Orientations

• East European Travel Writing: A Guide to Orientation
• p. xi

• I
• Europe in All its Variety (16 th -18 th centuries)
• p. 1

• Words for the Traveller
• p. 3

• A Phrasebook for Captives (1544)
• p. 5

• Against Travel (1564)
• p. 6

• Instructions for Travel: Ars apodemica (1639)
• p. 8

• Paternal Advice (1656)
• p. 10

• He who has this book in his home, has a great treasure (1742)
• p. 12

• Variations: Pilgrims, Emissaries, Scholars and Adventurers
• p. 13

• Journey to the Occident (1546)
• p. 14

• A Land so Foreign to Ours (1553)
• p. 19

• Pilgrimage diary (1595)
• p. 23

• An Armenian Pilgrimage to Rome (1611)
• p. 25

• Europe's Diversity: England (1620)
• p. 27

• Iceland (1638)
• p. 33

• Escape from the Infidels (1724)
• p. 42

• A Defence of Pilgrimage (1724)
• p. 48

• A Venetian Greek in the Ottoman Balkans, (1742)
• p. 49

• Sinful Sufferings (1749)
• p. 54

• Faking Exile on a Greek Island (1764)
• p. 57

• A Franciscan's Journey from Lithuania to Spain (1768)
• p. 59

• An Astronomical Voyage through the Apennines (1770)
• p. 63

• Exile to Siberia (1790)
• p. 65

• II
• Voyages of Discovery (Late 18th to Mid-19h Century)
• p. 69

• On Travel Writing
• p. 72

• The Inquiries of Patriotic Travellers (1789)
• p. 73

• Reasons for Travel Writing (1821)
• p. 76

• Miraculous and Absurd Accounts of the Sclavonians (1823)
• p. 77

• Writing as a Woman (1842)
• p. 79

• Up off your cushions! (1844)
• p. 80

• On (Domestic) Travel (1846)
• p. 82

• Discoveries in Europe
• p. 84

• Greeks: From the Frankish Lands to Europe
• p. 85

• Amsterdam Chronicle (1760s-70s)
• p. 85

• Letters from Amsterdam (1770s)
• p. 88

• Letter from Paris to Smyrna (1788)
• p. 90

• Two Serbian Travellers in East and West
• p. 92

• Educational Pilgrimages (1788)
• p. 92

• A Representative of Orthodox Dalmatia (1823)
• p. 97

• From Moldavia and Wallachia
• p. 100

• Learning from Enlightened Europe (1826)
• p. 101

• Geography or Class? (1820s)
• p. 107

• Hungarian Reformers Before 1848
• p. 109

• Three Things to be Learned in England (1815)
• p. 109

• Questions about Hungary (1830-31)
• p. 113

• 'Images of Hungary and the Hungarians' (1840)

