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Y
Yaqut (Yaqut
ibn ‘Abdallah al-Hamawi al-Rumi, Shihab al-Din Abu ‘Abdallah)
c.1179[-]1229
Travel
Writing
Jacut’s geographisches Wörterbuch: aus den Handschriften
zu Berlin, St.Petersburg, Paris, London und Oxford, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, 6
vols, 1866[-]73 (reprints 1924 and 1965); as Kitab Mu’jam al-Buldan, edited by A.A. al-Shinqiti, 8 vols, 1906;
as Mu’jam al-buldan,
2nd edition, 7 vols, 1995[-]96
Jacut’s Moschtarik, das ist, Lexicon geographischer Homonyme [Mushtarik
wad’an wa-al-muftariq suq’an], edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld,
1846; reprinted, 1963
Kitab Irshad al-arib ila ma’rifat al-adib: al-ma’ruf bi-Mu’jam al-udaba’
aw Tabaqat al-udaba’,
7 vols, edited by D.S. Margoliouth, 1907[-]27; 2nd edition, 1923[-]31;
as Mu’jam al-udaba’, 20 vols, edited by Ahmad
Farid Rifa’i, 1936[-]38 (and later Middle Eastern reprints and
editions).
Lexicon geographicum, cui titulus est, Marâsid al ittilâ’ ‘ala asmâ’ al-amkina
wa-l-biqâ’,
6 vols, edited by T.G. Juynboll, 1852[-]64; as Marasid al-ittila’ ‘ala asma’ al-amkina wa-al-biqa’: wa-huwa mukhtasar
mu’jam al-buldan li-Yaqut, 3 vols, edited by ‘Ali Muhammad
al-Bajjawi, 1992
Further Reading
Abdullah, Muhammad A.H., “Yaqut al-Hamawi,
the Man and His Work Mu’jam
al-buldan” (MA thesis), Ypsilanti: Eastern Michigan University,
1983
‘Abd al-Karim, Gamal, La España musulmana en la obra de Yaqut (s.
XII[-]XIII): repertório enciclopédico de ciudades, castillos y
lugares de al-Andalus: extraído del Mu’yam al-buldan (diccionario
de los países), Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1974
‘Abd al-Karim, Gamal, Terminología geográfico-administrativa e historia
político-cultural de al-Andalus en el Mu’yam al-buldan de Yaqut,
3rd edition, Seville: Universidad de Sevilla, 1977
*Blachère, Régis, “Yaqut al-Rumi” in The Encyclopaedia
of Islam, vol. 4: 1153[-]54, 1st edition edited by M.T. Houtsma et al., Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1913[-]36
Barbier de Meynard, Charles, Dictionnaire géographique, historique et littéraire
de la Perse et des contrées adjacentes, extrait du Modjem el-Bouldan
de Yaqout, et complété à l’aide de documents arabes et persans
pour la plupart inédits, Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1861
Bloch, Ernst, Harawîs Schrift über die muhammedanischen Wallfahrtsorte, eine der Quellen
des Jâqût, Bonn: Verein Studentenwohl, 1929
Dib, al-Sayyid Muhammad, Yaqut al-Hamawi: ‘adiban wa-naqidan, Cairo:
Dar al-Tiba’ah al-Muhammadiyah, 1988
Elahie, R.M.N.E., The Life and Works of Yaqut ibn Abd Allah al-Hamawi,
Lahore: Panjab University Press, 1965
Heer, F. Justus, Die historischen und geographischen Quellen
in Jaqut’s geographischem Wörterbuch,
Strassburg: K.J. Trubner, 1898
Jwaideh, Wadie (translator), The Introductory Chapters of Yaqut’s Mu’jam
al-Buldan, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1959; reprinted, 1987
Krachkovskii, I.J., Izbrannye sochineniia, vol. 4: Arabskaia geograficheskaia literatura,
Moscow: Akademiia Nauk SSSR, 1957
Maqbul Ahmad, Seyyed, “Yaqut al-Hamawi
al-Rumi” in Dictionary of
Scientific Biography, edited by Charles Coulston Gillispe,
16 vols, vol. 14: 546[-]48, New York: Scribner, 1970[-]80
Marun, Jurj Khalil, Shu’ara’ al-amkinah wa-ash’aruhum fi Mu’jam
al-buldan, 2 vols, Beirut: al-Maktabah al-’Asriyah, 1997
Rescher, Oskar, Sachindex zu Wüstenfeld’s Ausgabe von Jâqût’s “Mu’gam el-buldân” (nebst
einem alfabetischen Verzeichnis der darin angeführten Werke),
Stuttgart: Harrassowitz, 1928
Sa’di, ‘Abbas Fadil, Yaqut al-Hamawi: dirasah fi al-turath al-jughrafi
al-’arabi ma’a al-tarkiz ‘ala al-’Iraq fi Mu’jam al-buldan,
Beirut: Dar al-Tali’ah lil-Tiba’ah wa-al-Nashr, 1992
Sellheim, Rudolf, “Neue Materialien
zur Biographie des Yaqut” in Forschungen
und Fortschritte der Katalogisierung der orientalischen Handschriften
in Deutschland, edited by Wolfgang Voigt, Wiesbaden: Steiner,
1966, tables xvi[-]xxxiv
Shami, ‘Abd al-Al ‘Abd al-Mu’nim, Mudun Misr wa-quraha ‘inda Yaqut al-Hamawi,
Kuwait: al-Jam’iyah al-Jughrafiyah al-Kuwaytiyah, 1981
Shamsuddin, Ahmad, Faharis mu’jam al-udaba’, aw, Irshad al-arib
ila ma’rifat al-adib, Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-’Ilmiyah, 1993
Tawanisi, Abu al-Futuh Muhammad, Yaqut al-Hamawi: al-jughrafi al-rahhalah al-adib,
Cairo: al-Hay’ah al-Misriyah al-’Ammah lil-Ta’lif wa-al-Nashr,
1971
‘Umari, Muhammad Abu ‘Abd Allah, Ithaf al-khillan bi-ma’arif Mu’jam al-buldan,
2 vols, Riyadh: Dar al-Sumay’i, 1994
Yemen
Travel
Writing
Arnaud, Th.J., “Relation d’un Voyage
à Mareb (Saba) dans l’Arabie Méridionale, entrepris en 1843”,
Journal Asiatique, 4th series, 5 (1845):
211[-]45, 309[-]45; 6 (1845): 169[-]237
Arnaud, Th.J., Une Mission dans le Yémen [A Mission in the Yemen], 1885
Bent, Theodore and Mrs Theodore Bent,
Southern Arabia, 1900
A missionary couple who travelled openly
as Christian tourists to the Hadhramaut in 1892.
