Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 4

Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

Peter J Kitson, William Baker, Indira Ghose, Susan Schoenbauer Thurin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781138755710
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000558968
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.

INDEX

• Abdel Latif, 3.156
• Abd-el-Rahman, Seyd, 3.419
• Abernathy, Mr, 1.63
• Academy Glacier, 1.283, 284-5
• Addams, Jane, 2.370
• Admiralty Mountains, 1.74
• adobe huts, 2.270
• USS Advance, 1.105-28
• Advance Bluff, 1.112, 113
• Afghanistan, 3.41, 131
• Agassiz, Cape, 1.163
• Agra, during Indian Mutiny, 3.258,261, 279
• Ahn-Ing-Kay, 4.102
• Aino people, 4. 218-21, 258-63
• Akasaka, 4.307
• Akbar Shah, 3.51, 52, 54
• Albrecht, Mr (Russian doctor in China), 4.208
• Albrecht, Mrs, 4.208, 209
• Alcock, Mr (British Consul in Nagasaki), 4.226-7
• Alden, Lt, 1.22
• Aldrich, Lt, 1.220,222
• HMS Alert, 1.214-27
• Alexander the Great, 3.39, 43
• Alexander, Cape, 1.158, 171
• Allard, M. le Chevalier, 3.9, 10
• Alum Creek, Yellowstone, 2.197
• Ambler, Dr, 1.245, 248, 249, 250,251, 253, 254, 256, 257
• American Civil War, 2.125-43, 147-64, 228
• effects of, 2.131-3, 147-56
• expense of, 2.129-32
• pensions awarded after, 2.218
• American and Colonial Exchange, New York, 2.250-1
• American Missionary Society, 2.153-4
• American River, 2.285
• American squadron, in search of Franklin's expedition, 1.81-3, 99, 100, 101, 102
• Ames, Dr, 1.269,270,274
• Amjud Allee Shah, 3.187-8
• Amsterdam Island, 1.3
• Amundsen, Roald E. G., 1.315
• Anderson, Major, 3.232, 245
• Anderson, Mrs, 3.250
• Anderson, John, 1.44
• Anderson, Mary, 2.254
• Annesley, Mr, 4.234
• Antarctic Circle, 1.34, 37
• Antarctic Continent, 1.30-3, 34, 36
• American expeditio...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents Page
• Acknowledgements Page
• Introduction Page
• China: Being 'The Times' Special Correspondence from China in the Years 1857-58 (1859)
• The River of Golden Sand: The Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah, introductory essay by Col. Henry Yule, CB, RE (1880)
• Wanderings in China (1886)
• Through the Yang-Tse Gorges or Trade and Travel in Western China (1888)
• Intimate China (1899)
• A Residence at Nagasaki and Hakodate in 1859-1860 with an Account of Japan Generally [and] with a Series of Letters on Japan, by His Wife (1861)
• Travels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria (1870)
• Eight Years in Japan, 1873-1881 (1883)
• Sketches of Life in Japan (1887)
• Wanderings of a Globe-Trotter in the Far East (1889)
• Further Reading
• Notes
• Index