{"id":356,"date":"2010-03-26T17:58:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T17:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/institutocervanteslondon.wordpress.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2010-03-26T17:58:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T17:58:35","slug":"travels-in-portugal-and-spain-by-h-f-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/2010\/03\/26\/travels-in-portugal-and-spain-by-h-f-link\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abTravels in Portugal… and Spain\u00bb by H. F. Link"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following his interest in botany, entomology and ornithology, Henry Frederick Link<\/strong> <\/span>visited Spain with the Count of Hoffmannfegg<\/span>, in 1798. The origin of this journey was initially to do a research focused in Portugal, as Link<\/span> <\/strong>himself underlines in the introduction of the book \u201cto collect materials for Fauna and Flora Lusitaniae\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, his exploration spread out to Spain and France and he went beyond his scientific purpose and decided to write a travel book about these three countries.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt the time we had no idea of publishing and account of our travels as such; our chief attention was directed to investigating the works of nature, especially the botanical riches of the country\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Nevertheless on his return, after reading numerous accounts of travels in Portugal,\u00a0Link<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0discovered so many inaccuracies that he decided to \u201cseize the pen to defend my friends the Portugueze\u201d and wrote Travels in Portugal and through France and Spain. With a dissertation on the literature of Portugal, and the Spanish and Portugueze Languages<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Written in 1801<\/strong> and translated from the German by John Hincley<\/span> the copy available in our library was published that year by Nichols and Son Printers<\/span>, in London. The information related to Spain is gathered in six chapters of the book (VII-XI), from Biscay to Extremadura, through Castile and Madrid.<\/p>\n

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USEFUL LINKS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

About the author:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johann_Heinrich_Friedrich_Link<\/a><\/p>\n

About the book:<\/p>\n

(pdf – page 18)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/dialnet.unirioja.es\/servlet\/fichero_articulo?codigo=2857118&orden=0<\/a><\/p>\n

Online book:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/books.google.es\/books?id=Y38EAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA296&lpg=RA2-PA296&dq=henry+frederic+link+travels+in+portugal+and+through+france&source=bl&ots=qnpL23fuGw&sig=UtI5pakQXOWwLEB6mDHR8_dLhB0&hl=es&ei=RxVPS9COEJaUjAfyw6GWCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=henry%20frederic%20link%20travels%20in%20portugal%20and%20through%20france&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n

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Following his interest in botany, entomology and ornithology, Henry Frederick Link visited Spain with the Count of Hoffmannfegg, in 1798. The origin of this journey was initially to do a research focused in Portugal, as Link himself underlines in the introduction of the book \u201cto collect materials for Fauna and Flora Lusitaniae\u201d. However, his exploration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,60,65,68],"tags":[129,134,170,180,200],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}