Botta, Paul-Émile, “Mélanges sur l’Yémen
Heureuse”, Archives du Musée
d’Histoire Naturelle, 2 (1841): 63[-]88
Botta, Paul-Émile, Relation d’un Voyage dans l’Yémen [Account
of a Journey into the Yemen], 1841
A botanical journey in 1837 which had
to be abandoned due to Yemeni hostility.
Burchardt, Hermann, “Reiseskizzen aus
dem Yemen”, Zeitschrift
der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (1902): 593[-]610
Burchardt, Hermann, “Die Juden in Jemen”,
Ost und West, 2 (1902):
337[-]42
Burchardt visited Yemen in 1902, 1906[-]07
and 1909.
Bury, G. Wyman, Reports on Journeys to Ansab and Beihan Northeast of Aden in the Western
Hadhramaut, 1901
Bury, G. Wyman, Arabia Infelix, or The Turks
in Yamen, 1915
Bury, who joined the 1898 Austrian
expedition, remained in Aden until after the First World War under
the name Abdulla Mansur and was a famous personality there.
Buxton, L., “A Journey to Sanaa”, Blackwood’s Magazine, 179 (1906): 597[-]617
Cruttenden, Ch. J., “Journal of an
Excursion to Sanaa, the Capital of Yemen”, Transactions
of the Bombay Geographical Society, 1 (1836[-]38): 39[-]55
Cruttenden, Ch. J., “Narrative of a
Journey from Mokha to Sanaa by the Tarik-esh-Sham or Northern
Routes, in July and August 1836”, Journal
of the Royal Geographical Society, 8 (1838): 267[-]89
Deflers, Albert, Voyage au Yémen: Journal d’une excursion botanique faite en 1887 dans les montagnes de
l’Arabie Heureuse [Journey to Yemen: Journal of a Botanical
Excursion in the Mountains of Arabia Felix in 1887], 1889
Fakhry, Ahmed, An Archaeological Journey to Yemen, March[-]May 1947, 3 vols, 1951[-]52
Fayein, Claudie, Une Française Médecin au Yemen, 1955; as
A French Doctor in the Yemen,
translated by Douglas McKee, 1957
Forsskål, Peter, Resa till lycklige Arabien [Journey to
Arabia Felix], 1950
Forsskål’s journal of the 1761[-]63
expedition on which he met his death was only discovered at the
University of Kiel after the First World War.
Glaser, Eduard, “Meine Reise durch
Arhab und Haschid”, Petermanns
Mitteilungen, 30 (1884): 170[-]83, 204[-]13
Glaser, Eduard, “Von Hodeida nach Sanaa
vom 24. April bis 1. Mai 1885”, Petermanns
Mitteilungen, 32 (1886): 1[-]10, 33[-]48
Glaser, Eduard, Ethnographica Jeminica: Auszüge aus den Tagebüchern Eduard Glasers,
edited by Walter Dostal, 1993
Glaser, the leading 19th-century researcher
in south Arabia, was the doyen of Sabaean studies and pre-Islamic
history and visited Yemen four times in the period 1882[-]94,
disguised as a Muslim.
Grohmann, Adolf and Emmanuel Anati,
Expédition Philby-Ryckmans-Lippens en Arabie
1951[-]1952 [The Philby-Ryckmanns-Lippens Expedition in Arabia
1951[-]1952], 1962[-]74 [incomplete; published in parts]
Habshush, Hayyim, Travels in Yemen: An Account of Joseph Halévy’s
Journey to Najran in the Year 1870, edited with a detailed
summary in English by S.D. Goitein, 1941
Haig, F.T., “A Journey through Yemen”,
Proceedings of the Royal
Geographical Society, new series, 9 (1887): 479[-]90
Haig, F.T., “A Journey through the
Yemen”, Missionary Review
of the World, 18/10, (1895): 730[-]37
Halévy, Joseph, “Rapport sur une mission
archéologique dans le Yémen”, Journal
Asiatique, 6th series, 19 (1872): 1[-]98
Halévy, Joseph, “Voyage au Nedjran”,
Bulletin de la Société de
Géographie de Paris, 6 (1873): 5[-]31, 249[-]73, 581[-]606;
13 (1877): 466[-]79
Hamilton, R.A.B., “Six Weeks in Shabwa”,
The Geographical Journal, 100 (1942): 102[-]24
Harris, Walter B., A Journey through the Yemen, 1893
Helfritz, Hans, Geheimnis um Schóbua: Unter südarabischen Beduinen ins Land der Sabäer
[Secret of Shabwa. Among South Arabian Bedouins into the Land
of the Sabaeans], Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1935
Helfritz, Hans, Vergessenes Südarabien. Wadis, Hochhäuser und Beduinen [Forgotten
South Arabia. Wadis, Towers and Bedouins], 1936
Helfritz, Hans, Im Lande der Königin von Saba [In the Land of the Queen of Sheba],
1952
Helfritz, Hans, Glückliches Arabien [Arabia Felix], 1956; as The Yemen: A Secret Journey, translated by M. Heron, 1958
Helfritz, Hans, Entdeckungsreisen in Süd-Arabien: auf unbekannten Wegen durch Hadramaut
und Jemen (1933 und 1935) [Journeys of Discovery in South
Arabia: on Unknown Routes through the Hadhramaut and Yemen], with
text documentation by Harry St John Bridger Philby et
al., 1977
Hirsch, Leo, Reisen in Süd-Arabien, Mahra-Land und Hadramūt [Travels in South
Arabia, Mahra and the Hadhramaut], 1897; reprinted, 1995
Ingrams, Harold, “The Hadhramaut Present
and Future”, The Geographical
Journal, 92 (1938): 289[-]312
Ingrams, Harold, Arabia and the Isles, 1942; 3rd edition,
1966; reprinted, 1997
Ingrams, Harold, “From Cana (Husn Ghurab)
to Sabbatha (Shabwa): The South Arabian Incense Road”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1945):
169[-]85
Ingrams, Harold, The Yemen: Imams, Rulers and Revolutions,
1963
Jamme, Albert, “Une Expédition Archéologique
Américaine en Sud Arabie”, Bulletin
de la Classe des Lettres et des Sciences Morales et Politiques,
Académie Royale de Belgique, 5th series, 36 (1950): 276[-]80
Landberg, Carlo, Critica Arabica, 5 vols, 1886[-]98
Landberg lived for 26 years in the
Orient, passing himself off as a Muslim.
