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Journal articles on the topic "Travellers’ accounts"
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Banerjee, Sanjukta. "Tracing the Local: The Translator-Travellee in French Accounts of India." Tusaaji: A Translation Review 6, no. 6 (December 4, 2018): 66–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1925-5624.40366.
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This paper examines aspects of multilingual India as described in a few eighteenth-century French travel accounts of the subcontinent to underscore the interactional history of representation that the conventions of European travel writing have tended to elide, particularly in the context of the subcontinent. It draws on the notions of fractal and vertical in travel to examine vernacular-Sanskrit relations encountered by the travellers, and to render visible the role of the “translator-travellee” in embedding vernacular knowledge in international discursive networks. Rather than merely questioning the travellers’ often skewed and necessarily partial readings of India’s linguistic plurality, I approach these travel accounts as crucial for understanding the specificity of the region’s multilingualism, one that was largely incommensurable with the typology of language that the accounts seek to establish.
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van den Boogert, Maurits H. "Entangled Travellers." Quaerendo 47, no. 2 (August 11, 2017): 107–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700690-12341378.
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This article offers an analysis of one of the best known eighteenth-century Dutch accounts of the Middle East, the Reizen (Travels) of Johannes Heyman and Johan Ægidius van Egmond van de Nijenburg. On the basis of parts of Heyman’s correspondence which have not been studied before, we will reconstruct both his itinerary and that of Van Egmond. The role of the nominal editor of the volume, J.W. Heyman, will also be examined for the first time.
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Pliszka, Marcin. "Drezno w relacjach polskich osiemnastowiecznych peregrynantów. Rekonesans ." Wiek Oświecenia 36 (November 2, 2020): 26–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/0137-6942.wo.36.2.
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The article analyses descriptions, memories, and notes on Dresden found in eighteenth-century accounts of Polish travellers. The overarching research objective is to capture the specificity of the way of presenting the city. The ways that Dresden is described are determined by genological diversity of texts, different ways of narration, the use of rhetorical repertoire, and the time of their creation. There are two dominant ways of presenting the city: the first one foregrounds the architectural and historical values, the second one revolves around social life and various kinds of games (redoubts, performances).
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Baumgarten, Jean. "Jerusalem in seventeenth‐century travellers’ accounts in Yiddish." Mediterranean Historical Review 7, no. 2 (December 1992): 219–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518969208569642.
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MacRaild, Donald M. "Travellers’ Accounts as Source-Material for Irish Historians." Studies in Travel Writing 18, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 85–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2013.877688.
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Kilgallon, Ann-Marie. "Travellers’ Accounts as Source-Material for Irish Historians." Études irlandaises, no. 35-2 (December 30, 2010): 207–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etudesirlandaises.2106.
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Jackson, Cath, Lisa Dyson, Helen Bedford, Francine M. Cheater, Louise Condon, Annie Crocker, Carol Emslie, et al. "UNderstanding uptake of Immunisations in TravellIng aNd Gypsy communities (UNITING): a qualitative interview study." Health Technology Assessment 20, no. 72 (September 2016): 1–176. http://dx.doi.org/10.3310/hta20720.
