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A Traveller's Year is an anthology of extracts from diaries, journals and letters, two or three for each day of the year, on the subject of travel and exploration. The extracts convey men and women's experiences of travel and discovery throughout the centuries from classical times to the early twenty-first century, with an emphasis on the period 1750 - 1950, the classic era of both European exploration and diary-writing. 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.
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Themes include:Journeys westward in America - diaries of people who travelled as emigrants to the WestEighteenth and nineteenth-century travellers' encounters with the remains of earlier cultures eg.Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, pre-Columbian AmericasWhat you might call 'anthropological' traveling eg. Darwin on Tierra del Fuegians and a nineteenthcentury Italian who was one of the first to travel into New GuineaTravellers in first phase of imperial expansion eg. 17th century diaries of East India Companymerchants travelling to India and JapanTravellers discovering part of their own country is as foreign to them as abroad eg Orwell going northEntries which reflect classic eras of travel writing eg. the Thirties with Waugh, Robert Byron, GrahamGreene etc or Eighties with Bruce ChatwinReligious sightseeing - nineteenth-century Europeans and Americans travelling to Holy LandTravellers who hate travelling and fill their diaries with complaints about how bloody awful abroad isand how dreadful the ways of foreigners arePeople travelling to Britain from elsewhere and finding it a foreign countryHeroic deaths in the sun and on the iceScientific investigationAristocratic and artistic self-improvement (especially to Paris, Venice, and Rome)18th century women travellers and wives of East India Company staffLuxury leisure, package tours and backpacking.
