Travel to the world by books

American Samoa Australia Cook Islands Fiji French Polynesia Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru New Caledonia New Zealand Niue Northern Mariana Islands Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tokelau Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Wallis and Futuna Islands

Denmark Hägringar: Reise durch Schweden, Lappland, Norwegen und Dänemark Albrecht Pancritius 1852 pdf Italy Ein Jahr in Italien Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr 1853-54 Teil 1 ; Teil 2 ; Teil 3 Italien, Tagebuch einer Reise Karl Scheffler probably 1910, published 1921 pdf Norway Hägringar: Reise durch Schweden, Lappland, Norwegen und Dänemark Albrecht Pancritius 1852 pdf Sweden Hägringar: Reise durch Schweden, Lappland, Norwegen und Dänemark Albrecht Pancritius 1852 pdf Albania Andorra Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic (Czechia)   Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Holy See Hungary Iceland Ireland Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom

  West Indies Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Caribbean Netherlands Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Curaçao Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Falkland Islands French Guiana Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Montserrat Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sint Maarten Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands U.S.A. United States Virgin Islands Uruguay Venezuela

  Canary Islands Prussian Expedition to East Asia (China, Japan, and Siam) 1859-1862 Link South Africa Achtzehn Jahre in Südafrika: Erlebnisse und Abenteuer eines Schweden im Goldlande E. J. Kärrström 1899 (publication) pdf   Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Côte d'Ivoire Djibouti DR Congo Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome & Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia   South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

  Chronology of European exploration of Asia Wikipedia East Indies A voyage to China and the East Indies; Together with a voyage to Suratte;  An Account of the Chinese Husbandry; ... Pehr Osbeck, Olof Torén, Carl Gustav Ekeberg, Johann Reinhold Forster 1771 vol1   vol2 China A voyage to China and the East Indies; Together with a voyage to Suratte;  An Account of the Chinese Husbandry; ... Pehr Osbeck, Olof Torén, Carl Gustav Ekeberg, Johann Reinhold Forster 1771 vol1   vol2 A Journey Through the Chinese Empire Evariste Régis Huc 1871 pub, there are also editions from 1855 vol1   vol2 Prussian Expedition to East Asia (China, Japan, and Siam) 1859-1862 Link Japan The Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613 Ernest M. Satow 1900 pdf Black ships off Japan, opening of Japan 1852 Link Acht Monate in Japan nach Abschluss des Vertrages von Kanagawa Fr. August Lühdorf 1857 pdf Prussian Expedition to East Asia (China, Japan, and Siam) 1859-1862 Link Siam /Thailand Prussian Expedition to Ea

  Details about the boundaries between continents are well-explained in wikipedia . I am going to separate the travel books according to the continents. Americas Asia Europe Africa Australia and Oceania

  The travels of Marco Polo For an introduction, please read wikipedia .   The book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian : concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East Marco Polo 1871 Vol.1 ; Vol 2 updated 1903 Vol.1 ; Vol.2                      

Koizumi Yakumo (小泉 八雲, 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was an Irish-Greek-Japanese writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West. Wikipedia Louisiana subjects La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes (1885) pdf "Gombo Zhèbes": A Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs, Selected from Six Creole Dialects. (1885) pdf epub Chita: A Memory of Last Island (1889) pdf epub Creole Sketches (1878-1880; published 1924) pdf epub West Indies subjects Youma, the Story of a West-Indian Slave (1889) pdf epub Two Years in the French West Indies (1890) pdf epub Japanese (Chinese) subjects   Some Chinese Ghosts (1887) pdf epub Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894) I pdf epub II pdf epub Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan (1895) pdf epub Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (1896) pdf epub Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East (1897) pdf epu

  As many pages all over this blog, this will be a work in progress. We want to find/discover this country on the left.               The Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613 Ernest M. Satow 1900 pdf 1543 - Japan entdeckt? Die Strittigkeit der Entdeckungsdarstellung im Licht der portugiesisch-spanischen Rivalität. Mireta von Gerlach Dissertation University of Tuebingen 2006 pdf        