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BackgroundGypsies, Travellers and Roma (referred to as Travellers) are less likely to access health services, including immunisation. To improve immunisation rates, we need to understand what helps and hinders individuals in these communities in taking up immunisations.Aims(1) Investigate the barriers to and facilitators of acceptability and uptake of immunisations among six Traveller communities across four UK cities; and (2) identify possible interventions to increase uptake of immunisations in these Traveller communities that could be tested in a subsequent feasibility study.MethodsThree-phase qualitative study underpinned by the social ecological model. Phase 1: interviews with 174 Travellers from six communities: Romanian Roma (Bristol); English Gypsy/Irish Traveller (Bristol); English Gypsy (York); Romanian/Slovakian Roma (Glasgow); Scottish Showpeople (Glasgow); and Irish Traveller (London). Focus on childhood and adult vaccines. Phase 2: interviews with 39 service providers. Data were analysed using the framework approach. Interventions were identified using a modified intervention mapping approach. Phase 3: 51 Travellers and 25 service providers attended workshops and produced a prioritised list of potentially acceptable and feasible interventions.ResultsThere were many common accounts of barriers and facilitators across communities, particularly across the English-speaking communities. Scottish Showpeople were the most similar to the general population. Roma communities experienced additional barriers of language and being in a new country. Men, women and service providers described similar barriers and facilitators. There was widespread acceptance of childhood and adult immunisation, with current parents perceived as more positive than their elders. A minority of English-speaking Travellers worried about multiple/combined childhood vaccines, adult flu and whooping cough. Cultural concerns about vaccines offered during pregnancy and about human papillomavirus were most evident in the Bristol English Gypsy/Irish Traveller community. Language, literacy, discrimination, poor school attendance, poverty and housing were identified by Travellers and service providers as barriers for some. Trustful relationships with health professionals were important and continuity of care was valued. A few English-speaking Travellers described problems of booking and attending for immunisation. Service providers tailored their approach to Travellers, particularly the Roma. Funding cuts, NHS reforms and poor monitoring challenged their work. Five ‘top-priority’ interventions were agreed across communities and service providers to improve the immunisation among Travellers who are housed or settled on an authorised site: (1) cultural competence training for health professionals and frontline staff; (2) identification of Travellers in health records to tailor support and monitor uptake; (3) provision of a named frontline person in general practitioner practices to provide respectful and supportive service; (4) flexible and diverse systems for booking appointments, recall and reminders; and (5) protected funding for health visitors specialising in Traveller health, including immunisation.LimitationsNo Travellers living on the roadside or on unofficial encampments were interviewed. We should exert caution in generalising to these groups.Future workTo include development, implementation and evaluation of a national policy plan (and practice guidance plan) to promote the uptake of immunisation among Traveller communities.Study registrationCurrent Controlled Trials ISRCTN20019630 and UK Clinical Research Network Portfolio number 15182.FundingThis project was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment programme and will be published in full inHealth Technology Assessment; Vol. 20, No. 72. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information.
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Banerjee, Sanjukta. "Tracing the Local: The Translator-Travellee in French Accounts of India." Tusaaji: A Translation Review 6, no. 1 (May 24, 2019): 66–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1925-5624.40354.
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This paper seeks to trace the presence of the “translator-travellee” in the construction and dissemination of French travel writing on India from the eighteenth century. Drawing on the concept of “language as a local practice” (Pennycook 2010), it examines the travellers’ descriptions of India’s linguistic landscape to underscore the interactional history of representation that the conventions of European travel writing have tended to elide, particularly in the context of the subcontinent. The local in this paper is approached as a process inextricably linked with the social and the historical, and its exploration is aimed at rendering visible the role of the Indian translator/interpreter in embedding vernacular knowledge in international discursive networks at a crucial period in the subcontinent’s encounter with the West.
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Singh, Anuradha. "Buddhism in Sarnath: An Account of Two Chinese Travellers." Space and Culture, India 2, no. 2 (November 1, 2014): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v2i2.87.
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This paper aims to draw the religious life in Sarnath (and Varanasi) as accounted by the Chinese travellers—Fa-Hien and Hiuen-tsang. The accounts not only talk about the stupas, pillars, statues built by King Ashoka; vihars and monks (bhikshus) living in those vihars but also contain the first preachings of Lord Buddha, establishment of Sangha and the story of Mrigajataka that remain significant. With the increased popularity of Buddha dharma in China, the Chinese were attracted towards travelling to India. They came to India mainly with the intentions to visit the places related to the fond memories of Lord Buddha, to study the Buddha religion and philosophy and carry the copies of the Buddhist compositions. Fa-Hien and Hiuen-tsang occupy significant places among these Chinese travellers. These accounts can be associated with ancient history as well as with historical geography, religion and philosophy. While Fa-hien in his journey details had described about the Buddha Empire, Hiuen-tsang highlighted the civilisation of India and its cultural landscape, albeit it has been often accepted by the historians that these accounts of their journeys should be considered as significant only when they are backed by historical evidences. They opine that these travellers were mainly influenced by the Buddha dharma and therefore, their accounts are liable to containing exaggerated journey details. It is true that the journey details contain few imaginary instances; nevertheless, these accounts have been validated by the remnants, stupas and vihars at the sites.
