Hans Christian Andersen : Travelogues - 25 titles

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Hans Christian Andersen had a rich travel life and wrote many travelogues, which "are often celebrated for their journalistic flair, but which are in fact very poetical books, picturesque and lyrical in their style and way of describing reality." (Johan de Mylius: andersen.sdu.dk/liv/minibio/rejseboeger_e.html).

The survey contains texts of a very varying length. The large travel books are these five:

Besides these "genuine" travelogues, one should not ignore the debut book Fodreise (A journey on foot) – even though it is not about a real journey – nor the novel The Improvisatore from 1835, which may rightfully be conceived of as a travelogue concerned with Andersen's journey to Italy 1833-34.

No. TitleDateLanguage
701 Fragment af en Reise fra Roeskilde til Helsingør [Danish] 1 July 1826 Danish
702 Brudstykke af en Udflugt i Sommeren 1829. - Odense og dens Omegn [Danish] 17 September 1829 Danish
703 Skyggebilleder af en Reise til Harzen, det sachsiske Schweitz etc. etc., i Sommeren 1831 [Danish] 19 September 1831 Danish
704 Raphaels Begravelse [Danish] 4 January 1835 Danish
705 Thorvaldsen [Danish] 11 January 1835 Danish
706 En Spadseretour gjennem Posilip-Grotten ved Neapel [Danish] 18 January 1835 Danish
707 Italiensk Musik, Sang og Theatervæsen [Danish] 8 February 1835 Danish
708 Den fattige Dreng paa Frankerigs Throne [Danish] 10 January 1836 Danish
709 »Mohammeds Fødselsdag« og »Jernbanen« [Danish] 24 October 1841 Danish
710 Tre romerske Drenge [Danish] January 1842 Danish
711 En Digters Bazar [Danish] 30 April 1842 Danish
712 I Sverrig [Danish] 19 May 1851 Danish
713 Silkeborg [Danish] November 1853 Danish
714 Ragaz (Bad-Pfäffers) [Danish] December 1858 Danish
715 Skagen [Danish] December 1859 Danish
716 Et Besøg hos Charles Dickens i Sommeren 1857 [Danish] 2 February 1860 Danish
717 Liden Kirstens Grav [Danish] 22 April 1860 Danish
718 Passionskuespillet i Oberammergau i 1860 [Danish] 19 August 1860 Danish
719 Brudstykke af en Reise i Schweitz (Meddeelt til Billedet: Løven ved Luzern) [Danish] 17 March 1861 Danish
720 I Spanien [Danish] 9 November 1863 Danish
721 Et Besøg i Portugal 1866 [Danish] 19 November 1868 Danish
722 I Jurabjergene [Danish] January 1869 Danish
723 Nürnberg. En Reise-Erindring fra Foraaret 1872 [Danish] 18 August 1872 Danish
724 Et Blad, skrevet i Norge [Danish] 1949 Danish
725 Et Kapitel af en paatænkt historisk Sverigesroman [Danish] 1964 Danish
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