What's going on? Everything together   2023/1/13           books 103-111 added; link list updated; made sure that this blog information is not lost, registered all the URLs in the WaybackMachine 2023/1/12           added country lists 2023/1/9             MILESTONE 100 books passed : book 85-102 added; I also started cross-referencing interesting information (like details about the authors) on Wikipedia 2023/1/8           book 63-84 added ( Lafcadio Hearn ) 2023/1/7           book 35-62 added 2023/1/6           Blog history and Compendium page added; and a few more books 2023/1/5           a few pictures added to make it more beautiful to look at 2023/1/4           a few books added, especially for the topics Preussische Ostasienexpedition and Perry Expedition 2023/1/3           basic structure added 2023/1/2           Start

A compendium of all books The entries are doubles/copies from the other pages. Due to the unstructured presentation you can find very interesting content which you didn't know that you wanted to find. Just scroll through it!   115. The Art And Architecture Of China Alexander Soper ???? pdf 113-114. A Journey Through the Chinese Empire Evariste Régis Huc 1871 pub, there are also editions from 1855 vol1   vol2 112. Achtzehn Jahre in Südafrika: Erlebnisse und Abenteuer eines Schweden im Goldlande E. J. Kärrström 1899 (publication) pdf 111. Italien, Tagebuch einer Reise Karl Scheffler probably 1910, published 1921 pdf 110. Hägringar: Reise durch Schweden, Lappland, Norwegen und Dänemark Albrecht Pancritius 1852 pdf 107-109. Ein Jahr in Italien Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr 1853-54 Teil 1 ; Teil 2 ; Teil 3 103-106. The book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian : concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East Marco Polo 1871 Vol.1 ; Vol 2 updated 1903 Vol.1 ; Vol.2 100-102. An historical and

 map from 1602 - details see Wikipedia An historical and descriptive account of China; its ancient and modern history, language, literature, religion, government, industry, manners, and social state; intercourse with Europe from the earliest ages; missions and embassies to the imperial court; British and foreign commerce; directions to navigators; state of mathematics and astronomy; survey of its geography, geology, botany, and zoology Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd et al. 1836 Vol 1. Vol 2. Vol 3. A Short History of Japan Ernest Wilson Clement 1915 pdf An introduction to the history of Japan Hara, Katsuro 1920 pdf         under construction, please be patient

  Picture is from Wikipedia: details This page will be forever under construction, please be patient.   Tales of Old Japan: With Illustrations Drawn and Out on Wood by Japanese Artists Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st. Baron Redesdale 1876 pdf A bibliography of the Japanese Empire: Being a Classified List of All Books, Essays and Maps in European Languages ... Vol.I 1859-1893   Vol.II 1894-1906 Fr. von Wenckstern 1895 / 1907 pdf / pdf A History of Japanese Literature William George Aston 1899 pdf Iroka; tales of Japan Kinnosuké Adachi   husband 1900 pdf A History of Chinese Literature Herbert Allen Giles 1901 pdf White aster : a Japanese epic; together with other poems from the German adaptation of Prof. Dr. Karl Florenz Karl Florenz, Tetsujiro Inoue 1906 pdf Die Litteraturen des Ostens in Einzeldarstellungen;  Bd.10: Geschichte der japanischen Litteratur Karl Florenz 1906 pdf Blossoms from a Japanese garden : a book of child-verses Mary McNeil Fenollosa 1913 pdf      

     from Wikipedia: details         A Handbook of the Chinese Language James Summers 1863 pdf A Japanese and English dictionary : with and English and Japanese index James Curtis Hepburn 1867 pdf A Dictionary of Colloquial Idioms in the Mandarin Dialect Herbert Allen Giles 1873 pdf A Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionary James Curtis Hepburn 1897 pdf An English-Dictionary of the Spoken Language Ernest Mason Satow , Ishibashi Masakata 1904 pdf           under construction, please be patient

