North European Travel Accounts Bibliography

 

Annotations and essays by Elizabeth Barrett (2005), Kelsey Bergman (2006), Anna Bickenback (06), Sam Cooley (06), Jennifer Donough (06), Jamie Haller (06), Sonia Lunacek (05), Navreet Mann (06), Beth Martin (06), Joshua Price (05), Erica Prismantas (06), Elizabeth Simenstad (06), Seth Sligar (06), Darcy Quinn (06), Hendrik Voll (06), and Artem Yashchenko (06). 

 

1632

Sweden: A Short Survey of the Kingdom of Sweden (London, 1632.) [Annotation 1] [Annotation 2]

 

1694

Robinson, John. An Account of Sueden: together with an extract of the history of that kingdom. [Microform]. London: Printed for Tim Goodwin, 1694. [Annotation]

 

1694

Robinson, John. An Account of Sueden: together with an extract of the history of that kingdom. [Microform]. London: Printed for Tim Goodwin, 1694. [Annotation]

 

1698

Connor, Bernard. The history of Poland London : Printed by J.D. for Dan Brown ... and Roper ..., 1698.  [Annotation] [Essay]

 

1710

Whitworth, Charles, Baron. An Account of Russia as it was in the year 1710. London: Strawberry Hill Press, 1758. (158 pages) [Annotation]

 

1723

Weber, Friedrich Christian.  The Present State of Russia.  [Annotation] [Essay]

 

1740

Cook, John, M.D., at Hamilton.  Voyages and Travels : Through the Russian Empire, Tartary, and part of the Kingdom of Persia.  Edinburgh: Oriental Research Partners, 1997. [Annotation]

 

1770

Voyages and Travels by John Cook, MD, at Hamilton, Scotland, Volume I & II Edinburgh: 1770, ed. A.L. Fullerton (Oriental Research Partners Newtonville, Mass., 1997) [Annotation]

 

1784

Coxe, William. Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, interspersed with historical relations and political inquiries. Volume 1 (590p) & 2 (630p). London, Printed by J. Nichols, 1784. [Annotation] [Essay]

 

1803

Wilmot, Martha and Catherine. The Russian journals of Martha and Catherine Wilmot; being an Account by two Irish ladies of their adventures in Russia as guests of the celebrated Princess Daschkaw, containing vivid descriptions of contemporary court life and society, and lively anecdotes of many interesting historical characters, 1803-1808, edited by the Marchioness of Londonberry and H.M. Hyde. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1934. [Annotation]

 

1813

Green, George, Esq. Journal From London to St. Petersburgh (sic) by Way of Sweden. London: T. Boosey, 1813. (224 pages) [Annotation]

 

1815

Johnston, Robert. Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland; Along the Southern Shores of the Baltic. New York: Arno Press, 1970.  (First edition: J.J. Stockdale, London 1815) 403 pages. [Annotation 1] [Annotation 2]  

 

1830

Gerakov, G.  Prodolzhenie Putevykh Zapisok Po Mnogim Rossiiskim Guberniiam.  St. Petersburg: Grecha Books, 1830. [Annotation]    

 

1839

Custine, Marquis de. Journey for our time; the journals of the Marquis de Custine, 1839/, edited and translated by Phyllis Penn Kohler. Chicago: H. Regnery, 1951. [Annotation]

 

1844

Rigby, Elizabeth. Letters From the Baltic. London: John Murray, 1844. (160 pages) [Annotation 1] [Annotation 2] [Annotation 3]

 

1846

An English Resident. Revelations of Russia in 1846. London: Henry Colburn, 1846.  357 pages. [Annotation]

 

1848

Maxwell, John S. The Czar, His Court and People. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1848. (243 pages) [Annotation] [Essay]

 

1849

Wilson, William Rae. 1772-1849. Travels in Russia.  New York, Arno Press, 1970. [Annotation]

 

1850

Prince, Nancy.  A Black Woman’s Odyssey through Russia and Jamaica. New York: Markus Wiener Publishing, 1850. [Annotation 1] [Annotation 2] [Essay]

 

1855

Sears, Robert. An Illustrated Description of the Russian Empire. New York: Robert Sears, 1855. 686 pages. [Annotation]

 

1877

Anderson, E.L. Six Weeks in Norway. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke and Co., 1877.   80 pages. [Annotation 1] [Annotation 2]

 

1889

Blackstock, E. Frazer. The land of the Viking and The Empire of the Tsar. Illustrated New York, London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889. [Annotation]

 

1891

Stevens, Thomas. Through Russia on a Mustang. New York: Cassell, 1891. [Annotation]

