Orientations
, by Bracewell, Wendy
- ISBN: 9789639776104 | 9639776106
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/1/2009
Excerpts from over 100 travel writings from 16th Century Pilgrimage diaries thru 20th Century impressions from behind the Iron Curtain.
| East European Travel Writing: A Guide to Orientation | p. xi |
| Europe in All its Variety (16th-18th centuries) | p. 1 |
| Words for the Traveller | p. 3 |
| A Phrasebook for Captives (1544) | p. 5 |
| Against Travel (1564) | p. 6 |
| Instructions for Travel: Ars apodemica (1639) | p. 8 |
| Paternal Advice (1656) | p. 10 |
| He who has this book in his home, has a great treasure (1742) | p. 12 |
| Variations: Pilgrims, Emissaries, Scholars and Adventurers | p. 13 |
| Journey to the Occident (1546) | p. 14 |
| A Land so Foreign to Ours (1553) | p. 19 |
| Pilgrimage diary (1595) | p. 23 |
| An Armenian Pilgrimage to Rome (1611) | p. 25 |
| Europe's Diversity: England (1620) | p. 27 |
| Iceland (1638) | p. 33 |
| Escape from the Infidels (1724) | p. 42 |
| A Defence of Pilgrimage (1724) | p. 48 |
| A Venetian Greek in the Ottoman Balkans, (1742) | p. 49 |
| Sinful Sufferings (1749) | p. 54 |
| Faking Exile on a Greek Island (1764) | p. 57 |
| A Franciscan's Journey from Lithuania to Spain (1768) | p. 59 |
| An Astronomical Voyage through the Apennines (1770) | p. 63 |
| Exile to Siberia (1790) | p. 65 |
| Voyages of Discovery (Late 18th to Mid-19h Century) | p. 69 |
| On Travel Writing | p. 72 |
| The Inquiries of Patriotic Travellers (1789) | p. 73 |
| Reasons for Travel Writing (1821) | p. 76 |
| Miraculous and Absurd Accounts of the Sclavonians (1823) | p. 77 |
| Writing as a Woman (1842) | p. 79 |
| Up off your cushions! (1844) | p. 80 |
| On (Domestic) Travel (1846) | p. 82 |
| Discoveries in Europe | p. 84 |
| Greeks: From the Frankish Lands to Europe | p. 85 |
| Amsterdam Chronicle (1760s-70s) | p. 85 |
| Letters from Amsterdam (1770s) | p. 88 |
| Letter from Paris to Smyrna (1788) | p. 90 |
| Two Serbian Travellers in East and West | p. 92 |
| Educational Pilgrimages (1788) | p. 92 |
| A Representative of Orthodox Dalmatia (1823) | p. 97 |
| From Moldavia and Wallachia | p. 100 |
| Learning from Enlightened Europe (1826) | p. 101 |
| Geography or Class? (1820s) | p. 107 |
| Hungarian Reformers Before 1848 | p. 109 |
| Three Things to be Learned in England (1815) | p. 109 |
| Questions about Hungary (1830-31) | p. 113 |
| 'Images of Hungary and the Hungarians' (1840) | |
| From Poland: Before and After Partition | p. 118 |
| English Education (1775) | p. 119 |
| The Further We Go, the Worse Things Get (1784-85) | p. 123 |
| London and Messina (1839) | p. 126 |
| Industrial civilization (1841) | p. 127 |
| Domopis: Travels through the Homeland | p. 129 |
| 'Fragment from a Journey in Upper Moldavia in 1839' (1839) | p. 130 |
| Our Travellers vs. Foreign Ones (1839) | p. 131 |
| Travelling at Home, German-style (1845) | p. 133 |
| A Nationalist Pilgrimage (1846) | p. 135 |
| On the Run in Bohemia (1849) | p. 137 |
| Frontier Ambivalence (1857) | p. 143 |
| Domopis: Slav Travels | p. 145 |
| Travels in Search of Slavic Antiquities (1795) | p. 146 |
| Daughters of Slava (1843) | p. 148 |
| Travel Trifles (1845) | p. 151 |
| Railways and Slavs (1846) | p. 155 |
| Equal to the Russians (1903) | p. 157 |
| The Idea and Practice of a Slavonic Travelogue (1907) | p. 158 |
| Sokol Excursion (1911) | p. 161 |
| The sea! The sea! (1923) | p. 163 |
| Variations: Three Women | p. 165 |
