Steamboats and pleasure travels: success and failure of the first Spanish initiatives in the mid-nineteenth century

Steam technology revolutionised maritime transport during the nineteenth century. Together with the establishment of the first regular lines, steamers soon led to the commencement of pleasure navigation. The aim of this article is to analyse the impact and scope of this process in Spain, by means of a study of the first experiences in the mid-nineteenth century. In addition to a brief introduction and final conclusions, the paper is structured around four sections. The first contains an appraisal of the situation of passenger transport. Some information is then provided regarding the first cruise in 1854. Next, the essay highlights some of the features of short excursions that were very well received by the public, especially in the island of Majorca. Finally, attention is given to a very special type of travel, the main attraction of which lay in the opportunity to witness an event of a military nature.

An eastern voyage. A journal of the travels of Count Fritz Hochberg through the British empire in the East and Japan.

Mode of access: Internet.

Picturesque United States of America, 1811, 1812, 1813, being a memoir on Paul Svinin, Russian diplomatic officer, artist, and author, containing copious excerpts from his account of his travels in America, with fifty-two reproductions of water colors in his own sketch-book,

"A list of the editions of Svinin's pamphlet on General Moreau": p.45-46.

Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes /

IUB01410: From the library of Sinclair Lewis; inscribed: "Sinclair Lewis, N.H. Apr. '08" on front fly-leaf recto.

Records of travels in Turkey, Greece, etc. : and of a cruise in the Black Sea with the Capitan Pacha /

Includes bibliographical references.

Armenia, travels and studies,

Mode of access: Internet.

Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817 /

"Printed by A. Strahan ... London" -- Colophon

Travels through the interior parts of America : in a series of letters /

Dedication signed: Thomas Anburey.

The purple land that England lost. Travels and adventures in the Banda Oriental, South America.

W.H. Hudson, a bibliography by John R. Payne,

The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, marines['] with an account of his travels round three parts of the globe.

Contains pts. 1-2.

Travels in Peru and Mexico,

Disbound Original Held in Oak Street Library Facility.

A journey due south: travels in search of sunshine.

Mode of access: Internet.

Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820.

Mode of access: Internet.

The origin and history of missions; a record of the voyages, travels, labors, and successes of the various missionaries, who have been sent forth by Protestant societies and churches; compiled from authentic documents.

First published, London, 1824-25, by Thomas Smith.

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer isles together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar /

Index prepared by Madame Marie Michon.