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"Apart from humans, animals play a pivotal role in travel literature. However, the way they are represented in texts can vary from living companions to metaphorical entities. Existing studies mainly focus on the representation of conventional or unconventional roles that are assigned to animals from around the Napoleonic age until now, roles that have been subject to change and that tell us a lot about human reflections on encounters with non-human creatures and the position of man in this rapidly changing world. In this edited volume, scholars from the Netherlands and abroad analyse the roles that animals play in Dutch travel literature from 1800 to the present. In this way, we aim to provide new insights into the relationships between man and animals, in textual expressions and real life, and to add the ‘Dutch case’ to the flourishing international field of travel writing studies."--

Animals in literature --- Travelers' writings, Dutch --- History --- History and criticism

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Travelers' writings, Dutch --- Dutch --- Travel. --- Dutch --- Travel. --- Travel --- History --- Greece --- Greece. --- Description and travel

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Door de eeuwen heen hebben reizende natuurhistorici zich grote inspanningen getroost om onze kennis van flora en fauna uit te breiden; hun reisverslagen vormen boeiende lectuur. Kolibries in de oren vertelt het verhaal van een aantal van deze reizigers, gelardeerd met overvloedige citaten uit de oorspronkelijke teksten. Zo ontmoeten we onder anderen Nikolaj Przjevalski, de man van het przewalskipaard, pater Armand David van het Pater-Davids-hert, en Theodore Roosevelt, voormalig president van de Verenigde Staten. De verslagen laten zien hoe de politieke omstandigheden vaak grote invloed hadden op het werk van deze reizigers. Soms wordt er ook gelogen in deze verhalen, en aan de hand van voorbeelden worden de af en toe moeilijk te bepalen grenzen verkend tussen waar en verzonnen.

Geography --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Dutch travelers' writing --- Nederlandse reisbeschrijvingen --- Nederlandse reisverhalen --- Reisbeschrijvingen [Nederlandse ] --- Reisverhalen [Nederlandse ] --- Récits de voyage néerlandais --- Travelers' writings [Dutch ]

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History of the Netherlands --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- anno 1700-1799 --- South Africa --- Travelers' writings, Dutch --- History and criticism. --- Description and travel. --- Explorateurs --- Ethnologie --- Le Cap (Afrique du Sud ; province) --- Afrique du Sud --- Descriptions et voyages --- 18e siècle

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This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of travelers whose work ranges across what is now Germany and Austria, the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium, the Dutch East Indies and Suriname, the contributors highlight the interrelations between the regional and the global and the role alterity plays in both spheres. They therefore offer a transnational and transcultural perspective on the ways in which the foreign was mediated to audiences back home. By combining a narrative perspective on travel writing with a socio-historically contextualized approach, essays emphasize the importance of textuality in travel literature as well as the self-positioning of such accounts in their individual historical and political environments. The first sustained analysis to focus specifically on these neighboring cultural and linguistic areas, this collection demonstrates how topographies of knowledge were forged across these regions by an astonishingly diverse range of travelling individuals from professional scholars and writers to art dealers, soldiers, (female) explorers, and scientific collectors. The contributors address cultural, aesthetic, political, and gendered aspects of travel writing, drawing productively on other disciplines and areas of scholarly research that encompass German Studies, Low Countries Studies, comparative literature, aesthetics, the history of science, literary geography, and the history of publishing.

Travelers' writings, German --- Travelers' writings, Dutch --- History and criticism. --- 839.3-9 --- 839.3-9 Nederlandse literatuur--?-9 --- Nederlandse literatuur--?-9 --- Non-fiction --- Thematology --- German literature --- Dutch literature --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Travel writing --- Travel --- Authorship --- E-books