The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing

Travel is an amalgam of exploration, travel and tourism. It is history, geography, anthropology, literature, politics, and popular publishing. Unlike many “established” areas of culture and literature, it needs to be put into a coherent frame – one is not already there – and this companion does this job really well. It has both a scholarly and popular approach, and, in a handy chronology, fits a wealth of travel writing, from 1492 until 2001, into the main historical sequence of world events. Hulme is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex and author of Remnants of Conquest: The Island...