Maltzan, Heinrich von (editor), Adolph von Wrede’s Reise in Hadhramaut
[Aldolph von Wrede’s Journey in the Hadhramaut], 1870; reprinted,
1995
Topographical and geographical descriptions
of the Hadhramaut, its vegetation, its aromatic plants, the political
situation between the tribes and the way of life of the bedouin.
Maltzan, Heinrich von, Reise nach Südarabien, 1873
Manzoni, Renzo, El Yèmen: tre anni nell’Arabia Felice: Escursioni fatte dal Settembre
1877 al Marzo 1880 [The Yemen: Three Years in Arabia Felix:
Excursions from September 1877 to March 1880],
1884
Meulen, Daniël van der, Onbekend Arabië [Unknown Arabia], 1951
Meulen, Daniël van der, and Wissmann,
Hermann von, Hadramaut:
Some of its Mysteries Unveiled, 1932 (with map by Wissmann)
Müller, David Heinrich (editor), S. Langers Reiseberichte aus Syrien und Arabien
[Travel Reports of S. Langer from Syria and Arabia], 1883
Müller, David Heinrich, Die südarabische Expedition der Kaiserlichen
Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien und die Demission des Grafen
Carlo Landberg, 1899
Müller, David Heinrich and N. Rhodokanakis
(editors), Eduard Glasers
Reise nach Mârib, 1913
Müller, W.W., “Ausgrabungen und Forschungsreisen:
Ergebnisse der deutschen Jemen-Expedition 1970”, Archiv für Orientforschung, 24 (1973):
150[-]61
Niebuhr, Carsten, Beschreibung von Arabien aus eigenen Beobachtungen
und im Lande selbst gesammelten Nachrichten, 1772; as Description of Arabia, Made from Personal Observations
and Information Collected on the Spot, translated by C.W.H.
Sealy, 1889
Niebuhr, Carsten, Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden
Ländern, 3 vols, 1774[-]1837; vol. 1, as Travels through Arabia and Other Countries in the East, vol. 1, translated
by Robert Heron, 1792; reprinted, 1994
Niebuhr’s publications contain much
practical information for travellers, as well as making the Orient
seem real, vivid and within reach. The Reisebeschreibung
was very popular and translated into several languages.
Philby, H.St.J.B., “Jauf and the North
Arabian Desert”, The Geographical
Journal, 62 (1923): 242[-]78
Philby, H.St.J.B., The Empty Quarter: Being a Description of the
Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub ´al Khali, 1933
Philby, H.St.J.B., Sheba’s Daughters, Being a Record of Travel
in Southern Arabia, with an Appendix on the Rock Inscriptions
by A.F.L. Beeston, 1939
Philby, H.St.J.B., “Motor Tracks and
Sabaean Inscriptions in Najd”, The
Geographical Journal, 116
(1950): 211[-]15
Philby, H.St.J.B., Arabian Highlands, 1952
Philby, H.St.J.B., Forty Years in the Wilderness, 1957
Phillips, Wendell, Qataban & Sheba: Exploring Ancient Kingdoms
on the Biblical Spice Routes of Arabia, 1955
Pirenne, Jacqueline, À la Découverte de l’Arabie: cinq siècles de
science et d’aventure [In
Search of Arabia: Five Centuries of Science and Adventure], 1958
Playfair, R.L., A History of Arabia Felix or Yemen, 1859; reprinted, 1970
Rathjens, Carl, “Exploration au Yémen”,
Journal Asiatique, 215
(1929): 141[-]55
Rathjens, Carl, Sabaeica: Bericht über die archäologischen Ergebnisse seiner zweiten,
dritten und vierten Reise nach Südarabien [Sabaeica: Report
on the Archaeological Findings of his Second, Third and Fourth
Journey to South Arabia], 2 parts, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum
für Völkerkunde in Hamburg, vol. 24, 1953[-]55
Rathjens, Carl and Hermann von Wissmann,
“Sanaa”, Zeitschrift der
Gesellschaft zur Erdkunde zu Berlin (1929): 329[-]53
Rathjens, Carl and Hermann von Wissmann,
Vorislamische Altertümer,
1932 (Rathjens[-]von Wissmann’sche Südarabien-Reise, vol. 2)
Rathjens, Carl and Wissmann, Hermann
von, Landeskundliche Ergebnisse, 1934(Rathjens[-]von Wissmann’sche Südarabien-Reise,
vol. 3)
Rihani, Ameen, Arabian Peak and Desert: Travel in al-Yaman, 1930
Saphir, Jacob, Even Saphir [Saphir’s Stone], 2 vols, 1866[-]74
His account of Yemen was published
separately as Sefer masa’
Teyman [Travel to Yemen], edited by Avraham Ya’ari, 1945.
