This post was written for us by library intern Lisa Smoltino. Travel writing is quite the trend these days, with books and blogs gaining popularity more and more every day. People have been interested in this style of writing for decades, however, and a look...
by Katherine Quinn (IHR library trainee 2012-13) Though not the first travel guides ever written, the “Baedekers” contain several original quirks and features that must have influenced today’s Lonely Planet and Time Out writers. Starting off in the Travel Writing...
We came across this edition of Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de l’Amerique during the reclassification of the Colonial history collection. Jean Baptiste Labat (1663-1738) travelled to the West Indies in the 1690s as a missionary and worked as an engineer and...