 

1898

Aubyn Trevor-Battye, A Northern Highway of the Tsar. Whitehall Gardens: Archibald Constable & CO., 1898 [Annotation]

 

1901

Emery, M. S. Russia Through the Stereoscope: A Journey Across the Land of the Czar From Finland to the Black Sea. New York and London: Underwood and Underwood, 1901. [Annotation]

 

1904

Appleton, Nathan. Russian Life and Society. Boston, Massachusetts. Murray and Company Press, 1904. [Annotation] [Essay]

 

1916

Levings, Grace M. Travel Sketches of Norway, Sweden, Russia, Austria, Belgium and Holland. Boston: Gorham P, 1916. [Annotation]

 

1924

Williams, Maynard Owen.  “Latvia, Home of the Letts,” National Geographic. Volume 46. October 1924. p. 401-443. [Annotation] [Essay]

 

1931

Spaull, Hebe. The Baltic States: Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1931. [Annotation]

 

1934

Leonard K. Elmhirst, Trip to Russia.  New York: New Republic Inc., 1934.  [Annotation]

 

1935

Duranty, Walter. I Write as I Please. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. [Annotation] [Essay]

 

1937

White, F. Peasant Republic on the Baltic.  Travel. Volume 69. p. 20-23+48. Aug. 1937. [Annotation]

 

1938

Babey, Anna Mary.  Americans in Russia. Comet Press. Brooklyn, New York. 1938. [Annotation]

 

1939

Ungern-Sternberg, Baroness Irina. ‘Estonia: at Russia's Baltic Gate.’ National Geographic v. 76 (December 1939) p. 803-34. [Annotation] [Essay]

 

1920-1939

 

Lamey, Bernhard.  Der Katzenkonig von Riga und andere Erinnerungen eines Auslandskorrespondenten, Hannover-Dohren: v. Hirschheydt, 1977.  [Annotation]

 

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Russia : a chronicle of three journeys in the aftermath of the revolution. Translated by Michael Antonakes and Thanasis Maskaleris.  Berkeley : Creative Arts Book Co., 1989. [Annotation]

 

1948

Steinbeck, John. A Russian Journal, with pictures by Robert Capa.  New York: The Viking Press, 1948. [Annotation]

 

1962

Menon, Kumara Padmanabha Sivasankra. Russian Panorama: Moscow, Georgia, the Crimea, Azerbaijan, Nizhni, Novgorod, Leningrad, Stalingrad, the Ukraine, the Volga, Siberia, Soviet and Chinese Central Asia, the Arctic and Baltic, Poland, Hungary. Oxford University Press, 1962. [Annotation]

 

1964

Van der Post, Laurens. Journey into Russia. London: The Hogarth Press, 1964. 307 pages. [Annotation] [Essay]

 

1969

Robinson, James M. Americanski Journalist: ten thousand miles of Russia through the eyes of an American observer. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1969. [Annotation]

 

1971

Menon, Kumara  Padmanabha Sivasankra. Russia Revisited. Delhi: Vikas Publications, 1971. [Annotation]

 

1976

Smith, Hedrick.  The Russians.  New York:  The New York Times Book Company, 1976. [Annotation] [Essay]

 

1977

Usmani, Shaukat. Historic Trips of a Revolutionary (Sojourn in the Soviet Union). New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private Limited, 1977. [Annotation]

 

1980

Vesilind, Priit. ‘Return to Estonia’ National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 157, No. 4, April 1980, p. 485-511. [Annotation] [Essay]

 

1983

Khadilkar, Nilkanth. Practical Socialism. Mouj Printing Bureau. 1983. [Annotation]

 

1989

Vesilind, Priit. Return to Estonia. National Geographic Magazine: No. 4, April 1980. (26 pages) [Essay]

 

1990

 

Vesilind, Priit. ‘The Baltic Nations.’ National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 178, No. 5, November 1990, p. 2-37. [Annotation 1] [Annotation 2] [Annotation 3] [Essay 1] [Essay 2]

 

Scott, Gini Graham.  The Open Door: Traveling in the USSR.  San Rafael, Calif. : New World Library, 1990.  [Annotation] [Essay]

 

1991

Smith, Hedrick.  The New Russians.  New York:  Avon Books, 1991. [Annotation] [Essay]

 

1999

Bird, Tim. A Baltic Odyssey: Exploring the Baltic Sea Region. Helsinki: Kustannus Oy Taifuuni, 1999 [Annotation]

 

2000

Vesilind, Priit. Looking For the Vikings. National Geographic Magazine: 2000. (24 pages) [Essay]