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Culea, Mihaela, and Andreia-Irina Suciu. "ROMANIAN TRAVELLERS TO ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. NATIONAL SPECIFICITY IN ION CODRUDRĂGUȘANU’S TRAVEL ACCOUNTS." Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 20, no. 2 (July 2017): 5–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5782/2223-2621.2017.20.2.5.
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The complexity of the travelling experience cannot be understood outside the scope of culture (see, for instance, Schulz-Forberg 2005) and travelling is thus often discussed in relation to the human being‟s thirst for knowledge, intellectual or spiritual enlightenment, aesthetic refinement, often as a result of cultural contact, interaction, transfer or exchange. The travelling experiences of Romanian travellers to England through the centuries have been inspired by many of these goals. This paper focuses on the travel accounts of a little known Romanian traveller to England in the nineteenth century, namely, writer, teacher, journalist and politician Ion Codru-Drăgușanu (1818–1884). His travel accounts reveal that travelling was perceived as a source of intellectual improvement, maturation, cultural development, interaction and exchange, as a process of gaining knowledge, an experience also counterbalanced by a tourist‟s adventure dominated by curiosity, pleasure and amusement. In order to reveal how this shift takes place and the multi-fold significance of the travelling experience as such, the paper‟s structure combines theoretical data with textual study and seeks to rediscover forgotten personalities of the Romanian culture who made English-Romanian encounters more numerous and productive. Firstly, the paper presents the conceptual distinctions between the term traveller and other related words, such as voyager, tourist, pilgrim, explorer, or migrant. Secondly, it makes a brief overview of travelling in history and of travel writing with the purpose of contextualizing Codru-Drăgușanu‟s travels. Thirdly, the synoptic presentation of the literary background related to travels to and from Romania in the nineteenth century as well as the brief review of the historical and cultural context specific to England in that period assist us in our exploration of the written accounts of travels recorded by CodruDrăgușanu in his Peregrinul transilvan. 1835–1848 (The Transylvanian Traveller. 1835– 1848).
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Travellers’ accounts"
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Shafer, John Douglas. "Saga-accounts of Norse far-travellers." Thesis, Durham University, 2010. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/286/.
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The thesis examines the medieval Icelandic sagas’ many accounts of travel taken by Scandinavian characters to lands in the distant north, south, east and west. These Norse far-travellers have various motivations for their journeys, and particular motivations and motifs are associated with each cardinal direction. Travel to the distant west and north, for example, is typified by commercial motivations: real estate and settlement schemes in the west, trade and tribute-collection in the north. Travel to the distant east frequently takes the form of royal exile, and piety is often the central motivation for journeys to the distant south. Other sorts of narrative patterns are also discussed. It is shown, for example, that there is a sort of “moral geography” evident in the literature, whereby journeys towards “holy” regions (east and south) are more spiritually beneficial than journeys in the opposite directions. The study systematically identifies and discusses saga-accounts of far-travel, surveying the various purposes and themes associated with each of the cardinal directions. The first chapter introduces the material and key terms and provides a survey of the relevant scholarship. The following four chapters cover far-travel in each of the four directions, west, south, east and north respectively. The primary-text examples cited throughout support literary observations, and the conclusions drawn are all focused on literary aspects of the texts. Additionally, some historical observations are occasionally made, though these are never the main focus of the arguments. The sixth and final chapter supplements the concluding sections of these four main chapters and draws additional conclusions. The concluding chapter also offers a diagrammatic representation of the relationships between the various motivations for far-travel in the different cardinal directions.
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Hardy, Marion Ruth. "Poor travellers on the move in Devon, 1598-c.1800." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30139.
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This study examines poor travellers who were on the move during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The focus is the County of Devon, with Exeter dealt with only briefly as it was a separate county. It is shown that the travellers, including numbers of Irish in the seventeenth century and foreign-born, particularly in the eighteenth century, were affected by a number of factors, but that the most important influence on their numbers and types was the incidence of wars. Economic factors, such as food supply, were of some importance, but the economy too was influenced by the effects of wars. Legislation also was found to have had less influence than expected. However, the legislation effective from 1700 did have a marked impact on the documentation available. The main sources used for this study are the parochial documents provided by churchwardens’ accounts of payments made to travellers in need and some of those of the parish overseers. These are supplemented by the records of Devon’s County Quarter Sessions. A combination of Devon’s geography, its strong international maritime connections and the influence of wars and their locations combined to affect the chronological and spatial variations in the numbers and types of travellers through the two centuries.
