Travel Classics About the Reading
Literature Resource Center:
For a good selection of literary criticism about the texts, go to NYU Home > Research > Databases Title Index > L > Literature Resource Center, and then type in the name of the work.
Odyssey
Herotodus
- Herodotus - online editions
- Herodotus Inquiries - Translation with images
- Herodotus - Wikipedia
- Herodotus on the Web
- Herodotus and the Persian Wars
- Arms and the Man - What Was Herotodus Trying to Tell Us? The New Yorker
- Herodotus - 1911 Britannica article "
- Herodotus - Interactive Map
- Herodotus - Livius
- Herodotus on Egypt - Bartleby
Marco Polo
- The Travels of Marco Polo
- About.com: Marco Polo
- About.com: The Silk Road
- Resources for Marco Polo
- Traditional History: Marco Polo in China
- Mediaeval Travel Narratives in Tartary and Marco Polo
- John Larner - Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World
Ibn Battuta
- Journey to Mecca (video trailer)
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta: in the Near East, Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 (Dover)
- The Travels of Ibn Battutah edited by Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Review)
- Ibn Battuta - Wikipedia
- Biography of Ibn Battuta
- Ibn Battuta - Virtual tour
- Ibn Battuta- Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354 - excerpts
- The Longest Hajj- The Journeys of Ibn Battuta
- Ibn Battuta - Google timeline
- Travels with a Tangerine- Travels in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
- Girl Solo in Arabia
Columbus
- The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches
- Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia
- Christopher Columbus and the Indians - Howard Zinn
- Columbus Navigation
- Images of Christopher Columbus and His Voyages
- Podcasts and audio about Columbus
- The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery
- 1492- Conquest of Paradise (1992)
- Animated Hero Classics- Christopher Columbus (1991)
- "Debunking Columbus": review of Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest of Paradise
Cabeza de Vaca
- Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
- Castaway: The Narrative of Alvar Núñez Cageza de Vaca
- The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
- The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
- Cabeza de Vaca's La Relacion: Further Study: English Translations of La relacion
- The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion
- The Journey of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca - etext
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca - Wikipedia
- Cabeza de Vaca's Trail through today's United States
- Learning From Cabeza de Vaca
- Cabeza de Vaca - the movie
- Cabeza de Vaca [videorecording in Bobst]
- PBS resources for The Conquistadors
Montaigne
The Tempest
- The Tempest (Signet Classics)
- Richard Wilson - Voyage to Tunis: New History and the Old World of The Tempest
- Michael O'Toole - Shakespeare’s Natives: Ariel and Caliban in The Tempest
- Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time - Google Book
- 'He hourly humanizes' - Transformations and Appropriations of Shakespeare's Caliban
- Stritmatter and Kositsky - Shakespeare and the Voyagers Revisited
