... epistolary writing in which he assesses travel to New York as one of the most useful experiences of his life while also repeatedly noting the continuous linguistic negotiations surrounding him while in the city. Then, this part introduces Moreno Villa and the fruits of his transatlantic travel...

...This part focuses on the travel texts of Julio Camba and Josep Pla, writers from opposite sides of the Iberian Peninsula, who wrote the city for professional reasons. The works of Camba and Pla present curious cases regarding translation and the city given the fact that they both are from regions...

... yearned for foreign travel, solo. He treated the most respectable statesmen of England with contempt, and quarrelled with his father–in–law. Atslowe Dr Edward Ayloffe William Clopton alias Wotton John Cooke Mildred Lady Burghley Darcy John Baron Darcy of Chiche Darcy Sir Thomas Baron Darcy of Chiche...

...This chapter describes Oxford's return journey to England. It presents correspondence from Oxford as well as individuals he met while travelling abroad. Passing through Milan on his way home Oxford struck out for Paris via Lyon and the military encampments of one or another French faction. Oxford...

...Although Europeans were hostile to Muslims, they still embarked on dangerous sea voyages, risking their lives in exchange for the opportunity not only to make pilgrimage to the Christian holy places but also to increase the lucrative trade with the infidels. Travellers knew little about pharaonic...

...This chapter examines travel texts that reverse or challenge the Eurocentric conventions of the genre: In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh and The Atlantic Sound by Caryl Phillips. It explains that Ghosh's text situates Europe on a level playing field with Africa...

... of Saturn. It discusses the plot of these works and suggests that innovative travel narratives of Marlatt and Sebald are emblematic of a cultural shift in modes and media of textual production that illustrates the concern to push the boundaries of generic and textual responses to travel. Freud...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on innovative travel writing and globalization. It suggests that the travelogues analyzed in this study reveal the complexities of texts that interrogate the aesthetics of the travelling subject and self-narration in the context of increasingly...

...This introductory chapter briefly sets out the book's purpose – to explore the extent to which travel writing has had an impact on perceptions of the Americas and the way in which the United States is perceived by its own citizens and the citizens of other countries in mutually transformative ways...

...This chapter analyzes the writing of Louis de Hennepin from a different perspective, demonstrating in his discussion of the Niagara Falls that Niagara was central to French perceptions of North America, and acted over the centuries as an index of shifting conventions of travel writing...

...The second chapter shows how the railroad, mobile men, and gendered mobility figure into the poetry of Sterling A. Brown. As I argue, Brown’s poetry collectively mirrors how race, ethnic, and gender social relations influence travel for African Americans. For the men in Brown’s art, mobility...

...Demonstrating how the concerns of early writers publishing during Jim Crow finds continuity in the fiction published by post-segregation, post-civil rights writers, the fourth chapter considers travel as literary device in Octavia Butler’s speculative novel Kindred. Grounded...

...This introductory chapter suggests ways to begin to untie travel writing from its Western moorings and open up a space for African representations of travel. It looks briefly at some of the key literary and historical issues characterizing European colonial travel writing on Africa...

...This chapter examines Ousman Socé's Mirages de Paris, which establishes the fundamental link between travel and exile that informs the psychological drama of so many subsequent African accounts of journeys. What is especially unusual about Mirages de Paris...

... to examine the particular portrayal and significance of travel and mobility in Le petit prince de Belleville and Maman a un amant. The chapter presents an analysis of the texts' travel practices that sees them as linked to an intricate network of power relations which...

... Carlos Lima Nísia Trindade Martínez Pinzón Felipe Triana Miguel Uribe Uribe Rafael Exceptionality and the Quotidian The Green Hell as Home Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism Diplomacy and Travel Eldorado and a sexualized Amazon The Amazon, or Amazonia, as it is also known, is a region spanning...

... embedded in Causley's poetry of place are underscored by his life-long preoccupation with the defamiliarisation of home brought about by foreign travel. The result, then, is a body of poetic writing which is shaped by a creative life spent wrestling with the ambiguities of belonging. Causley Charles...

...The small, idiosyncratic, family-run Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince has long been favoured by literary travellers to Haiti. Alasdair Pettinger draws on a selection of English-language accounts from the last twenty years by authors who have described their stays there and argues that an imagined...

...This chapter explores the relationship between the physical characteristics of the mainstream magazines and the type of material they published. Using multi-levelled analysis, it considers the material dimensions of magazines in relation to middlebrow culture and travel. It presents a set of four...

...This chapter examines how the mainstream magazines frame travel as an opportunity for consumption, a chance to experience luxury as well as to accumulate social and cultural capital. It considers the kinds of consumption, both material and cultural, that were fundamental to travel, along...