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Rackwitz, Martin. "Travels to terra Incognita the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides in early modern travellers' accounts c. 1600 to 1800." Münster New York München Berlin Waxmann, 2004. http://www.waxmann.com/kat/1699.html.
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Salmon, Olivier. "Alep dans la littérature de voyage européenne pendant la période ottomane." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040063.
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Cette thèse établit un corpus de plus de quatre cents voyageurs et auteurs européens, passés ou non par Alep pendant la période ottomane (1516-1918), dont les œuvres évoquant la métropole syrienne relèvent de la littérature de voyage. Centre économique, religieux et culturel, situé à la croisée des routes entre l’Europe, l’Asie et l’Afrique, Alep est un lieu de séjour ou de passage pour de nombreux voyageurs aux motivations diverses. La mise en texte de leur expérience viatique peut prendre des formes variées et subit l’influence des modèles rhétoriques classiques, en particulier celui de l’éloge de la cité à l’origine d’un certain nombre de topoi : la ville est propre et bien bâtie, son air est pur, ses jardins agréables, ses habitants tolérants et raffinés. Ces clichés sont répandus dans le temps, dans l’espace et à travers plusieurs genres littéraires. Leur diffusion est favorisée par les pratiques intertextuelles, mais ils ne sont pas constitutifs d’un regard européen spécifique, les sources orientales orales et écrites intervenant dans la construction du savoir sur la ville. L’originalité d’Alep repose dans la rareté des souvenirs chrétiens, gréco-romains et croisés, qui entraîne une faible fréquentation au XIXe siècle malgré l’importance de la métropole. Ce paradoxe révèle ainsi ce que recherchent principalement les voyageurs européens : eux-mêmes à travers leur propre passéThe thesis establishes a corpus of more than four hundred European travellers and authors, passed or not through Aleppo during the Ottoman period (1516-1918), whose works evoke the Syrian metropolis within travel literature. As economic, cultural and religious centre located at the crossroads between Europe, Asia and Africa, Aleppo is a place of transit or residence for many travellers coming for different motivations. Their travel accounts can take many forms and are influenced by classical rhetorical models, particularly the praise of the city generating some topoi: the city is clean and well built, its air is pure and its gardens pleasant, the inhabitants are refined and tolerant. These topoi are scattered in time, space as well as in many literary genres. Their diffusion is favoured by the intertextual practices, but they do not reflect a specific European perspective, as Eastern sources – oral and written – take part in constructing knowledge about the city. The originality of Aleppo lies in scarcity of Christian, Greco-Roman and Crusaders recollections, which leads to low presence in the nineteenth century despite the importance of the city. This paradox reveals what European travellers look mainly for: themselves through their own history
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Mullane, Fidelma. "La cabane revisitée : réhabilitation de l'architecture vernaculaire irlandaise (XVIIe-XIXe siècles)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040200.
