Travel In Spain Research Articles

Richard Ford and His 'Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain'

The centenary of the publication of Richard Ford's 'Hand-book for travellers i Spain' must not be allowed to pass without some account of the man and his book, rightly classed by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell as among the best books of travel, humour and history, social, literary, political and artistic, in the English language. x It is especially appropriate that Richard Ford's achievement should be remembered in the Geographical Journal as he was for some years a Fellow of the Society.2 After the end of the Napoleonic wars an annually increasing number of British tourists visited the continent, but very few adequate English guidebooks were then available to assist these travellers. It is true that an admirable

Maize: An Incident in George Borrow's Travels in Spain

Maize: An Incident in George Borrow's Travels in Spain

Travels in Spain and the East: 1808-1810

Travels in Spain and the East: 1808-1810

The travels in Spain of Thomas Williams

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeBSS Subject Index: SPAIN — CULTURE & CIVILIZATIONTRAVEL & TRAVEL LITERATURE — SPAINUNITED KINGDOM — CONTACTS & RELATIONS IN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE WITH SPAIN, PORTUGAL & LATIN AMERICAUNITED KINGDOM — HISTORICAL & CURRENT CONTACTS & RELATIONS WITH SPAIN & PORTUGALWILLIAMS, THOMAS (fl.1670–1680)

Travels in Spain

Travels in Spain

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BOTANISTS will learn with very great regret of the death of Mr. Edmond Boissier, the learned and indefatigable author of the “Flora Orientalis,” and many other important works on Systematic Botany. We have received no particulars, but we imagine his death must have been somewhat sudden, for the event was quite unexpected by his friends in this country. As recently as the month of August Prof. Oliver heard from him, the communication relating to the Supplements to the “Flora Orientalis,” on which the deceased botanist has been for some time engaged, and in which he wished to incorporate the botanical results of Dr. Aitchison's latest investigations in Afghanistan. Boissier's career as a botanist may be said to have commenced with his travels in Spain in 1837, when he collected the materials published in his “Voyage Botanique dans l'Espagne,” a richly illustrated work which appeared at intervals from 1839 to 1845. He subsequently travelled and botanically explored various parts of South-eastern Europe and Asia Minor. Independently of his larger works he published, separately, diagnoses of the exceedingly large number of undescribed species he found from within the limits of his “Flora Orientalis,” the first volume of which appeared in 1867, and the last in 1881. This work alone is sufficient to place the author in the first rank of a school of distinguished systematists, now alas fast disappearing without leaving a corresponding rising generation to take up the work where they have left it. Like the late Mr. Bentham, M. Boissier was in a position to give his undivided attention to the science he had chosen, and like him he laboured unceasingly; and it is to be hoped that the supplement to the “Flora Orientalis” is in a sufficiently forward state for publication. Among other things the vast genus Euphorbia furnished materials for several valuable works, including a monograph of all the species, and a folio volume containing figures of 120 species. Mr. Edmond Boissier was a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society, having been elected in 1860: and from his constant readiness to give others the benefit of his extensive knowledge, he enjoyed the esteem and admiration of a wide circle of botanists.

Sir Arthur de Capell Brooke's “travels in Spain and Orocco”

Journal Article Sir Arthur de Capell Brooke's “travels in Spain and Orocco” Get access Charles W. Sutton Charles W. Sutton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s5-VI, Issue 141, 9 September 1876, Page 219, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s5-VI.141.219a Published: 09 September 1876

Sir A. W. Capell Brook's “travels in Spain and Morocco” (1831)

Sir A. W. Capell Brook's “travels in Spain and Morocco” (1831) Get access D. Blair D. Blair 1Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s5-VI, Issue 134, 22 July 1876, Page 69, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s5-VI.134.69c Published: 22 July 1876

A Visit to the Lunatic Hospital at Granada

The Hospital de los Locos at Granada is the oldest lunatic asylum in Europe, having been founded by Ferdinand and Isabella shortly after the conquest in 1492. It was therefore opened some fifty years before the first Bethlehem Hospital, which stood in the present Bethlem Court, off Bishopsgate Street. It has apparently been carried on these two hundred and fifty years without any alteration in the original structure or any advance on the method of the original treatment. I induced to visit it last April, from a notice of it in Ford's Handbook. “At the corner of the Plaza del Triunfo (he writes) is the Hospital de los Locos, founded by Ferdinand and Isabella, and one of the earliest of all lunatic asylums. It is built in the transition style, from the Gothic to the Picturesque, having been finished by Charles V. The initials and badges of all parties are blended. Observe the patio and light lofty pillars. The filth and want of management of the interior is scandalous, and yet this is one of the lions which Granadians almost force an Englishman to visit; possibly from thinking all of us Locos, they imagine that the stranger will be quite at home among the inmates.” The asylum is a two storey square building, with enclosed courts, which form the patients' airing courts. They are of small extent, and excluded from all view by the buildings, which, however, shade from the sun. In one of the courts I noticed a large summer house, over which a vine was trained. The dormitories contained twenty-five beds each, and were large and well ventilated. Single rooms opened off them, with rather unpleasant arrangements (to English ideas) for night stools; but then all these arrangements in the best hotels in Spain are nasty to a degree, and at the railway stations, if possible, worse. What a boon the earth closet system would confer on travellers in Spain! The patients, about 250 in number, were on the whole quiet and orderly in their conduct, and fairly clothed and tolerably clean, when contrasted with the population at large. So quiet was the whole system that I did not hear one sound in all my visit, but then the Spanish people are a quiet, phlegmatic race, patient of suffering, and who stupify themselves with the constant and excessive use of tobacco. I saw one man in permanent restraint, with formidable leg locks and chains, but he could walk freely, and had the use of his arms. There was, I was told, no straight jacket in use at the time of my visit, but I was shewn a strong implement of the sort, with a lot of leather and straps about it, and which was said to be frequently required.