- Description: Ernest Pellegrin Joseph Michel was a French lawyer and world traveler. Between 1880 and 1884 he circled the globe—including North America, Australasia, Japan, China, India, South America, and Southern Africa—and published his experiences in Le Tour du Monde en 240 Jours (first volumes 1882; full edition 1893–1894). The letters offer a sharp, detailed, and candid account of each destination, with social, cultural, and geographical observations. In 1896 he released À travers l’hémisphère sud—a four-volume record of his second world voyage
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1837-1896
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Michel_(voyageur)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25397423
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Michel, Ernest, Le Tour du Monde en 240 Jours, Paris/Nice, 1893–1894. Michel, Ernest, A travers l’hémisphère sud. Mon second voyage autour du monde, 4 vol., 1896.
- Description: Elizabeth Sarah “Nina” Mazuchelli was an English travel writer and explorer. In 1869–1871, while living in Darjeeling, she undertook a two‑month Himalayan expedition, traversing glaciers and ridges between Sikkim and Bhutan. Her 1876 book, The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them, recounts the journey with illustrations she made herself
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Nina, Lady Pioneer
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1832–1914
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Sarah_Mazuchelli
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84418935
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them, 1876.
- Description: James Perkins published in 1891 A Tour Round the Globe, a collection of letters sent to the City Press during his journey around the world. The approximately 82-page text offers a sharp and engaging record of key global destinations at the turn of the 19th century, blending observations on cultures, landscapes, societies, and personal impressions
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Perkins, James, A Tour Round the Globe: Letters to the “City Press”, London, Collingridge, 1891.
- Description: Susanna Moodie (née Strickland) was born in Suffolk, England, in 1803 and emigrated to Upper Canada with her family in 1832. Settling near Peterborough, Ontario, she chronicled her settler experience in Roughing It in the Bush (1852), a candid and often witty account that became a pioneer’s guide for British emigrants. Its sequel Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush (1853) reflects on moving into settlement towns, combining realism with introspection and critique
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1803–1885
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Moodie
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1396169
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Moodie, Susanna Strickland, Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada, London 1852. Moodie, Susanna Strickland, Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush, 1853.
- Description: Sir Francis Galton was an English explorer, anthropologist, and scholar, known for his expedition to Southwest Africa between 1850 and 1852, during which he crossed little-known regions using camels and river boats. The account of this journey, Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa, earned him the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. After returning to England, marked by the difficulties encountered during the expedition, Galton set out to pass on the skills he had acquired to travelers and soldiers. In 1855, he published The Art of Travel (London: John Murray, 1860), a manual devoted to survival and self-sufficiency in challenging environments, which was also used by explorers such as Sir Richard Francis Burton. The book brings together practical guidance on various topics, including finding water in the desert, handling pack animals, avoiding snake-related risks, and treating injuries. It also includes instructions on organizing an African expedition, riding horses, managing elephants, extracting teeth, and constructing a sleeping bag from fur. The text also contains passages reflecting the cultural context of the time, including references to the management of porters. Illustrated with nineteenth-century drawings, the book is a useful source for the history of exploration and travel practices
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1822–1911
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: -
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119691994
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Galton, Francis, The Art of Travel; or Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries, London, 1855/1872.
- Description: Isabel Savory was an English traveler and writer who, at the turn of the 20th century, recounted her explorations with wit and flair. In India, Morocco, and elsewhere, she often traveled on horseback or by camel, immersing herself in local cultures and offering in her books a direct, personal view far removed from the colonial clichés of the time
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47038426
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Savory, Isabel, In the Tail of the Peacock (India), London, 1903. Savory, Isabel, In the Heart of Morocco, London, 1904.
- Description: Henry James was an American-born author who later became a naturalized British subject, known for his insightful literary travel writing. In 1882 he embarked on a provincial tour of France, avoiding Paris in favor of smaller towns; these articles, originally published under En Province (1883–84) in The Atlantic Monthly, were later collected in A Little Tour in France (1884) and extensively revised in the 1900 illustrated edition with artwork by Joseph Pennell. Covering places like Tours, Bourges, Toulouse, Arles, and Avignon, James explores architecture, history, local society, and cultural heritage. He famously asserted, "France may be Paris, but Paris is not France"
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1843–1916
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170509
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: James, Henry, A Little Tour in France, 1884.
- Description: Egerton K. Laird authored Incidents of Travel in South Africa (1881), documenting approximately three months in the Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Natal, and Zululand. The narrative covers stops in cities like Kimberley, boat journeys on rivers, carriage excursions, and close observations of local communities and Zulu life. Though not widely remembered among 19th-century travel writers, Laird provides a noteworthy historical snapshot of the sociopolitical and ethnographic landscape of southern Africa just before the Second Boer War. In 1875 he also published The Rambles of a Globe Trotter, a vivid and detailed account of his journeys through Australasia, Japan, China, Java, India and Kashmir
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76221724
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Laird, Egerton K., Incidents of Travel in South Africa: Being an Account of a Three Months’ Tour in the Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Natal and a Ride into Zululand, Birkenhead.
- Description: Laurence Sterne, an Irish-born writer of the 18th century, is best known for The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman but also for A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768), one of the founding texts of modern travel literature. In this book—written shortly before his death—Sterne, through his narrator Yorick, recounts an unconventional Grand Tour: less focused on monuments than on emotions, chance encounters, and the subtleties of human sensibility. His stops in France and Italy turned travel into an inner experience and influenced generations of travelers and writers
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1713–1768
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q218960
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Sterne, Laurence, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, London, 1768.
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