Picture is from Wikipedia, see details there . This page will be forever under construction, please be patient. The ABC of Japanese Art J.F.Blacker publication between 1911 and 1918 pdf The Arts of Japan Edward Dillon 1909 pdf The Colour-Prints of Japan, An Appreciation and History Edward Fairbrother Strange 1906 pdf Die Japanischen Lackarbeiten der Wiener Weltausstellung im Österreichischen Museum für Angewandte Kunst Anna Minichberger Diplomarbeit Universität Wien  2007 pdf The Art And Architecture Of China Alexander Soper ???? pdf      

The drawing above is from wikipedia, follow the LINK to find details about it.  Huge list of fairy tales: Wikipedia   Japanese fairy world, stories from the Wonder-lore of Japan William Elliot Griffis 1880 pdf Aino Folk-Tales Basil Hall Chamberlain 1888 pdf Japanese fairy tale series  A collection of eighteen Japanese traditional tales and folklore retold in English. David Thomson, T.H.James, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Lafcadio Hearn, James Curtis Hepburn 1885-1899 no.1. : Momotaro. pdf   no.2. : Tongue cut sparrow; Shitakiri suzume. pdf   no.3. : Battle of the monkey and the crab; Sarukani kassen. pdf   no.4. : Old man who made the dead trees blossom. pdf   no.5. : Kachi-Kachi mountain; Kachikachi-yama. pdf   no.6. : Mouse's wedding; Nezumi no yomeiri. pdf   no.7. : Old man & the devils; Kobutori. pdf   no.8. no.9. : Serpent with eight heads; Yamata no orochi. pdf   no.10. : Matsuyama mirror; Matsuyama kagami. pdf   no.11. : Hare of Inaba; Inaba no shirousagi. pdf   no.12. :

Picture from Wikipedia - public domain - more information: Black Ships and Perry Expedition The black ships were the four ships with which Commander Perry arrived in 1853 from America to open Japan with force. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan Performed in the Years 1852, 1853 and 1854 under the Command of Commodore M.C.Perry by M.C.Perry, Francis L. Hawks (1856) pdf pdf pdf pdf Reise um die Erde nach Japan an Board der Expeditions-Escadre unter Commodore M.C.Perry by Wilhelm Heine (1856) Erster Band pdf Zweiter Band pdf   Black Ships Off Japan The story of Commodore Perry's Expedition by Arthur Walvorth (1946) pdf                

 Goethe in Italien - from Wikipedia: details     Travel includes reports of people living in another country. Divided now into travels to the different continents Americas Asia Europe Africa Australia

Preußische Ostasienexpedition   Overview - information obtained mostly from Wikipedia , some missing links added. Germany was still divided into more than 30 countries in the 1850s when Prussia decided to become the leader in Germany and thought that an expedition to East Asia would help obtaining that leadership. It commissioned therefore an expedition to China, Japan and Siam to obtain treaties of commerce. The expedition started in Hamburg with stops in England, Canary Islands, Singapore, China, Japan and Siam. This expedition is detailed in a number of official and unofficial reports (language of pdf reports is German). -------------   Die preußische Expedition nach Ostasien nach amtlichen Quellen, 1. Bd. 1864, Einleitendes zum Verständniss der Japanischen Zustände, Reisebericht, ( Link-to-pdf ) 2. Bd. 1866, Reisebericht, Anhang I u. II, ( Link-to-pdf ) 3. Bd. 1873, China's Beziehungen zum Westen bis 1860, Reisebericht, ( Link-to-pdf ) 4. Bd. 1873, Reisebericht, Anhang I bis IV

When I was young, I thought I would travel all over the world but - due to job and reasons shown in the pictures below, I became stationary and settled. Actually, traveling is also not very sustainable. But I didn't give up the dream and decided to see the world by reading books instead. Mainly, I read in English, French and German - therefore, most of the books presented are in these languages. What is the purpose of this blog, why not just reading? I want to practice writing - in English. It is training on the job. Excuse me if it is bumpy. Knowledge which one does not give away is lost knowledge. So, here is what I found. Hopefully, you too find something nice in these pages. I plan to write about every book I read - one by one. Sometimes, I will just give overviews, sometimes, it will be a detailed review. Probably, the overviews will outweigh the detailed reviews. The time for reading is still limited due to the necessity to work for bread and peanuts. New posts are typically