residence in that Republic (1830)

Volume 8
South Seas and Australasia

Edited by Peter J Kitson
John Hawkesworth, A New Voyage, Round the World in the Years 1768, 1769,
1770
and 1771 (1774); James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the
World (1777); George Forster, A Voyage Round the World in His Britannic
Majesty’s Sloop Resolution, Commanded by Capt. James Cook, During the
Years 1772, 3, 4 and 5 (1777); Johann Reinhold Forster, Observations Made
During a
Voyage Round the World (1778); James Cook, Voyage to the Pacific Ocean …
for
Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere (1784); David Samwell, A
Narrative of
the Death of Captain James Cook (1786); George Keate, An Account of the
Pelew
Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean (1788); William
Bligh, A
Voyage to the South Sea Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the
Purpose of
Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies (1792); George Hamilton,
A
Voyage Round the World in His Majesty’s Frigate Pandora: Performed Under
the
Direction of Captain Edwards; in 1790, 1791 and 1792 (1793); Mary Ann
Parker, A
Voyage Round the World (1795); David Collins, An Account of the English
Colony in
New South Wales (1798–1802); Robert Southey, ‘Review of the
Transactions of
the Missionary Society in the South Sea Islands’ (1809); George Vason, An
Authentic Narrative of Four Years’ Residence at Tongabatoo (1810);
Matthew
Finders, A Voyage to Terra Australis, Undertaken for the Purpose of
Completing the
Discovery of that Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the Years 1801, 1802 and
1803
(1814); John Martin, An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the
South
Pacific Ocean (1817); Robert Southey, review of William Ellis, Polynesian
Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Six Years in the South Sea Islands
(1830)

Editorial board

Tim Fulford is at Nottingham Trent University, and is author of
Coleridge’s
Figurative Language, Landscape, Liberty and Authority, and Romanticism and
Masculinity
Peter Kitson is at the University of Wales, Bangor, and is author of YWES,
Coleridge
and the Armoury of the Human Mind and is co-editor of Slavery, Abolition
and
Emancipation
Tilar J Mazzeo is at Oregon State University
Debbie Lee is at Washington State University
Indira Ghose is at the Freie Universität, Berlin
Nigel Leask is at Queens' College, University of Cambridge



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