• From Poland: Before and After Partition
• p. 118

• English Education (1775)
• p. 119

• The Further We Go, the Worse Things Get (1784-85)
• p. 123

• London and Messina (1839)
• p. 126

• Industrial civilization (1841)
• p. 127

• Domopis: Travels through the Homeland
• p. 129

• 'Fragment from a Journey in Upper Moldavia in 1839' (1839)
• p. 130

• Our Travellers vs. Foreign Ones (1839)
• p. 131

• Travelling at Home, German-style (1845)
• p. 133

• A Nationalist Pilgrimage (1846)
• p. 135

• On the Run in Bohemia (1849)
• p. 137

• Frontier Ambivalence (1857)
• p. 143

• Domopis: Slav Travels
• p. 145

• Travels in Search of Slavic Antiquities (1795)
• p. 146

• Daughters of Slava (1843)
• p. 148

• Travel Trifles (1845)
• p. 151

• Railways and Slavs (1846)
• p. 155

• Equal to the Russians (1903)
• p. 157

• The Idea and Practice of a Slavonic Travelogue (1907)
• p. 158

• Sokol Excursion (1911)
• p. 161

• The sea! The sea! (1923)
• p. 163

• Variations: Three Women
• p. 165

• My Sphere of Activity is too Narrow... (1839-1840)
• p. 166

• Travels in Italy and Switzerland (1842)
• p. 170

• The Women of Greece (1863)
• p. 174

• III
• On the Tourist Track (1850s-1930s)
• p. 179

• Tourist and Travel Writer
• p. 182

• The Hungarian Tourist (1855)
• p. 183

• The Greek Tourist (1861)
• p. 184

• Real Magyars: The Complacent Tourist (1863)
• p. 185

• The Transylvanian Pilgrim: The Patriotic Tourist (1865)
• p. 188

• Recollections from Italy: The Anti-Tourist (1890)
• p. 193

• Letter from Berlin: The Ironic Tourist (1905)
• p. 196

• The European Metropolis: Paris and the Rest
• p. 200

• American Cities and London (1894)
• p. 201

• Letter to Paris (1904)
• p. 204

• If you've seen one big city (1906)
• p. 206

• Paris for Women (1909)
• p. 207

• 'Letters from Paris: Rue de Lappe' (1930)
• p. 209

• What a European City Used to Be (1939)
• p. 213

• No other European City is as Dirty (1939)
• p. 215

• Back Home in Belgrade, After Paris (1940)
• p. 215

• Exoticism and the Self
• p. 218

• Comparative Orientalisms: Spain and Romania (1846)
• p. 219

• Letters from Italy (1869)
• p. 220

• A Czech Slavist in Serbia (1875)
• p. 224

• Outlandish Uniforms (1898)
• p. 227

• Sketches from Brussels (1906)
• p. 228

• Austrian-or Worse (1913)
• p. 231

• Stamboul for Romanians (1931)
• p. 233

• 'The Barbarian Assault on Paris' (1932)
• p. 234

• Domopis: Know Your Couotry
• p. 237

• Plovdiv (1868)
• p. 237

• Expedition to Investigate Exotic Fellow Hungarians (1870)
• p. 239

• No Place Like Home (1875-78)
• p. 242

• Come to Greece (1885)
• p. 248

• The Delights of Home (1925)
• p. 250

• Darkest Hungary (1932)
• p. 251

• 'Journey to the Morea' (1937)
• p. 254

• Why Keep Writing About Travel?
• p. 256

• Across the Hatefully Clichéd Alps; Why Write about Venice? (1907)
• p. 257

• 'Holidays, 1908' (1908)
• p. 260

• 'Bittersweet Introduction' (1927)
• p. 261

• 'Our Newest Travel Writers' (1930)
• p. 263

• 'What We Learn Travelling' (1933)
• p. 265

• Variations
• p. 268

• Travel Notes: Spain, Milan and Paris (1913)
• p. 268

• Albania and Switzerland (1914)
• p. 271

• An Excursion to Russia (1926)
• p. 273

• Letters from Norway (1914, 1951)
• p. 280

• IV
• Europe Divided (1945-1989)
• p. 287

• The Tasks of Travel Writing
• p. 291

• Travel Writing, Then and Now (1962)
• p. 292

• 'To Be or Not to Be a Tourist' (1973)
• p. 294

• The View from a Periphery (1986)
• p. 296

• Domopis: Fraternal Travels
• p. 299

• A Pole in Bulgaria (1961)
• p. 299

• 'Meridians of Central Europe' (1963)
• p. 302

• Through Europe (1973)
• p. 309

• Cossacks and Collective Farms (1980)
• p. 314

• Carpathian Games (1981; 2006)
• p. 322

• Cold War Variations
• p. 326

• Waiting for a Visa (1947)
• p. 326

• Variations à la France (1947)
• p. 330

• Exile Journal (1950)
• p. 331

• 'The Expatriate Caryatid' (1951)
• p. 334

• 'My Holiday in England' (1957)
• p. 338

• The Barbarian in the Garden (1962)
• p. 341

• Vesuvius and Naples: Disillusion (1976)
• p. 344

• 'Austro-Hungarian Travel Brochure' (1987)
• p. 347

• V A Single Europe? (Since 1989)
• p. 355

• 'A Pity We Didn't Burn to Death Instead' (1990)
• p. 358

• 'Travemünde, Baltic Sea' (1998)
• p. 364

• Bus People (1999)
• p. 366

• The East European Scholar (2001)
• p. 369

• Travelling to Babadag (2004)
• p. 370

• Notes on Further Reading
• p. 377

• Copyright Acknowledgements
• p. 383

• Index
• p. 387