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Tout au long de l’histoire coloniale, les habitations des classes irlandaises les plus modestes, les cabanes, furent décrites par les étrangers, Anglais pour la plupart, comme étant des constructions plus que médiocres, preuves de la nature « sauvage » et « barbare » des indigènes. Le caractère enfumé, le toit de chaume, le tas de fumier, et la cohabitation entre humains et animaux, ont été interprétés à partir de préjugés et de stéréotypes raciaux et non pas explicités en tant qu’expressions de conditions économiques, sociales, politiques ou environnementales. La thèse démontre que ces techniques vernaculaires observées au sein des habitations et autres constructions, telles que, l'enfumage et l'imprégnation de suie au niveau des murs en tourbe et des toits, avaient une raison d’être : ces pratiques étaient destinées à créer des matériaux capables d’enrichir le sol. La façon dont les matériaux étaient utilisés, le savoir-faire et la qualité de la transmission, désignés dans cette thèse sous le terme de « métis », ne fait que mettre en valeur la sagesse des autochtones capables de susciter des stratégies nécessaires à la survie. La réorientation des modèles architecturaux vernaculaires permettra d’établir une nouvelle définition de la construction traditionnelle pour aboutir à une approche reconfigurée et plus inclusive ainsi qu'à une meilleure compréhension de ses dimensions historiques et ethnographiques. Cette reconfiguration des études interdisciplinaires, ouverte aux différents paradigmes, inclurait la sagesse de la tradition. Ceci changerait la manière dont l’architecture vernaculaire pourrait être étudiée, gérée et réévaluéeTaking the Irish cabin as object, this thesis deconstructs the outsider accounts and their contribution to a negative interpretation of such, particularly within the context of postcolonial scholarly literature. Such outsider accounts have an added significance in scholarship in so far as they retained a strict uniformity even while other formal studies changed perspective. This reveals certain ideological assumptions which are examined. The collision between the imposition of a dominating knowledge and practices drawn from indigenous wisdom is examined through the prism of descriptions and interpretations of materials and labour in specific ecological and economic contexts. A case study in the Claddagh village in the West of Ireland examines these contradictions in detail. The survival of such outsider accounts has had its consequence in contemporary constructions as to the meaning and function of the vernacular house. The recovery of the Irish cabin as an object of study within vernacular architecture must be achieved within a context of examining clearance, changes in housing and the major restructuring of economy and society occasioned by the Great Famine. The recovery of a proper account of their function as perceived by those who lived in such habitations in the rural economy is central to this thesis
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Ignatov, Ivan Ivanovich. "Eastward Voyages and the Late Medieval European Worldview." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Humanities and Creative Arts, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9187.
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This thesis explores the nature of the late medieval European worldview in the context of the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century European journeys to Asia. It aims to determine the precise influence of these journeys on the wider European Weltbild. In lending equal weight to the accounts of the eastward travellers and the sources authored by their counterparts in Europe, who did not travel to Asia, the present study draws together two related strands in medieval historiography: the study of medieval European cosmology and worldview, and the study of medieval travel and travel literature. This thesis treats the journeys as medieval Europe’s
interaction with Asia, outlining how travellers formed their perceptions of ‘the East’ through their encounters with Asian people and places. It also explores the transmission of information and ideas from travellers to their European contemporaries, suggesting that the peculiar textual culture of the Middle Ages complicated this process greatly and so minimised the transfer of ‘intact’ perceptions as the travellers originally formed them. The study contends instead that the eastward journeys shaped the late medieval European world picture in a different way, without overturning the concepts that underpinned it. Rather, this
thesis argues, thirteenth- and fourteenth-century eastward voyages subtly altered how Europeans were inclined to understand these underpinning concepts. It suggests that the journeys intensified and made the concepts more immediate in Europeans’ minds and that they ‘normalised’ travel itself to the point where it became an essential part of the way Europeans could most readily make sense of the vast and kaleidoscopic world around them.
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Chittick, Sharla. "Pride and prejudice, practices and perceptions : a comparative case study in North Atlantic environmental history." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3702.
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Due to escalating carbon-based emissions, anthropogenic climate change is wreaking havoc on the natural and built environment as higher near-surface temperatures cause arctic ice-melt, rising sea levels and unpredictable turbulent weather patterns. The effects are especially devastating to inhabitants living in the water-worlds of developing countries where environmental pressure only exacerbates their vulnerability to oppressive economic policies. As climatic and economic pressures escalate, threats to local resources, living space, safety and security are all reaching a tipping point. Climate refugees may survive, but they will fall victim to displacement, economic insecurity, and socio-cultural destruction. With the current economic system in peril, it is now a matter of urgency that the global community determine ways to modify their behaviour in order to minimize the impact of climate change. This interdisciplinary comparative analysis contributes to the dialogue by turning to environmental history for similar scenarios with contrasting outcomes. It isolates two North Atlantic water-worlds and their inhabitants at an historical juncture when the combination of climatic and economic pressures threatened their survival. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Hebrideans in the Scottish Insular Gàidhealtachd and the Wabanaki in Ketakamigwa were both responding to the harsh conditions of the ‘Little Ice Age.’ While modifying their resource management, settlement patterns, and subsistence behaviours to accommodate climate change, they were simultaneously targeted by foreign opportunists whose practices and perceptions inevitably induced oppressive economic pressure. This critical period in their history serves as the centre of a pendulum that swings back to deglaciation and then forward again to the eighteenth century to examine the relationship between climate change and human behaviour in the North Atlantic. It will be demonstrated that both favourable and deteriorating climate conditions determine resource availability, but how humans manage those resources during feast or famine can determine their collective vulnerability to predators when the climate changes. It is argued that, historically, climate has determined levels of human development and survival on either side of the North Atlantic, regardless of sustainable practices. However, when cultural groups were under extreme environmental and economic pressure, there were additional factors that determined their fate. First, the condition of their native environment and prospect for continuing to inhabit it was partially determined by the level of sustainable practices. And, secondly, the way in which they perceived and treated one another partially determined their endurance. If they avoided internal stratification and self-protectionism by prioritising the needs of the group over that of the individual, they minimised fragmentation, avoided displacement, and maintained their social and culture cohesion.
