UNC Program in the Humanities and Human Values
Spirit of Adventure, 29 - 31 July 2004

RECOMMENDED WEB SITES - ROGER G. SWEARINGEN

Pre-Study Materials

• The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake ... 1589
• Tennyson - Ulysses ... 1833/1841
• Stevenson - Travel ... 1881/1885
• Stevenson - A Gossip on Romance ... 1882
• Stevenson - A Humble Remonstrance ... 1884
• Stevenson - Popular Authors ... 1888

Prehistory

• Cave of Lascaux, France - Prehistoric cave paintings, 17,000 years old.

Homer - The Odyssey

• Homer: The Odyssey - University of Wisconsin - The Classic Text: Traditions and Interpretations

The Middle Ages

• University of Nevada - Resources for the Study of Beowulf

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Manuscript Images, British Library

Age of Exploration

• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
- Library of Congress

• Vasco Da Gama: Round Africa to India, 1497-1498 - Internet Modern History Sourcebook, Paul Halsall, Fordham University

• Mapping Early Modern Worlds - Folger Shakespeare Library

• Picturing Natural History - J. Pierpont Morgan Library - Picturing Natural History: Flora and Fauna in Drawings, Manuscripts, and Printed Books, 12 February - 4 May 2003

• Exploring the Early Americas - The Jay I. Kislak Collection, United States Library of Congress, 2007.   » Catalogue

• Jacques LeMoyne, Florida, 1564 - Jacques LeMoyne paintings and drawings, North Florida/South Carolina (1564). Engraved and published by Theodor DeBry, 1591.

• Theodor DeBry's Grands Voyages; America - Kraus Collection, United States Library of Congress

• John Carter Brown Library - Archive of Early American Images

• Sir Francis Drake (c.1540 - 1596)
• Sir Francis Drake: A Pictorial Biography by Hans P. Kraus - United States Library of Congress

• Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
• National Park Service - Roanoke Revisited

• White-De Bry Map of Virginia (1590) - Detailed Key
• Thomas Hariot's "A Brief and True Report"
• Drake in North Carolina

• Virtual Jamestown
• John White Drawings
  Virtual Jamestown - John White drawings, 1577 / Theodor DeBry engravings, 1590.

• Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) - Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensis (1705)
• Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral: Natural History Books by Ten Authors - Johns Hopkins University, March - July 2000

• Mark Catesby (1679-1749) - Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, London, 1731-43 - Philadelphia Print Shop
• Mark Catesby (1679-1749) - Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, London, 1771 - Johns Hopkins University
• Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral: Natural History Books by Ten Authors - Johns Hopkins University, March - July 2000
• Original Watercolors - Travelling Exhibition from Windsor Castle, 1997

Dampier, Woodes Rogers, Alexander Selkirk, Robinson Crusoe, Pirates

• Woodes Rogers, Alexander Selkirk

• Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, Pirates - Larry Voyer Graphical Bibliographies

The South Seas

• Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey - PBS Series - Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

• Voyages: Scientific Circumnavigations 1679-1859 - Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology

• Cook and Omai: The Cult of the South Seas - National Library of Australia - Cook and Omai: The Cult of the South Seas

18th/19th Century Travel

• The Illustrating Traveler: Adventure and Illustration in North America and the Caribbean 1760-1895 - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 1996

The Nineteenth Century:
Advances in Printing, New Audiences

• Color Printing
• Nineteenth Century Lithography
  University of Delaware Library - Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century

• Color Lithography - History - University of Wisconsin
• Color Lithography - Circus Posters - University of Wisconsin

• The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings: 1815-1915 - Grolier Club, New York, 17 May - 29 July 2000

• Stamped With a National Character: Nineteenth-Century American Color Plate Books - Grolier Club, New York, 5 May - 31 July 1999

• Aspects of the Victorian Book - British Library. In each area, click on circle labeled Images for details.

• Photography - Timeline - U. S. News and World Report, 9 July 2001

• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls - Stanford University

• Beadle and Adams - A. Johannsen - The House of Beadle and Adams - Northern Illinois University Collection

• Street and Smith History
• Street and Smith Dime Novels
• Dime Novel Cover Art Gallery
  Syracuse University Library - Street and Smith Collections

• Roman d'aventures - Nineteenth-Century France

• The Literature of Travel, 1700 - 1900
• Bibliography
  F. A. Kirkpatrick, in A. W. Ward and W. P. Trent, eds., Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-21).

• Elias Burton Holmes Travelogues
• Burton Holmes and the Trans-Siberian Railroad (1901)

• 1893 Columbian Exposition, Chicago - Julie K. Rose, The World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath. © 1996. Master's Thesis, American Studies Program, University of Virginia.

• Early History of Motion Pictures
• Picture Catalogues by American Producers and Distributors, 1894 -1908
• Thomas A. Edison Papers - Rutgers University

• Sherlock Holmes - Lilly Library, University of Indiana - Bloomington by Gaslight - Sherlock Holmes in the Lilly Library

• The American West
• Buffalo, Railroads, Cowboys
• Theodore Roosevelt, Buffalo Bill

PBS Series - Ken Burns/Stephen Ives - New Perspectives on The West

• Medicine Shows - National Library of Medicine Here Today, Here Tomorrow - Medicine Shows
• Ephemera - National Library of Medicine

The Twentieth Century:
New Media, New Markets

• The Wizard of Oz (1900) - Library of Congress The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairy Tale

• Stephen Crane - University of Virginia
• Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
  Eric J. Gislason, Imaging America: The Red Badge of Courage and Visual Representations of The Civil War. © 1996. Master's Thesis, American Studies Program, University of Virginia

• Jack London - Utah State University Libraries Jack London Collection. Click on pictures for additional details and pictures.
• Jack London: Author and Adventurer - Huntington Library
• Jack London - Bancroft Library, University of California - Berkeley

• Perils of Pauline (1914) - History of Movie Serials: Perils of Pauline (1914) onward

• Serial Films
- Overview
• Movie Serials - Movie Serials - Animated - Flash Gordon, Zorro

• Lowell Thomas - Lowell Thomas Adventures, Broadcasting, Cinerama

• Lawrence of Arabia - T. E. Lawrence (PBS series)

• Richard Halliburton: The Horizon Chaser
• Richard Halliburton: Biography - Memphis Magazine, August 1977, rpt. April 2001.

• ClassicAdventureBooks.com
• ClassicAdventureBooks: Richard Halliburtion

• The Shadow, 1931-49 - Bill Laidlaw, The Shadow: Pulp Magazine & Radio Series (1931-49)

• Big Little Books - 1930s

• Classic Comics/Classics Illustrated - October 1941-

• Zorro - History
• Zorro - TV Series
• Zorro - Pictures
  Bill Cotter - History of Zorro, Disney's TV Series Zorro 1957-59

• Zorro - Fans and Collectors - History of Zorro

• Cinerama, 30 September 1952 - Greg Kimble, "This Is Cinerama," in 70mm.com: The 70mm Newsletter, 6 October 2002.
• David Strohmaier: Cinerama Adventure, 2003 - Review by Robert Keser, Bright Lights Film Journal, November 2003.

• James Bond Multimedia - UK web site
• James Bond - Lilly Library, University of Indiana - Ian Fleming Collection

• National Geographic Adventurer's Handbook
• National Geographic Adventure Magazine

• Down-and-Dirty Adventure Guide - Nevada Commission on Tourism

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