Gertrude Bell. The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914. Edited by Rosemary O’Brien. Syracuse University Press. 0815606729
Janet Starkey and Okasha El Daly, eds. Desert Travellers: From Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence. University of Durham. 0953970000
Dauril Alden. Charles R. Boxer: An uncommon life: Soldier, historian, teacher, collector, traveller. Lisbon: Fundacao Oriente. 9727850235
– Boxer (1904-2000) was a polymath whose life could be made into a book. And a great romance at the heart of it as well with the American Emily Hahn. Emily Hahn herself would make a fine biography. A note to myself is to search for her writings in the New Yorker and her book China To Me.
Lafcadio Hearn. Two Years in the French West Indies. Oxford. 1902669177
Isabella Tree. Sliced Iguana: Travels in Unknown Mexico. Hamish Hamilton. 024114051X
– this title got quite a good review in TLS (2001-07-27).
Mary Ashley Townsend. Here and There in Mexico. Ed. Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Unviersity Press of Alabama.
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