The Cambridge history of travel writing / edited by Nandini Das (University of Liverpool), Tim Youngs (Nottingham Trent University).
| Other author/creator | Das, Nandini, 1974- editor. |
| Other author/creator | Youngs, Tim, 1961- editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
| Copyright Notice | ©2019 |
| Description | xviii, 639 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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| Portion of title | History of travel writing |
| Portion of title | Travel writing |
| Contents | Part I. Travel writing by period. Travel writing and the ancient world / Jonathan S. Burgess ; Medieval travel writing (I). Peregrinatio and religious travel writing / Mary Baine Campbell ; Medieval travel writing (2). Beyond the pilgrimage / Sharon Kinoshita ; Early modern travel writing (I). Print and early modern European travel writing / Gerald MacLean ; Early modern travel writing (2). English travel writing / Nandini Das ; Eighteenth-century travel writing / Nigel Leask ; Nineteenth-century travel writing / Carl Thompson ; Travel writing after 1900 / Tim Youngs -- Part II. Travel writing in a global context. Arabic travel writing / Daniel L. Newman ; Indian travel writing / Supriya Chaudhuri ; Chinese travel writing / Xiaofei Tian ; Travel writing from Eastern Europe / Alex Drace-Francis ; Italian travel writing / Nathalie C. Hester ; Hispanic travel writing / Claire Lindsay ; Travel writing in French / Charles Forsdick ; North American travel writing / Wendy Martin ; Australian travel writing / Anna Johnston ; African travel writing / Rebecca Jones -- Part III. Perspectives on travel writing. (I). Place and travel writing: Travel and the city / Victoria E. Thompson ; Travel writing and the desert / Roslynn Haynes ; Travel writing and rivers / Robert Burroughs ; Travel and mountains / Amrita Dhar ; Polar travel / Elizabeth Leane ; Travelling in wilderness / Debbie Lee -- (II). Forms. Advice on the art of travel / Daniel Carey ; Travelogues, diaries, letters / Zoë Kinsley ; Travel writing and cartography / Jordana Dym -- Travel and poetry / Christopher M. Keirstead ; Visual images in travel writing / Stephanie Leitch ; Travel and fiction / Janicke Stensvaag Kaasa ; Scientific travel / Michael F. Robinson ; Travel in the Digital Age / Paul Longley Arthur and Tom van Nuenen -- (III). Approaching travel writing. Gender and travel writing / Robert Aldrich ; Ecocriticism and travel / Kylie Crane ; Translation and travel writing / Susan Bassnett ; Travel writing and tourism / Agnieszka Sobocinska and Richard White. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-616) and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781107148185 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1107148189 (hbk.) |
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