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Jones, Olimpia P. "European travellers in nineteenth century Russia : an analysis of travel accounts on Russia under Tsar Nicholas I." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/19932.
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Rackwitz, Martin [Verfasser]. "Travels to terra incognita : the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides in early modern travellers' accounts c. 1600 to 1800 / vorgelegt von Martin Rackwitz." 2004. http://d-nb.info/975467425/34.
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Harrison, Oliver J. "‘The Paradise of the Southern Hemisphere’: The Perception of New Zealand and the Maori in Written Accounts of German-speaking Explorers and Travellers 1839-1889." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/703.
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The aim of this research is to examine the much neglected body of writings on New Zealand and the Maori by German-speaking explorers and travellers during the colonising period of the 1840s to 1880s. To the nineteenth-century breed of visitor from Germany and Austria, 'Old' New Zealand often presented itself as an unexplored field of scientific curiosities, from botany and geology to ornithology and ethnology, at the same time as a paradise for immigrant workers. The investigation begins with an evaluation of the eighteenth-century account of Georg Forster, who accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the South Pacific. Forster's account is entrenched in the early racial stereotypes and theories of the 'savage', and provides the first major primary source for all of German-speaking Europe up to the period under investigation. The second main source to be considered is the dominant 'paradise' image which evolved out of the propaganda of the New Zealand Company and continued right through the colonising era. The principal figures to be examined include Ernst Dieffenbach, the official Company naturalist, Friedrich August Krull, the first German Consul in New Zealand, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, the resident geologist on the Novara expedition, Julius von Haast, the founder and director of the Canterbury Museum, Andreas Reischek, the taxidermist and collector, as well as other notable visitors including Max Buchner, Franz Reuleaux, Otto Finsch, Alexander von Hübner and Robert von Lendenfeld. Thus, it is the goal of this investigation to analyse the perception of New Zealand and the Maori in selected works by German-speaking explorers and travellers who arrived in the colony between 1839 and 1889 through, first of all, confronting the prevailing stereotypes and images inherent in the philosophical attitudes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries towards the 'savage' and those present in the 'paradise' rhetoric of the British campaigners of colonisation, and secondly, examining the origins, patterns and evolution of their respective perceptions, impressions and opinions in order to reveal the true extent of their non-British 'Germanic' viewpoint.
Books on the topic "Travellers’ accounts"
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Travellers' accounts as source-material for Irish historians. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009.
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American travellers abroad: A bibliography of accounts published before 1900. 2nd ed. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 1999.
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Gamble, David P. The Gambia: Place names on maps and in travellers' accounts up to 1825. Brisbane, Calif: D.P. Gamble, 1999.
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Mechanical arts & merchandise: Industrial espionage and travellers' accounts as a source for technical historians. Eindhoven, Netherlands: De Archaeologische Pers, 1986.
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Woolrich, A. P. Mechanical arts & merchandise: Industrial espionage and travellers' accounts as a source for technical historians. Eindhoven, Netherlands: Archaeologische Pers, 1989.
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Goa travels: Being the accounts of travellers from the 16th to the 21st century. New Delhi: Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2014.
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Francis, Simon. Pictures of the palace: Travellers' accounts of the Brunei of Sultan Abdul Momin and Sultan Hashim between 1881 and 1906. [Hull, England]: Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull, 1993.
