Notes on the Editors and Contributors

Introduction

Jas Elsner

Joan-Pau Rubies

1 From Mt Ventoux to Mt Masaya: The Rise and Fall of Subjectivity in Early Modern Travel Narrative

Jesus Carrillo

2 Futility in the New World: Narratives of Travel in Sixteenth-Century America

Joan-Pau Rubies

3 `Rubbing up against others': Montaigne on Pilgrimage

Wes Williams

4 The Philosopher as Traveller: Bernier's Orient

Peter Burke

5 Looking for Virgil's Tomb: The End of the Grand Tour and the Cosmopolitan Ideal in Europe

Melissa Calaresu

6 Precision and Curiosity in Scientific Travel: James Rennell and the Orientalist Geography of the New Imperial Age (1760-1830)

Michael T. Bravo

7 `The Ghost in Chapultepec': Fanny Calderon de la Barca, William Prescott and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Travel Accounts

Nigel Leask

8 Partners: Guides and Sherpas in the Alps and Himalayas, 1850s-1950s

Peter H. Hansen

9 The European Journey in Postwar American Fiction and Film

Kasia Boddy

10 Per ardua ad astra: Authorial Choice and the Narrative of Interstellar Travel

Edward James

References

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Acknowledgements

Photographic Acknowledgements

Index