Below is a list of selected primary source materials from the ZSR Special Collections. The list includes both published and manuscript sources documenting European travel and exploration in Africa and Asia in the early 19th through mid-20th centuries. Additional sources on this topic are available in Special Collections.

Books

• Travels in India, during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783. Hodges, William, 1744-1797. Call Number: G161 .P38 1793. Publication Date: London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Edwards, 1793.
• Travels in the interior districts of Africa. Park, Mungo, 1771-1806. Call Number: DT356 .P3 1799. Publication Date: London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author, 1799.
• Notes relative to the late transactions in the Marhatta Empire. Fort William, December 15, 1803. Wellesley, Richard Colley, Marquess, 1760-1842. Call Number: DS475.3 .W45 1804. Publication Date: London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1804.
• Sketches of India: written by an officer for fire-side travellers at-home. Sherer, Joseph Moyle, 1789-1869. Call Number: DS412 .S57 1826. Publication Date: London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826.
• Landscape illustrations of the Bible, consisting of views of the most remarkable places mentioned in the Old and New Testaments. Horne, Thomas Hartwell, 1780-1862. Call Number: DS44.5 .H7. Publication Date: London: John Murray, 1836.
• Memoirs of Father Ripa during thirteen years’ residence at the court of Peking in the service of the emperor of China. Ripa, Matteo, d. 1745; selected and translated from the Italian, by Fortunato Prandi. Call Number: DS708 .R58 1844. Publication Date: London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1844. Vol. VIII of Murray’s Colonial and Home Library series.
• Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land. Olin, Stephen, 1797-1851. Call Number: DS48 .O46 1844. Publication Date: New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1844.
• Nile notes of a Howadji. Curtis, George William, 1824-1892. Call Number: DT54 .C97 1854. Publication Date: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854.
• The lands of the Saracen ; or, pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain. Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878. Call Number: DS48 .T23. Publication Date: New-York: G.P. Putnam & co., 1856.
• A lady’s diary of the siege of Lucknow. Written for the perusal of friends at home. Harris, G. (“Mrs. James P. Harris.” ). Call Number: DS478 .H278 1858. Publication Date: New York: Henry Lyon, 1858.
• My diary in India, in the year 1858-9. Russell, Sir William Howard, 1820-1907. Call Number: CL Smith P-1-8-9. Publication Date: London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860.
• Twelve years in China: the people, the rebels, and the mandarins. By a British resident. Scarth, John. Call Number: DS709 .S28 1860. Publication Date: Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co. ; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1860.
• The foreigner in China. Wheeler, Lucius N. Call Number: DS709 .W56. Publication Date: Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1881.
• Ismailia: a narrative of the expedition to Central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade. Baker, Sir Samuel White, 1821-1893. Call Number: DT361 .B17 1875. Publication Date: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875.
• Through the heart of Asia: over the Pamir to India. Bonvalot, Gabriel, 1853-1933. Call Number: DS8 .B6. Publication Date: London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1889.
• Brown’s “South Africa”: |b a practical and complete guide for the use of tourists, sportsmen, invalids, and settlers. Brown, A. Samler. Call Number: DT752 .Y42 B7 1893. Publication Date: London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. ; Cape Town ; Johannesburg: J.C. Juta Co., 1893.
• Rambles through Japan without a guide. Leffingwell, Albert, 1845-1916. Call Number: DS809 .L49 1894. Publication Date: New York: Baker and Taylor ; London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1894.
• Impressions of South Africa. Bryce, James, 1838-1922. Call Number: CL Smith P-27-1. Publication Date: London: Macmillan and Co., 1899.
• The travel in Egypt and scenes of Jerusalem. Jones, W. L. Call Number: DT55 .J66 1909. Publication Date: Atlanta, Ga.: Converse & Wing Publishing Co., 1908. Author is an African American Baptist minister from Atlanta.
• Palestine and Syria, with routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and the island of Cyprus: handbook for travellers. Baedeker, Karl, (firm). Call Number: DS103 .B13 1912. Publication Date: Leipzig: K. Baedeker, [etc.] ; New York, Scribner, 1912.
• The Nile: notes for travellers in Egypt and in the Egyptian Sudan. Budge, Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis, 1857-1934. Call Number: DT45 .B9 1912. Publication Date: London: Thos. Cook & Son (Egypt) Ltd., 1912.
• Fountains in the sand: rambles among the oases of Tunisia. Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952. Call Number: DT250 .D6 1912. Publication Date: London: Martin Secker, [1912].
• Egypt and the Sudan: handbook for travellers. Baedeker, Karl, (firm). Call Number: DT45 .B16 1914. Publication Date: Leipzig,: K. Baedeker ; New York: C. Scribner’s sons, 1914.
• Terry’s Japanese empire, including Korea and Formosa, with chapters on Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian railway, and the chief ocean routes to Japan: a guidebook for travelers. Terry, T. Philip (Thomas Philip), 1864-1945. Call Number: DS805 .T45 1914. Publication Date: Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin ; London: Constable & Co. ; Tokyo: Kyo-Bun-Kwan, Ginza, Schich.
• The Guide to South and East Africa, for the use of tourists, sportsmen, invalids and settlers. Call Number: DT752 .Y42 G8 1914. Publication Date: London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1914.
• The Secret of the East: observations and interpretations. Huckel, Oliver. Call Number: CL Smith P-30-14. Publication Date: New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1924.
• Tourist in Africa. Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966. Call Number: DT365.2 .W38 1960. Publication Date: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, c1960.

Manuscripts

• A Visit to Mahatma Gandhi: Letter from Charles Lee Smith to his children, describing his 1924 visit with Gandhi during a trip to India. CL Smith Collection N-14-14C
• Clarence Herbert New travel materials: Annotated travel scrapbooks, photo albums, and maps from New’s voyages around the world. Most materials date from ca. 1880-1900. Clarence Herbert New and Robert Warrington New Papers, MS577