Scott, Hugh, “A Journey to the Yemen”,
The Geographical Journal,
93 (1939): 97[-]125
Scott, Hugh, In the High Yemen, 1942
Shapira, M.W., “Arabia Felix”, The Athenaeum, 2733 (1879): 346[-]47
Stark, Freya, The Southern Gates of Arabia: A
Journey in the Hadhramaut, 1936
Stark, Freya, Seen in the Hadhramaut, 1939
Stark, Freya, “Moving Pictures in Arabia”,
Cornhill Magazine, 161
(1944[-]45): 263[-]74
Stark, Freya, The Coast of Incense: Autobiography, 1933[-]1939, 1953
Stern, Henry A., Journal of a Missionary Journey into Arabia
Felix undertaken in 1856, 1858
Tamisier, Maurice, Voyage en Arabie [Journey in Arabia], 1840; reprinted, 1976
Tamisier travelled with the Egyptian
troops who briefly occupied the coastal region of Yemen in 1837
and was the first to describe the Asir region.
Thesiger, Wilfred, Arabian Sands, 1959
Thomas, Bertram, Arabia Felix: Across the “Empty Quarter” of
Arabia, with foreword by T.E. Lawrence, and appendix by Arthur
Keith, 1932
Wallin, G.A., Travels in Arabia (1845[-]1848), introduction by W.R. Mead and M.
Trautz, 1979
Wissmann, Hermann von, Zur Archäologie und antiken Geographie von
Südarabien: Hadramaut, Qataban und das ‘Aden-Gebiet in der Antike
[On the Archaeology and Ancient Geography of South Arabia: Hadhramaut,
Qataban and the Aden Area in Ancient Times], 1968
Wissmann, Hermann von, entries on “Ophir
und Hawila” and “Dedan und Hegra” in Paulys
Real-Encyclopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft [Pauly’s
Encyclopaedia of Classical Archaeology],
supplement, vol. 12, 1970
Wolff, Joseph, Missionary Journal of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, Missionary to the Jews,
vol. 3, 1829
Wolff, Joseph, Researches and Missionary Labours among the Jews, Mohammedans and other
Sects, 1835
Wolff, Joseph, Journal of the Rev. Joseph Wolff … in a Series of Letters to Sir Thomas
Baring, 1839
Wolff, Joseph, Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, vol. 1, 1860
Further
Reading
Altheim, Franz and Ruth Stiehl, Christentum am Roten Meer [Christianity
on the Red Sea], vol. 2, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973
Ansaldi, Cesare, Il Yemen nella storia e nella leggenda
[The Yemen in History and Legend], Rome: Arti Grafiche, 1933
Baumhauer, Otto (editor), Arabien [Arabia], with introduction by
Hermann von Wissmann, Stuttgart: Goverts, 1965
Bidwell, Robin, “Western Accounts of
Sanaa 1510[-]1962” in San’ā’:
An Arabic Islamic City, edited by R.B. Serjeant and Ronald
Lewcock, London: World of Islam Festival Trust, 1983
Daum, Werner (editor), Jemen: 3000 Jahre Kunst und Kultur des Glücklichen
Arabien [Yemen: 3000 Years of the Art and Culture of Arabia
Felix], Innsbruck: Pinguin, and Frankfurt: Umschau, 1987
Dostal, Walter, Eduard Glaser -- Forschungen im Yemen: eine quellenkritische Untersuchung
in ethnologischer Sicht, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie
der Wissenschaften, 1990
Dunlop, D.M., “The Strange Case of
Dr Joseph Wolff”, Journal
of the Royal Central Asian Society, 34/3[-]4 (1947): 320[-]23
Fazy, Robert, “L’Expédition d’Aelius
Gallus en Arabie Méridionale”, Bulletin
de la Société Suisse des Amis de l’extrême-orient, 5 (1943):
3[-]31
Forster, William, England’s Quest of Eastern Trade, London:
A. and C. Black, 1933; reprinted, New York: Barnes and Noble,
1967
Gavin, R.J., Aden under British Rule, 1839[-]1967, London: Hurst, and New York:
Barnes and Noble, 1975
Gidney, W.T., Joseph Wolff, London: London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst
the Jews, 1903
Gidney, W.T., The History of the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the
Jews, from 1809 to 1908, London: London Society for Promoting
Christianity amongst the Jews, 1908
Goren, H., “Kiepert u-Maslulo shel
Shapira be-Teiman” [Kiepert and Shapira’s Travel-Route in Yemen],
Hoveret ha-120 shel Ari’el, edited by Gabriel
Barkai and Eli Shiller, Jerusalem: Ari’el, 1997: 119[-]20, 229[-]34
(map on p.231)
Hamdani, al-Hasan ibn Ahmad, Sifat Gazirat al-’Arab / Geographie der arabischen
Halbinsel [Geography of the Arabian Peninsula], edited by
David Heinrich Müller, 2 vols, Leiden: Brill, 1884[-]91; reprinted,
Frankfurt: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science,
1993
Hansen,
Thorkild, Arabia Felix:
The Danish Expedition of 1761[-]1767, translated by James
McFarlane and Kathleen McFarlane, London: Collins, and New York:
Harper and Row, 1964
Herzl, Theodor, Briefe und Tagebücher, vol. 2: Zionistisches
Tagebuch 1895[-]1899
[Letters and Journals, vol. 2: Zionist Journal 1895[-]1899], edited
by Johannes Wachtel and Chaya Harel, Frankfurt: Propyläen, 1983
Isaacs, Albert Augustus, Biography of the Rev. Henry Aaron Stern, D.D.,
for More than Forty Years a Missionary amongst the Jews, Containing
an Account of His Labours and Travels, London: Nisbet, 1886
Janata, Alfred, “Österreicher in Jemen:
Personen und Aktionen” in his Jemen:
Im Land der Königin von Saba, Vienna: Bundesminsterium für
Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1989
Kammerer, Albert, La Mer Rouge, l’Abyssinie et l’Arabie depuis
l’antiquité, vol. 1,
Cairo: Société Royale de Géographie d’Égypte, 1929
Kiepert , Heinrich, “Schapira’s Reise
in Jemen”, Globus, 38
(1880): 183[-]86
