Writes of Passage. Reading Travel Writing

This book presents a unique contribution from geographers -with their sensitivity to issues of place, space and landscape- to contemporary studies on travel writing, migration and other related areas across geography, literary criticism, cultural studies and history. - Limited visions of Africa:Geographies of savagery and civility ain early eighteenth-century narratives. - Enlightment travels:The making of epiphany in Tibet. - Scriping Egypt:Orientalism and the cultures of travel. - Dis-orirntation:On the shock of the familiar in a far-away place. -etc..