‘Every Hill has Its History, Every Region Its Romance’: Travellers’ Constructions of Wales, 1844–1913
‘Every Hill has Its History, Every Region Its Romance’: Travellers’ Constructions of Wales, 1844–1913
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“每一座山都有它的历史，每一个地区都有它的浪漫”：威尔士旅行者的建筑，1844-1913 年
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10.1057/9780230355064_10
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2012
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K. Gramich
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最早的作品之一，我们今天可以归类为家庭旅游的旅行文学品种是写威尔士的诺曼威尔士作家，杰拉尔德的威尔士，或Gerallt Gymro，因为他在威尔士被称为。不可否认，杰拉特在1188年的旅行有一个今天被认为是险恶的不可告人的动机，因为他陪同鲍德温大主教执行一项使命，招募志愿者参加十字军东征。尽管如此，Gerallt在他的旅行中用拉丁文发表了独特但往往非常敏锐的评论，他特别称之为“这是我的祖国......描述了其居民的天才，与其他国家完全不同。他可能被视为一长串观察力敏锐的步行旅行者中最早的一位，他们好奇地观察威尔士的景观和定居点，以及威尔士居民的历史和特征。沿着。像大多数旅行者一样，他绝不是一个公正的观察者，他认为自己的出生地，彭布罗克郡的Manorbier，是“威尔士最甜蜜的地方”，但也产生了一些尖锐的评论，其敏锐性仍然回荡，例如，（威尔士人）：“如果他们是不可分割的，他们将是不可逾越的”。2 Gerallt是一个见多识广、充满激情、杂交的土著旅行者，一个博学的盎格鲁-诺曼威尔士人，他的家乡旅游书籍可能是这种最狡猾和最不稳定的类型的原型。
One of the earliest works which we might today classify as travel literature of the home tour variety was written about Wales by a Norman-Welsh author, Gerald of Wales, or Gerallt Gymro, as he is known in Welsh. Admittedly, Gerallt’s travels in 1188 had what would nowadays be regarded as a sinister ulterior motive, in that he was accompanying Archbishop Baldwin on a mission to acquire volunteers to embark on a Crusade. Nevertheless, Gerallt produced during his travels idiosyncratic yet often highly perceptive commentaries in Latin on what he specifically calls ‘this my native country … describ[ing] the genius of its inhabitants, so entirely distinct from that of other nations’.1 Gerald, in his Itinerarium Kambriae (1191) and Descriptio Kambriae (1193), may be seen as one of the earliest in a long line of observant pedestrian travellers curiously examining the landscape and settlements of Wales, along with the history and traits of its inhabitants. Like most travellers, he is by no means an unbiased observer, identifying his own birthplace, Manorbier in Pembrokeshire, as ‘the sweetest spot in Wales’, but also producing some trenchant comments whose astuteness still reverberates, such as (of the Welsh): ‘If they would be inseparable, they would be insuperable’.2 Gerallt is an informed, impassioned, hybridized native traveller, an erudite Anglo-Norman Welshman whose home tour travel books might stand as archetypes of this most slippery and unstable of genres.