Travel literature
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Account by John Farwell junior of his visit to the Osage Indians in Kansas in 1870.
With copies of associated papers and a covering letter.
Account of travels of W Fordyce Brown.
Concerns visits to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the East Indies, China and Japan.
Anonymous account of a tour in Scotland, with an associated letter.
Author`s copy of James Logan Mack, "The Border Line" (1st Edition, Edinburgh, 1924), printed on rag paper, containing letters and other items tipped or pasted in.
Copy of Martin Martin, "A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland" (1716), with annotations, 1720, of John Toland.
Corrected manuscript account of Robert Inglis of his ascent of Monte Rosa.
Corrected typescript drafts of Naomi Mitchison, "Mucking Around: Five Continents over Fifty Years" (1981).
Correspondence and papers concerning Richard M D Grange, "A Short History of the Scottish Dress" (1967).
With typescript and illustrations, 1970, for Grange`s unpublished, "What to see on Mull".
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
"Excursion from Friars Carse to Carleverock [sic] made by Robert Riddell of Glenriddell 1787".
George Bryson, "Spain, what I saw of it during a Holiday Tour", illustrated with photographs.
Letters and copies of letters to Hamish Brown.
Includes Don Johnson`s account of a journey from Land`s End to John O`Groats, 1994, text of a talk by Sir Alasdair T Munro on "Hugh Munro and his Tables", 1994, and Nigel Springett`s account of a visit to India, 1989.
Literary papers of Tom Pow.
Manuscript of Hamish M Brown, "Scotland: Coast to Coast".
With papers of the first ten years of the Ultimate Challenge, an annual walk across Scotland.
Manuscript of the first half (pp 1-108) of William E Baxter, "A Winter in India".
Manuscript revisions by Robert McLellan for "The Isle of Arran" (2nd edition, 1976).
"Notes of an excursion from York to Edinburgh... and return by a few of the Lakes in Cumberland and Westmorland".
The author of this anonymous manuscript is probably George Todd of York.
"Observations on Egypt, Syria and Greece made during a three years cruise in HMS Myrmidon", an account by George Sibbald, Assistant Surgeon, Royal Navy, Edinburgh.
Papers of Hamish Brown.
Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of "Hamish Brown`s Scotland" (1988), "Climbing the Corbetss" (1988) and "Speak to the Hills" (1985).
Papers of Hamish Brown.
Concerning "Hamish`s Mountain Walk" (1974) and "Rhum" (1972)