| Description |
xi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Anthem nineteenth century studies |
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Anthem nineteenth century studies.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction : filling the blank spaces / Tim Youngs -- 2. The Balkans in nineteenth-century British travel writing / Vesna Goldsworthy -- 3. Touring in extremis : travel and adventure in the Congo / Stephen Donovan -- 4. Politics, aesthetics and quest in British travel writing on the Middle East / Geoffrey Nash -- 5. Imperial player : Richard Burton in Sindh / Indira Ghose -- 6. Early Indian travel guides to Britain / Michael H. Fisher -- 7. A princess's pilgrimage : Nawab Sikandar Begam's account of Hajj / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley -- 8. A Yankee in Yucatan : John Lloyd Stephens and the lost cities of America / Nigel Leask -- 9. George Lewis and the American churches / Alasdair Pettinger -- 10. Strategies of travel : Charles Dickens and William Wells Brown / Tim Youngs -- 11. Missionary positions : romantic European Polynesias from Cook to Stevenson / Sarah Johnson -- 12. Writing the southern cross : religious travel writing in nineteenth-century Australasia / Anna Johnston -- 13. A young writer's journey into the New Zealand interior : Katherine Mansfield's The Urewera notebook / Anne Maxwell |
| Bibliography |
"Further reading": pages [237]-239 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Travel writing -- History -- 19th century.
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Travelers' writings -- History and criticism.
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Travel -- 19th century.
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Civilization, Modern -- 19th century.
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| Author |
Youngs, Tim.
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| ISBN |
9781843312185 hardback |
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1843312182 hardback |
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