The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing offers a broad, specially commissioned introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. Fives essays survey the period's travel writing; six more focus on areas of particular interest--Arabia, the Amazon, Ireland, Calcutta, the Congo and California; while the final three analyse some of the theoretical and cultural dimensions to this most enigmatic and influential genre of writing. An extensive durther reading list is provided, plus a detailed chronology.