Kiernan, R.H., The Unveiling of Arabia: The Story of Arabian Travel and Discovery,
London: Harrap, 1937; reprinted, New York: AMS Press, 1975
Klein-Franke, Aviva, “Ha-Mishlahat
ha-Mada’it ha-Rishona li-Drom ‘Arav ke-Maqor le-Toldoth Yehudei
Teiman” [The First Scientific Mission to Southern Arabia as a
Source for the History of the Jews in Yemen], Pe’amim,
18 (1984): 80[-]101
Klein-Franke, Aviva, “J. Wolff and
H. Stern: Missionaries in the Yemen” in Interpreting
the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East, edited
by Paul Starkey and Janet Starkey, Reading: Ithaca Press, 2001
Mittwoch, Eugen (editor), Aus dem Jemen: Hermann Burchardts letzte Reise
durch Südarabien [From the Yemen: Hermann Burchardt’s Last
Journey through South Arabia], Leipzig: Deutsche Morgenländische
Gesellschaft and Brockhaus, 1926
Moberg, Axel (editor and translator),
The Book of the Himyarites,
Lund: Gleerup, 1924
Nebes, Norbert, “Orientalistik im Aufbruch:
Die Wissenschaft vom Vorderen Orient in Jena zur Goethezeit” [The
Emergence of Oriental Studies: The Study of the Near East in Jena
in the Time of Goethe], in Goethes
Morgenlandfahrten: West-östliche Begegnungen [Goethe’s Oriental
Journeys: West-East Encounters], edited by Jochen Golz, Frankfurt
and Leipzig: Insel, 1999
Palmer, H.P., Joseph Wolff, His Romantic Life and Travels, London: Heath, Cranton,
1935
Parry, John William, The Story of Spices, New York: Chemical
Publishing, 1953
Philby, H. St J.B., “Joseph Halévy
in the Yemen”, Geographical
Journal, 102 (1943): 116[-]24
Ratzaby, Yehuda, “Shadarim Bilti Noda’im
le-Teiman” [Unknown Emissaries to the Yemen], Sinai, 65 (1969): 111[-]49, 333[-]34
Ratzaby, Yehuda, “Shadarim le-Teiman
be-Shnoth Tarmag, Tarmat” [Emissaries to the Yemen in the Years
1883 and 1889], Hashalem,
1 (1974): 427[-]53
Sacy, Silvestre de, “Antoine Isaac:
La Foudre du Yémen au Conquête du Yémen par les Ottomans”, Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale et autres
bibliothèques, 4
(1799): 412[-]504
Serjeant, R.B., The Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast. Hadrami Chronicles, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1963
Stein, Heidi, “Ulrich Jasper Seetzen
im Jemen” in Ulrich Jasper
Seetzen 1767[-]1811, Leben und Werk: die arabischen Länder und
die Nahostforschung im napoleonischen Zeitalter, Gotha: Forschungs-
und Landesbibliothek, 1995 (see also biography of Seetzen by Norbert
Nebes, pp. 39[-]52)
Wissmann, Hermann von, Zur Geschichte und Landeskunde von Alt-Südarabien
[On the History and Geography of Ancient South Arabia], Vienna:
Böhlau, 1964
Ya’ari, Avraham, “Shlihim me-Eretz
Yisrael le-Teiman” [Emissaries from Palestine to Yemen], Sinai, 4 (1939): 392[-]430
Ya’ari, Avraham, “Shlihim me-Eretz
Yisrael la-’Asereth ha-Shevatim” [Emissaries from Palestine to
the Ten Tribes], Sinai,
6 (1940): 163[-]78
Yavnieli, Shemuel, Masa’ le-Teyman [Travel to Yemen], Tel
Aviv: Miflagat Po’ale Erez Yisrael, 1952
Zemach, Y., Une Mission de l’Alliance au Yémen [A Mission to Yemen by the Alliance],
Paris: Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1911
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of the Kingdom of Siberia...], 1750
Permskaia starina: Sbornik istoricheskikh statei
i materialov preimushchestvenno o permkom krae, vol. 4: Stroganovy i Yermak [Permian Antiquity:
Collected Historical Articles and Sources Chiefly on the Perm
Region, vol. 4: The Stroganovs and Yermak], 1892
Sibirskie letopisi [The Siberian Chronicles],
edited by L.N. and V.V. Maikov, 1907
Istoriia Sibiri, [History of Siberia],
vol. 1, edited by A.I. Andreev et
al., 1937
“Cherepanovskaia
letopis’” [The Cherepanov Chronicle], Istoricheskie
zapiski, 13 (1942): 308[-]23
“Arkheografichekii
obzor spiskov povestei o pokhode Yermaka” [Archaeographic Summary
of Versions of the Accounts of Yermak’s Campaign], Trudy
Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury, 13 (1957): 467[-]82
Yermak’s Campaign in Siberia: A Selection of
Documents, translated
by Tatiana Minorsky and David Wileman, edited by Terence Armstrong,
1975
Further
Reading
Almazov,
Boris, Ataman Yermak so
tovarishchami [Ataman Yermak with Comrades], St Petersburg:
Terra, 1997
Andreev,
A.I., Ocherki po istochnikovedeniiu
Sibiri, vol. 1: XVII
vek [Outline of Source Studies of Siberia ], 2nd edition,
Moscow-Leningrad: Akademiia Nauk SSSR, 1960
Dvoretskaia,
N.A., “Ofitsial’naia i fol’klornaia otsenka pokhoda Yermaka v
XVII v” [Official and Folklore Evaluations of Yermak’s Campaign
in the 17th Century], Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury,
14 (1958): 330[-]34
Fedorov,
E.A., Yermak, Moscow:
Novaia, 1995
Fischer,
J.E., Sibirskaia istoriia
s samogo otkrytiia Sibiri do Zavoevaniia sei zemli rossiiskim
oruzhiem... [Siberian History from the Discovery of Siberia
to Its Conquest by Russian Arms ...], St Petersburg: Akademiia,
1774
Gorelov,
A.A., “Trilogiia o Yermake iz Sbornika Kirshi Danilova: polemicheskie
zametki” [The Yermak Trilogy from Kirsha Danilov’s Book: Polemical
Notes], Russkii fol’klor. Materialy i issledovaniia,
6 (1961): 344[-]76
Ilovaiskii,
D.I., “Yermak i pokoreniie Sibiri” [Yermak and the Subjugation
of Siberia], Russkii vestnik, 9 (1889): 3[-]39
Katanaev,