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Das, Amarnath. India and Jambu Island: [s]howing changes in boundaries and river courses of India and Burmah from pauranic, Greek, Budhhist, Chines[e] and western travellers' accounts. Delhi, India: Vidya Publishers Distributors, 1985.
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Flandrau, Charles Macomb. Viva Mexico: A traveller's account of life in Mexico. London: Eland, 1990.
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Saminʻ, Mhūʺ. Khakabo traveller: Yein Nwe Parr military column leader's personal travel accounts of the border region. Yangon: Nan Devi Publishing House, 2012.
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Jansson, Åsa. "Diagnosing Melancholia in the Victorian Asylum." In From Melancholia to Depression, 173–207. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54802-5_6.
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Abstract This chapter takes a close look at the mutually constitutive relationship between asylum casebooks and published literature on mental disease. It follows melancholia as it travelled back and forth between the casebook and the textbook, emerging as an increasingly coherent diagnosis. While medical literature presented melancholia in remarkably standardised terms toward the end of the century, by comparing published accounts with asylum journal notes from major county asylums situated in different parts of the country, this chapter shows how a vast and vastly divergent range of human expressions and experiences were moulded to fit increasingly narrow diagnostic criteria, and brings into focus the conflicts that arise and the negotiations that take place when complex human emotions are labelled and categorised as mental disorders.
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Biesele, Megan. "Trackers’ Consensual Talk: Precise Data for Archaeology." In Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks, 385–96. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60406-6_20.
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AbstractThis paper is based on ethnographic research with Ju|’hoan San in Botswana starting in 1970 and on translation and transcription work with Ju|’hoan San trackers from Namibia who travelled to the Caves du Volp in the French Pyrenees in 2013 to do archaeological work. The Tracking in Caves project, headed by German archaeologists Andreas Pastoors and Tilman Lenssen-Erz, was investigating fossilized human footprints in the caves dating back to around 17,000 calBP. The paper discusses three main verbal formats that can provide useful information to the archaeology of tracking: (1) narrative in the form of folktales and other oral forms referring to animal behaviour, (2) talk in the form of accounts of actual hunts, and (3) consensual discussion in the form of deliberations among trackers as they seek to gain many types of information from tracks. The paper outlines how the trackers and the archaeologists, after an initial period of misunderstanding and miscommunication, mutually learned from each other and eventually bonded on the basis of the scientific method. It does so by drawing on evidence from narrative, talk, and consensual discussion. By investigating verbal data provided by People’s Science, the Tracking in Caves project shows us that skill in tracking, using the tools of egalitarian communication and based on extensive environmental knowledge, has been an enabling feature of the long human story.
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"The pilgrimage remembered: South Asian accounts of the hajj Barbara D. Metcalf." In Muslim Travellers, 107–30. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315002583-16.
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"The Changbaishan According to Travellers’ Accounts." In Man and Nature in the Altaic World., 255–60. De Gruyter, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783112208885-031.
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"The ambivalence of rihla: community integration and self-definition in Moroccan travel accounts, 1300-1800 Abderrahmane El Moudden." In Muslim Travellers, 91–106. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315002583-15.
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"Appendix 1. Accounts of Travel in Scotland Written by Women during the Period 1740-1830." In Tourists and Travellers, 145–49. Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.21832/9781845411190-010.
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Niayesh, Ladan. "Reterritorializing Persepolis in the First English Travellers’ Accounts." In Beyond Greece and Rome, 115–31. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767114.003.0006.
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Taking its cue from Maurice Halbwachs’s concept of collective memory, Pierre Nora’s memory sites, and Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of reterritorialization, this chapter considers some early modern European responses to the classically received Eastern site of Persepolis. Focusing more particularly on a sequential treatment of the published accounts left by the first three English travellers reported to have visited the ruins of Persepolis, it analyses how each of them builds on templates left by his predecessors while gradually adjusting to receding biblical preoccupations, emergent antiquarianism, and the takeover of the aesthetics of seventeenth-century classicism.
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"Chapter I: Seventeenth-Century Travel Accounts." In British Travellers in Holland during the Stuart Period, 17–63. BRILL, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004246942_003.
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"Appendix III: Orrery Accounts 1686-9." In British Travellers in Holland during the Stuart Period, 329–42. BRILL, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004246942_010.
