The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing is a broad, specially commissioned introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. Five essays survey the period's travel writing; six more focus on areas of particular interest--Arabia, the Amazon, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California, while the final three analyze some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions of this enigmatic, influential genre of writing. An extensive further reading list plus a detailed chronology are included.

Author: Peter Hulme
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/21/2002
Pages: 358
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780521786522

About the Author
Hulme, Peter: - Peter Hulme is Professor in Literature, University of Essex. He is the author of Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797 (1986) and Remnants of Conquests: The Island Caribs and their Visitors, 1877-1998 (2000).Youngs, Tim: - Tim Youngs is Reader in English and American Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Travelers in Africa: British Travelogues 1850-1900 (1994), and the editor of Writing and Race (1997).