18th-century British Travellers to the Orient

Visualizing the routes of Lady Mary Montagu and the Earl of Sandwich

Cornelius Beckers, Research Assistant, Chair of Postcolonial Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen

Introductory Remarks

These maps were created to visualize the routes of selected British travellers to the Orient in the 18th century as a part of the research project "Unveiling Orientalism: Gender and Ambiguity in c18 British Discourse on Travel" carried out at the University of Duisburg-Essen. The research project is a sub-project of the interdisciplinary research group "Ambiguity and Distinction: Historical and Cultural Dynamics" (FOR 2600). More information on the project as well as the research group can be found  here .

Please note that this scrollytelling website is a work in progress. Further maps and texts will be added in the future.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792)

John Montagu's travels around the Mediterranean in 1738 and 1739 (published posthumously as Voyage Round the Mediterranean in the Years in 1799)

Works Cited

Below are the primary works that form the basis for the maps presented above.

Map on Mary Montagu's Route

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Turkish Embassy Letters. Introd. Anita Desai. Ed. Malcolm Jack. London: Virago 1993. 

Map on John Montagu's Route

Voyage Round the Mediterranean in the Years 1738 and 1739. London: Cadell & Davies 1799.