Journey to the Orient
Journey to the Orient

Author: Gérard de Nerval

Publisher:

Published: 2012-08-10

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780988202603

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More than just an account of his travels in Cairo, Beirut, and Constantinople in 1842, Gerard de Nerval's "Journey to the Orient" is a quest for the unknown. If his narrator seems credulous in his retelling of legends of the origins of the pyramids and the mysteries of the Druzes, it is with this purpose in mind. While the Orientalists of his day were confident of having, in the words of Edward Said, "grasped, appropriated, reduced, and codified" the Orient, Nerval's Orient remains elusive, impossible to grasp. Poignantly dramatized in the thematic centerpieces of the tales of the Queen of Sheba and the Caliph Hakim, what takes shape in this visionary travelogue, as the author's hopes are alternately disappointed and rapturously renewed, is the story of the artist's search for the ideal.

A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient
A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient

Author: Paul E. Hoffman

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2004-11-01

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780807130285

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Paul E. Hoffman's groundbreaking book focuses on a neglected area of colonial history -- southeastern North America during the sixteenth-century. Hoffman describes expeditions to the region, efforts at colonization, and rivalries between the French, Spanish, and English. He reveals the ways in which the explorers' expectations -- fueled by legends -- crumbled in the face of difficulties encountered along the southeastern coast. The first book to link the earliest voyages with the explorations of the sixteenth century and the settlement of later colonies, Hoffman's work is an important reassessment of southern colonial history.

North to the Orient
North to the Orient

Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1935

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780156671408

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Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1935.

French Romantic Travel Writing
French Romantic Travel Writing

Author: Christopher W. Thompson

Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0199233543

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A pioneering overview of the travel books produced by fourteen French Romantic writers - including Chateaubriand, Staël, Stendhal, Hugo, Nerval, Sand, Mérimée, Dumas, and Tristan - whose journeys ranged from Peru to Russia and from North America to North Africa and the Near East.