G.I., “Eshche ob Yermake i ego sibirskom pokhode” [More on Yermak
and His Siberian Campaign], Zapiski
Zapadno-Sibirskogo Otdela Imperatorskogo Russkogo geograficheskogo
obshchestva, 15/2 (1893): 1[-]36
Krasnov,
P.N., Yermak the Conqueror,
translated by Zinaida and Arthur Ruhl, New York: Duffield, 1930
Lantzeff,
George V. and Richard A. Pierce, Eastward
to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier,
to 1750, Montreal: McGill[-]Queen’s University Press, 1973
Longworth,
Philip, The Cossacks,
London: Constable, 1969; New York: Holt Rinehart, 1970
Mel’nikov,
N.M., Ermak Timofeevich,
kniaz sibirskii ego spodvizhniki i prodolzhateli [Yermak Timofeyevich,
Prince of Siberia, His Companions and Successors], Asnières: Rodimogo
Kraia, 1961
Nebol’sin,
Pavel, Pokorenie Sibiri
[The Subjugation of Siberia], St Petersburg: Glazunova, 1849
Preobrazhenskii,
A.A., Ural i Zapadnaia Sibir’
v kontse XVI[-]nachale XVIII veka [The Urals and Western Siberia
in the Late Sixteenth to Early Eighteenth Century], Moscow: Nauka,
1972
Sergeev,
V.I., “K voprosu o pokhode v Sibir’ druzhiny Yermaka” [On the
Siberian Campaign of Yermak’s Band], Voprosy
istorii, 1 (1959): 117[-]29
Slovtsov,
P.A., Pis’ma o Sibiri
[Letters about Siberia], St Petersburg, 1826; Tiumen: Mandriki,
1999
Svin’in,
P.P., Shemiakin Sud; Yermak,
ili Pokorenie Sibiri [Shemiaka’s Tribunal; Yermak or Siberia’s
subjugation], Moscow: Kronos, 1994
Ustrialov,
N.G., Imenitye liudi Stroganovy
[The Distinguished Stroganovs], St Petersburg, 1842
Arthur Young 1741[-]1820
Travel Writing
A Six Weeks Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales, 1768
A Six Months Tour through the North of England, 4 vols, 1770
A Tour in Ireland, with General Observations on the Present State of that
Kingdom,
2 vols, 1780; edited by A.W. Hutton, 2 vols, 1892; reprinted with
introduction by J.B. Ruane, 1970
Travels during the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, 1792; as Travels in France, edited
by M. Betham-Edwards, 1889; edited by Constantia Maxwell, 1929
The Autobiography of Arthur Young, edited
by M. Betham-Edwards, 1898
Further Reading
Allen, Robert C. and Cormac Ó Gráda,
On the Road Again with Arthur
Young, Dublin: University College Dublin, 1986
Amery, G.D., “The Writings of Arthur
Young”, Journal of the Royal
Agricultural Society, 85 (1924)
Defries, Amelia, Sheep and Turnips: Being the Life and Times
of Arthur Young, F.R.S., London: Methuen, 1938
Gazley, John G., “Arthur Young, Agriculturist
and Traveller”, Bulletin
of the John Rylands Library, 37/2 (March 1955): 393[-]428
Gazley, John G., The Life of Arthur Young, Philadelphia:
American Philosophical Society, 1973
Mingay, G.E. (editor), Arthur Young and his Times, London: Macmillan,
1975
Gavin Young 1928[-]2001
Travel
Writing
Return to the Marshes: Life with the Marsh
Arabs of Iraq, 1977
Iraq: Land of Two Rivers, 1980
Slow Boats to China, 1981; as Halfway around the World: An Improbable Journey,
1981
Slow Boats Home, 1985
World’s Apart: Travels in War and Peace,
1987
In Search of Conrad, 1991
From Sea to Shining Sea: A Present Day Journey
through America’s Past, 1995
A Wavering Grace: A Vietnamese Family in War
and Peace, 1997
Eye on the World, 1998
Further
Reading
Maxwell,
Gavin, People of the Reeds,
New York: Harper, 1957
A
book on the Marsh Arabs by one of only two Europeans other than
Young to spend much time with them.
Sherry,
Norman, Conrad’s Eastern
World, London: Cambridge University Press, 1966
A
book on the scenes and historical characters of the Far East featured
in Conrad’s fiction, much praised and often cited by Young in
In Search of Conrad.
Theroux,
Paul, The Great Railway
Bazaar: By Train through Asia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, and
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975
A
famous travel book that suggested to Young the idea for Slow Boats to China and Slow
Boats Home.
Thesiger,
Wilfred, The Marsh Arabs,
New York: Dutton, and London: Longman, 1964
Another
account of the Marsh Arabs, by the legendary explorer who first
encouraged Young to visit them.
Francis Younghusband 1863[-]1942
Travel
Writing
The
Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across
the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral,
1884[-]1894, 1896
India and Tibet, 1910
Further
Reading
Fleming,
Peter, Bayonets to Lhasa:
The First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904,
London: Hart-Davis, and New York: Harper, 1961
Landon,
Perceval, Lhasa: An Account
of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress
of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year
1903[-]04, 2 vols, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1905; as The
Opening of Tibet, New York; Doubleday, 1905
Mehra,
Parshotam, The Younghusband
Expedition: An Interpretation, London: Asia Publishing House,
1968
Mason,
Kenneth, entry on Francis Younghusband in Dictionary
of National Biography, 1941[-]1950, edited by L.G. Wickham
Legg and E.T. Williams, London: Oxford University Press, 1959
Seaver,
George, Francis Younghusband:
Explorer and Mystic, London: John Murray, 1952
Yukon River
Travel Writing
Alaska
Commercial Co., Alaska Commercial
Co.’s Steamship Lines to St Michael and the Yukon River, 1898?
