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The Cambridge companion to travel writing / edited by Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs.

Hulme, Peter (Added Author). Youngs, Tim (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 052178140X
ISBN: 0521786525 (pbk.)
Physical Description: x, 343 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-318) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Stirrings and searchings (1500-1700) / William H. Sherman -- The grand tour and after (1660-1840) / James Buzard -- Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720-1914) / Roy Bridges -- Modernism and travel (1880-1940) / Helen Carr -- Traveling to write (1940-2000) / Peter Hulme -- The Middle East. Arabia: 'the cradle of Islam' / Billie Melman -- South America. Amazonia: the forest of marvels / Neil L. Whitehead -- The Pacific. Tahiti: queen of the South Sea isles / Rod Edmond -- Africa. The Congo: the politics of darkness / Tim Youngs -- The isles. Ireland: the wilder shore / Glenn Hooper -- India. Calcutta: city of palaces and dreadful night / Kate Teltscher -- The west. California: site of the future / Bruce Greenfield -- Travel writing and gender / Susan Bassnett -- Travel writing and ethnography / Joan Pau Rubiés -- Travel writing and its theory / Mary Baine Campbell.