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Beinart, William, and Lotte Hughes. "Imperial Travellers." In Environment and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199260317.003.0010.
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In a global maritime empire, travel was intrinsic. As sailors and slavers, traders and hunters, Europeans traversed colonized space and literacy gave them the power to record what they saw and found. In their mapping and classification of lands and peoples, many of these travellers helped to commodify and package the resources of empire. In their fulsome descriptions of the riches of overseas territories, they made these lands and all that they contained desirable to prospective hunters, settlers, speculators, and administrators. The direct uses that imperial powers made of traveller’s accounts were hinted at in 1887 by British explorer and geologist Joseph Thomson, in a note to the second edition of his best-selling Through Masai Land. “Then [1885] Masai land was for the first time made known to the world; now it has come within the “sphere of British influence”—a delicate way, I suppose, of saying that it now practically forms a part of our imperial possessions.’ In fact British East Africa, of which Maasailand formed a large part, was not established for another eight years, in 1895. But Thomson anticipated accurately: having ‘discovered’ and mapped a direct route from the coast to Lake Victoria, which cut right across Maasailand to Uganda, and described the rich pickings (including fertile land, valuable pastures, water sources, timber, and game animals) that lay along the route, he had paved the way for European trade and takeover. Sir John Kirk, British agent and consul at Zanzibar, wrote that Thomson’s ‘admirable description is the only reliable one we yet possess of the region thus secured to us, if we choose to avail ourselves of the opportunity’. Britain, anxious about Germany’s competitive ambitions, duly took it. From the mid-eighteenth century a particular kind of traveller did more than most to promote the natural potential of empire: those who combined touring with botany and other scientific, or quasi-scientific, enquiries. The avid collection of specimens—from fauna and flora through, in some cases, to human body parts—had become an adjunct to the European adventurer’s taxonomy of the natural world. Since European expansion coincided with the development of print, as illustrated in our chapter on hunting, the production and publication of texts became a by-product of travel.
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Lim, Serena, Kayvan Pazouki, and Alan J. Murphy. "Holistic Energy Mapping Methodology for Reduced Fuel Consumption and Emissions." In ASME 2017 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2017-61945.
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There are increasing concerns and regulations regarding the emission of pollutants from shipping. Therefore, regulations such as the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP) and Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) have been made mandatory to cope with climate change concerns. To put these efforts into practice, the Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator (EEOI) was introduced in 2009 to account for the fuel consumption, distance travelled by the vessel and cargo mass. However, it is stated that these do not apply to ships that are not engaged in transport work such as research vessels and tugboats. These short sea shipping vessels have been neglected under current indexes and it is not possible for their properties to be quantified since current indices are for vessels carrying loads. The numbers of these specialised vessels are increasing in local waters, and are closer to coastal communities where concerns and impact from these pollutants would be more direct. In the IMO greenhouse gas study, options for improving energy efficiency in terms of design includes the concept, design speed and capability, hull and superstructure, power and propulsion whilst the principle of energy efficiency in terms of operation includes fleet management, logistics and incentives, voyage optimisation and energy management. A reliable energy flow breakdown architecture and diagnostics for these smaller vessels is important and will contribute to an understanding of the energy production, distribution and consumption on-board. This feeds into the IMO plan to encourage energy management. A systematic approach consisting of five distinct stages is recommended to accomplish a holistic approach for energy efficiency management. This includes understanding of energy flow breakdown architecture, vessel survey to understand operation and conduct, review existing sensors and new sensor installation, sensor communication and data processing, and finally data analysis. These stages are addressed in this paper to provide an overall understanding of a robust energy efficiency audit procedure and sensor matrix. This includes unifying the existing on-board sensors with the proposed new sensors for additional data collection where primary parameters are not readily available. Inferred secondary parameter calculations are also applied where direct data collection is not possible. This will allow information from the vessel to be transmitted to a common platform to enable detailed data analysis. The aim of this work is to improve energy management and monitoring, which leads to understanding and managing consumption of energy. A case study of this methodology has been carried out on the Princess Royal, a Newcastle University research vessel. Recommendations for further testing and optimisation of this methodology will be applied to tugboats and Offshore Supply Vessels (OSV).