Information
on Alaska steamboat lines.
Bulletin, The, San Francisco, 16 and 21 July 1897
Calder-Marshall,
Arthur (editor), The Bodley
Head Jack London, 1963
Contains
“The Gold Hunters of the North”.
Campbell,
Robert, The Discovery and
Exploration of the Youcon (Pelly) River by the Discoverer, Robert
Campbell, 1885
Early
account of discovery and exploration on the Yukon River.
Carmack,
George, Washington, My Experiences
in the Yukon, 1933
Account
of Klondike gold discoveries by one of the party who discovered
gold in Rabbit Creek (renamed Bonanza Creek) in 1896, triggering
the Klondike goldrush.
Dall,
William H., Alaska and Its
Resources, 1870
One
of the first assessments of the natural wealth and commercial
value of Alaska.
Dall,
William H., Scientific Results
of the Exploration of Alaska, During the Years, 1865[-]1874 by
the Parties Under the Charge of W.H. Dall, 1876
Dall,
William H., Pacific Coast
Pilot: The Coast and Islands of Alaska, 1879
For
many years a standard aid to navigation in Alaskan waters.
Dall,
William H., Report of the
International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, in Response
to the Resolution of the [US] House of Representatives of December
11, 1884, 1885
Dall,
William H., The Yukon Territory;
The Narrative of W.H. Dall, Leader of the Expedition to Alaska
in 1866[-]1868; The Narrative of an Exploration Made in 1887 in
the Yukon District, 1898
DeGraf,
Anna, Pioneering on the
Yukon, 1892[-]1917, edited by Roger S. Brown, 1992
Diary
of a mother who travelled to the Klondike when almost 60 years
old to look for her lost son.
Franklin,
John, Narrative of a Second
Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Seas, in the Years 1825,1826,
and 1827, 1828
Account
of Franklin’s expedition to the Arctic regions of Northwest Canada
and Alaska.
Haskell,
William B., Two Years in
the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-fields, 1896[-]1898: A Thrilling
Narrative of Life in the Gold Mines and Camps, 1998
Entertaining
and literate account of gold prospecting before and after the
Klondike goldrush. Includes a preface by Terrence Cole.
Labor,
Earle, Robert C. Leitz III and I. Milo Shepard (editors), The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, 1993
A
collection of the author’s short stories now considered definitive
by many London scholars.
Lugrin,
Charles, H., Yukon Gold
Fields Map Showing Routes from Victoria, B.C. to the Various Mining
Camps on the Yukon River and its Branches, Mining Regulations
of the Dominion Government and Forms of Application: Together
with a Table of Distances, Extracts from Mr Ogilvie’s Reports,
and other Information, 1897
A
contemporary guide to the gold rush including information on routes,
prospecting equipment and supplies.
Merriam,
C. Hart, Results of a Biological
Reconnaissance of the Yukon River Region, 1900
The
natural history of the Northwest. Includes descriptions of North
American fauna, and Alaskan mammals.
Ogilvie,
William, Report of the Wm
Ogilvie Exploration Survey of the Yukon River District, 1887
Ogilvie,
William, Early Days on the
Yukon and the Story of its Gold Finds, 1913
An
account of discovery and exploration in Alaska and the Yukon Territory.
Pike,
Warburton, Through the Subarctic
Forest: A Record of a Canoe Journey from Fort Wrangel to the Pelley
lakes and Down to the Yukon River to the Behring Sea, 1896
Includes
descriptions of travel in the Northwest Territories and Alaska.
Raymond,
Charles, W., Report of a
Reconnaissance of the Yukon River, Alaska Territory, July to September,
1869, 1871
Russell,
Israel C., A Journey up
the Yukon River, 1889
Includes
descriptions of travel on the Yukon River and in the Yukon Territory.
Russell,
Israel C., An Expedition
to Mount St. Elias, Alaska, 1891
Scidmore,
Eliza, Ruhamah, Appletons’
Guide-Book to Alaska and the Northwest Coast Including the Shores
of Washington, British Columbia, Southeastern Alaska, the Aleutian
and the Seal Islands, the Bering and the Arctic Coasts, the Yukon
River and Klondike District, 1893
Interesting
early guidebook with a panoptic geographical sweep. Includes an
account of the Klondike gold fields.
Schwatka,
Frederick, Along Alaska’s
Great River: A Popular Account of the Travels of the Alaska Exploring
Expedition of 1883, Along the Great Yukon River, from its Source
to its Mouth, in the British North-West Territory, and in the
Territory of Alaska, 1885
Schwatka,
Frederick, A Summer in Alaska.
A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition
Along the Great Yukon River, from its Source to its Mouth, in
the British Northwest Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska,
1891
Descriptions
of travel in Alaska and the Yukon Territory including Yukon River
navigation.
Schwatka,
Frederick, Report of a Military
Reconnaissance Made in Alaska in 1883, 1885
Includes
descriptions of native Americans and travel in Alaska.
Schwatka,
Frederick, Schwatka’s Last
Search: The New York Ledger Expedition through Unknown Alaska
and British America, Including the Journal of Charles Willard
Hayes, 1891, edited by Arland S. Harris, 1996
Schwatka’s
narrative of his 1891 exploration in Alaska published in the New
York Ledger magazine as a series of installments
in 1892. Introduced and annotated by Arland S. Harris.
Stuck,
Hudson, Ten Thousand Miles
with a Dog Sled. A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska,
1914
Whymper,
Frederick, Travel and Adventure
in the Territory of Alaska, Formerly Russian America Now Ceded
to the United States and in Various Other Parts of the North Pacific,
1868
Very
readable and informative account of The Western Union Telegraph
Company Expedition. Describes Russian America before its transfer
to the USA. Beautifully illustrated by the author.
