“Counting the Cats in Zanzibar”: American Travel Abroad in American Travel Writing to 1914
Year: 1988
Type: article
Abstract: In 1914 Josiah Royce began his address to a scientific gathering by comparing philosophy to “a sort of Cook's bureau.” “Its servants,” Royce continued, “are taught to speak various languages – all of them ill – and to know little of the inner life of the numerous foreign lands to which they guide their feet, or check the luggage of their fellow men.” Yet these agents have their use, Royce concluded, “if new comparative studies of ideas of various and widely sundered provinces of research are to be carried out at all,” and he bid his listeners to regard him, “if you wish to vary the name, as representing some bureau of university travel.”
Author: Terry Caesar
Institution: Clarion University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2083673676