| My Sphere of Activity is too Narrow... (1839-1840) | p. 166 |
| Travels in Italy and Switzerland (1842) | p. 170 |
| The Women of Greece (1863) | p. 174 |
| On the Tourist Track (1850s-1930s) | p. 179 |
| Tourist and Travel Writer | p. 182 |
| The Hungarian Tourist (1855) | p. 183 |
| The Greek Tourist (1861) | p. 184 |
| Real Magyars: The Complacent Tourist (1863) | p. 185 |
| The Transylvanian Pilgrim: The Patriotic Tourist (1865) | p. 188 |
| Recollections from Italy: The Anti-Tourist (1890) | p. 193 |
| Letter from Berlin: The Ironic Tourist (1905) | p. 196 |
| The European Metropolis: Paris and the Rest | p. 200 |
| American Cities and London (1894) | p. 201 |
| Letter to Paris (1904) | p. 204 |
| If you've seen one big city (1906) | p. 206 |
| Paris for Women (1909) | p. 207 |
| 'Letters from Paris: Rue de Lappe' (1930) | p. 209 |
| What a European City Used to Be (1939) | p. 213 |
| No other European City is as Dirty (1939) | p. 215 |
| Back Home in Belgrade, After Paris (1940) | p. 215 |
| Exoticism and the Self | p. 218 |
| Comparative Orientalisms: Spain and Romania (1846) | p. 219 |
| Letters from Italy (1869) | p. 220 |
| A Czech Slavist in Serbia (1875) | p. 224 |
| Outlandish Uniforms (1898) | p. 227 |
| Sketches from Brussels (1906) | p. 228 |
| Austrian-or Worse (1913) | p. 231 |
| Stamboul for Romanians (1931) | p. 233 |
| 'The Barbarian Assault on Paris' (1932) | p. 234 |
| Domopis: Know Your Couotry | p. 237 |
| Plovdiv (1868) | p. 237 |
| Expedition to Investigate Exotic Fellow Hungarians (1870) | p. 239 |
| No Place Like Home (1875-78) | p. 242 |
| Come to Greece (1885) | p. 248 |
| The Delights of Home (1925) | p. 250 |
| Darkest Hungary (1932) | p. 251 |
| 'Journey to the Morea' (1937) | p. 254 |
| Why Keep Writing About Travel? | p. 256 |
| Across the Hatefully Clichéd Alps; Why Write about Venice? (1907) | p. 257 |
| 'Holidays, 1908' (1908) | p. 260 |
| 'Bittersweet Introduction' (1927) | p. 261 |
| 'Our Newest Travel Writers' (1930) | p. 263 |
| 'What We Learn Travelling' (1933) | p. 265 |
| Variations | p. 268 |
| Travel Notes: Spain, Milan and Paris (1913) | p. 268 |
| Albania and Switzerland (1914) | p. 271 |
| An Excursion to Russia (1926) | p. 273 |
| Letters from Norway (1914, 1951) | p. 280 |
| Europe Divided (1945-1989) | p. 287 |
| The Tasks of Travel Writing | p. 291 |
| Travel Writing, Then and Now (1962) | p. 292 |
| 'To Be or Not to Be a Tourist' (1973) | p. 294 |
| The View from a Periphery (1986) | p. 296 |
| Domopis: Fraternal Travels | p. 299 |
| A Pole in Bulgaria (1961) | p. 299 |
| 'Meridians of Central Europe' (1963) | p. 302 |
| Through Europe (1973) | p. 309 |
| Cossacks and Collective Farms (1980) | p. 314 |
| Carpathian Games (1981; 2006) | p. 322 |
| Cold War Variations | p. 326 |
| Waiting for a Visa (1947) | p. 326 |
| Variations à la France (1947) | p. 330 |
| Exile Journal (1950) | p. 331 |
| 'The Expatriate Caryatid' (1951) | p. 334 |
| 'My Holiday in England' (1957) | p. 338 |
| The Barbarian in the Garden (1962) | p. 341 |
| Vesuvius and Naples: Disillusion (1976) | p. 344 |
| 'Austro-Hungarian Travel Brochure' (1987) | p. 347 |
| V A Single Europe? (Since 1989) | p. 355 |
| 'A Pity We Didn't Burn to Death Instead' (1990) | p. 358 |
| 'Travemünde, Baltic Sea' (1998) | p. 364 |
| Bus People (1999) | p. 366 |
| The East European Scholar (2001) | p. 369 |
| Travelling to Babadag (2004) | p. 370 |
| Notes on Further Reading | p. 377 |
| Copyright Acknowledgements | p. 383 |
| Index | p. 387 |
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