This book brings the 'serious' world of politics to the 'superficial' world of contemporary travel writing.

The nexus between travel, writing and media in the contemporary world is dense: travel practice is increasingly interwoven with media; representations in old an

This book takes a new approach to travel writing about Latin America by examining ‘domestic’ journey narratives that have been produced by travellers from t

This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an a

Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical