Product Description: The writings of travellers in Africa during the Golden Age of Victorian exploration often tell us more about 19th-century Britain than about Africa. In this text, the author places these narratives in their historical and cultural context, and examines how racial images may be affected by social change and litarary form...read more

Product Description: The study of race has become increasingly important in many academic disciplines, feeding on the trend in cultural theory to move more towards considerations of perception and representation of other landscapes, peoples and societies, and from a questioning of colonial and post-colonial influences on literature in general...read more

Product Description: A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery...read more

Product Description: A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the history of travel writing from the sixteenth century to the present, looks at areas around the world historically conducive to writing, and examines travel writing in conjunction with gender, ethnography, and theory. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by international scholars that examines some of the various contexts of travel writing, as well as its generic characteristics...read more

Product Description: The past three decades have seen a remarkable growth of cross-disciplinary academic interest in travel writing. This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the best research from scholars around the world. The collection also features pieces by travel writers themselves discussing their work, including: Michael Cronin on travel and translation Robyn Davidson interviewed by Tim Youngs Peter Hulme on Columbus David Espey on Americans in Vietnam John Hutnyk on Calcutta Charles Forsdick on French travel writing Mary Louise Pratt on travel-writing scholarship Richard White on Australian travellers...read more

Product Description: Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant cultures and exotic locales, and sometimes those closer to hand...read more