Further Reading
Anderson,
Barry C., Lifeline to the
Yukon: A History of Yukon River Navigation, Seattle: Superior,
1983
Backhouse,
Frances, Women of the Klondike,
Vancouver, BC: Whitecap, 1995
Part
of a body of revisionist history that examines the role of women
in the Klondike.
Bancroft,
Hubert Howe, History of
Alaska, 1730[-]1885, San Francisco: Bancroft, 1886; reprinted,
New York: Antiquarian Press, 1959
Bryce,
George, Sketch of the Life
and Discoveries of Robert Campbell, Chief Factor of the Hon. Hudson’s
Bay Company, Winnipeg: Manitoba Free Press, 1898
Information
on Robert Campbell, Hudson’s Bay Company and exploration of The
Yukon River.
Cantwell,
Margaret, North to Share:
The Sisters of St Ann in Alaska and the Yukon Territory, Victoria,
British Columbia: Sisters of St Ann, 1992
Cohen,
Stan, Yukon River Steamboats:
A Pictorial History, Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories,
1982
Contains
many fine images of Yukon sternwheelers.
Davis,
Richard C. (editor), Sir
John Franklin’s Journals and Correspondence: The Second Arctic
Land Expedition, 1825[-]1827, Toronto: Champlain Society,
1998
Includes
an introduction by Richard C. Davis, biographical material on
Franklin and Franklin’s search for the Northwest Passage.
Driscoll,
Cynthia Brackett, One Woman’s
Gold Rush: Snapshots from Mollie Brackett’s Lost Photo Album,
1898[-]1899, Kalamazoo, Michigan: Oak Woods, 1996
Higginson,
Ian N., “Poetry and Alaska: William Henry Seward’s Alaskan Purchase
and Bret Harte’s ‘An Arctic Vision’”, Arctic,
50/4 (1997): 334[-]48
Article
on the purchase of Alaska, attitudes to the purchase, and the
poetry that it produced.
Higginson,
Ian N., “Jack London’s Klondike Speculation: Capitalist Critique
and the Sled as Heterotopia in The
Call of the Wild”, Polar
Record, 34/191 (1998): 317[-]32
An
analysis of The Call of
the Wild as a socio-economic critique of American society.
Knutson,
Arthur, E., Sternwheels
on the Yukon, Kirkland, Washington: Knutson, 1979
McGuire,
Thomas, 99 Days on the Yukon:
An Account of What was Seen and Heard in the Company of Charles
A. Wolf, Gentleman Canoeist, Anchorage: Alaska Northwest,
1977
Moessner,
Victoria Joan and Joanne E. Gates (editors), The Alaska-Klondike Diary of Elizabeth Robins, 1900, Fairbanks: University
of Alaska Press, 1999
Includes
an introduction by the editors. Keenly observed, sharply focused
account offering insights into the events and people of the period.
Porsild,
Charlene, Gamblers and Dreamers:
Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike, Vancouver, British
Columbia: UBC Press, 1998
Preyde,
James and Susan Preyde,
Yukon Gold: High Hopes and Dashed Dreams,
Surrey, British Columbia: Hancock House, 1995
Information
on Yukon and Klondike river valleys and gold discoveries.
Satterfield,
Archie. Exploring the Yukon
River, Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1979
Van
Deusen, Glyndon G., William
Henry Seward, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
Biography
of Seward, the individual responsible for the purchase of Alaska
by the USA.
Webb,
Melody, The Last Frontier,
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985
Subjects
include frontier and pioneer life, the Yukon River Valley, and
Alaska.
Yarborough,
Linda Finn (editor and translator), Recollections
of the Youkon: Memoires from the Years 1868[-]1885 by François
Xavier Mercier, Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska Historical Society,
1986
Yardley,
Joyce, Yukon Riverboat Days, Surrey, BC: Hancock House, 1996
Insight
into Yukon River life. Including the region (Yukon and Alaska)
its history, riverboats, frontier and pioneer life, social life
and, customs.
Henry Yule 1820[-]1889
Travel
Writing
“Notes
on the Kasia Hills and People”, Journal
of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,
13 (1844): 612[-]631; a few other articles on the antiquities
of India and South-East Asia in the same journal
A Narrative of the Mission sent by the Governor-General
of India to the Court of Ava in 1855, 1858, new edition published
together with the journal of Arthur Phayre, 1968
Translated
and Edited Works
Mirabilia Descripta: The Wonders of the East,
translated by Henry Yule, 1863
Cathay and the Way Thither: Being a Collection
of Medieval Notices of China, translated and edited by Henry
Yule, with a Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China
and the Western Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape
Route, 2 vols, 1866; 2nd edition, revised by Henri Cordier, 4
vols, 1913[-]16
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning
the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, 1871, enlarged 2nd edition,
2 vols, 1875; much revised 3rd edition by Henri Cordier, 2 vols,
1903[-]20
The Diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards
Sir William Hedges), during his Agency in Bengal; as well as on
his Voyage Out and Return Overland (1681[-]1687), transcribed
by R. Barlow, and illustrated by by Henry Yule, 3 vols, 1887[-]89
Other
Works
Introduction
of 90 pages to John Wood, A
Journey to the Source of the River Oxus, 1872 with A. Burnell:
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases,
and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and
Discursive, 1886
Further
Reading
Cordier,
Henri, obituary of Henry Yule in Journal
Asiatique, 8/15
(1890): 243[-]64
C[outts]
T[rotter], entry on Henry Yule in Dictionary
of National Biography,
63 (1900): pages
M[aclagan],
R., obituary of Henry Yule in Journal
of the Royal Asiatic Society,
22 (1890): 220[-]27
Yule,
Amy Frances, “Memoir of Sir Henry Yule” and his Bibliography,
published in the 3rd edition of The
Book of Ser Marco Polo, London: John Murray, 1903
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