TRAVEL WRITING Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies Edited by Tim Youngs and Charles Forsdick CONTENTS VOLUME I: THE PRODUCTION OF TRAVEL WRITING Editors' acknowledgements xiii Acknowledgements xv Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters xvii Introduction 1 TIM YOUNGS AND CHARLES FORSDICK PART 1 Writing travel 25 1 The journey and the book 27 JONATHAN RABAN 2 My philosophy of travel 33 ELLA MAILLART 3 Interview with Robyn Davidson 43 TIM YOUNGS 4 Travel writing today: its rise and its dilemma 57 COLIN THUBRON PART 2 Editing and publishing travel 71 5 Hakluyt's instructions: The Principal Navigations and sixteenth-century travel advice 73 DANIEL CAREY V CONTENTS 6 Tractable texts: modern editing and the Columbian writings DAVID HENIGE 7 Some problems of editing Cook's journals J. C. BEAGLEHOLE 8 Editorial procedures for The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition GARY E. MOULTON 9 A portable world: the notebooks of European travellers (eighteenth to nineteenth centuries) MARIE-NOELLE BOURGUET 10 Travels into print: authoring, editing and narratives of travel and exploration, C.1815-C.1857 CHARLES W. J. WITHERS AND INNES M. KEIGHREN 11 Vile bodies, vile places: traveling with Granta CHARLES SUGNET 12 Extract from 'Introduction' to Amazonian: The Penguin Book of Women's New Travel Writing DEA BIRKETT AND SARA WHEELER PART 3 Travel and translation 13 Bringing the world to England: the politics of translation in the age of Hakluyt WILLIAM H. SHERMAN 14 Different journeys along the river: Claudio Magris's Danubio and its translation LOREDANA POLEZZI 15 Travelling minorities: language, translation and the global MICHAEL CRONIN 16 Traveling theorists and translating practices ROXANNE L. EUBEN CONTENTS VOLUME II THE CONTEXTS OF TRAVEL Acknowledgements ix PART 4 Sites and zones \ 1 17 Patagonian cases: travel writing, fiction, history 3 PETER HULME 18 Spectacular Andean adventures 16 CLAIRE LINDSAY 19 Introduction to Place Matters 40 SUSAN MORGAN 20 Writing Calcutta: travelling with Levi-Strauss and Giinter Grass 65 JOHN HUTNYK 21 Americans in Vietnam: travel writing and the war 97 DAVID ESPEY 22 On being in the place of the cultural Other: Marc Boulet's travels in China and India 125 ALEX HUGHES 23 An imaginative geography 141 PETER BISHOP 24 The business of travel 169 LYDIA WEVERS 25 Intimate strangers: contemporary Australian travel writing and the semiotics of empathy 189 ROBERT CLARKE 26 Travel, representation, and difference, or how can one be a Parisian? 202 ELISABETH MUDIMBE-BOYI 27 'Walking in the footsteps of the illustrious dead': nineteenth-century travellers in southern Italy 218 SHARON OUDITT CONTENTS 28 Paradoxes of occidentalism: on travel literature and travel writing in Ceau§escu's Romania ALEX DRACE-FRANCIS 29 Antarctic travel writing and the problematics of the pristine: two Australian novelists' narratives of tourist voyages to Antarctica . ELIZABETH LEANE PART 5 Times and periods 30 Extract from 'Introduction' to Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel JAS ELSNER AND JOAN-PAU RUBIES 31 Herodotus the tourist JAMES REDFIELD 32 Spiritual quest and social space: texts of hard travel for God on earth and in the heart MARY BAINE CAMPBELL 33 Columbus and the cannibals ; PETER HULME 34 Travel narratives of the French to Brazil: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries MICHEL DE CERTEAU 35 Travel writing as a genre: facts, fictions and the invention of a scientific discourse in early modern Europe JOAN-PAU RUBIES 36 , Making something of it: questions of value in the early English travel collection MARY C. FULLER 37 Mental travelers: Joseph Banks, Mungo Park, and the Romantic imagination TIM FULFORD AND DEBBIE LEE 38 Mungo Park in West Africa; exploration and romanticism. Extract from The Suffering Traveller CARL THOMPSON CONTENTS 39 Introduction: practices and narratives of romantic travel [from Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing 1770-1840\ 445 NIGEL LEASK 40 Tourist and Traveller, extract from The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to 'Culture', 1800-1918 460 JAMES BUZARD 41 The travel atmosphere 476 PAUL FUSSELL 42 Postmodern itineraries 489 PATRICK HOLLAND AND GRAHAM HUGGAN VOLUME III MODES OF TRAVEL, TYPES OF TRAVELLER Acknowledgements vii PART 6 Modes of travel 1 43 A thousand miles of conventional sentiment: the literature of walking 3 REBECCA SOLNIT 44 Walking and talking: late-Romantic voices 16 ROBIN JARVIS 45 Passenger sketches and social identity 39 ANDREW HASSAM 46 Discovering England: the view from the train 66 JOHN LUCAS 47 Imaginative geographies and the invention of the aerial subject 85 DENICE TURNER 48 On the road: (auto)mobility and gendered detours 98 SIDONIE SMITH 49 "Trains, boats and planes": some reflections on travel writing and public transport 127 ALASDAIR PETTINGER CONTENTS 50 Around the world in a 2CV: post-war French travel writing and the reordering of 'elsewhere' 135 CHARLES FORSD1CK PART 7 Types of traveller 163 51 Jerusalem Pilgrims before the Crusades: a survey of the sources 165 JOHN WILKINSON 52 The pilgrim's progress across time: medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago 192 PAUL GENONI 53 Missionary writing in Polynesia 218 ANNA JOHNSTON 54 Gender, nature, empire: women naturalists in nineteenth- century British travel literature 251 JEANNE KAY GUELKE AND KAREN M. MORIN 55 Distance and disturbance: travel, exploration and knowledge in the nineteenth century 279 FELIX DRIVER 56 The soldier as tourist: the Australian experience of the Great War 296 RICHARD WHITE 57 'Replete with danger': the legacy of British travel narratives to news media coverage of Afghanistan 311 CORINNE FOWLER 58 The Scandinavian sporting tour 1830-1914 330 PIA SILLANPAA 59 Touring in extremis: travel and adventure in the Congo 345 STEPHEN DONOVAN 60 Consuming and erasing Portugal in the Lonely Planet guide to East Timor 362 DAVID CALLAHAN CONTENTS VOLUME IV APPROACHES TO TRAVEL Acknowledgements vii 61 Defining travel: on the travel book, travel writing and terminology 1 JAN BORM 62 Notes on travel and theory 15 JAMES CLIFFORD 63 I travel, therefore I am: the "nomad mind" and the spirit of travel 24 JEAN-DIDIER URBAIN 64 The politics of adventure: theories of travel, discourses of power 44 ALI BEHDAD 65 Constructing cultures: the politics of travellers' tales 60 SUSAN BASSNETT 66 Jungle books: (mis-)reading the jungle with Gide, Michaux and Leiris 81 DAVID SCOTT 67 Extract from Reading the Country: Introduction to Nomadology 111 KRIM BENTERRAK, STEPHEN MUECKE AND PADDY ROE 68 Modernity, mobility and ex-coloniality 118 MARY LOUISE PRATT 69 Extract from 'Introduction' to Writes of Passage: Reading Travel 134 JAMES DUNCAN AND DEREK GREGORY 70 New men, old Europe: being a man in Balkan travel writing 142 WENDY BRACEWELL 71 Feminist work on women's travel writing 165 SARA MILLS 72 Travel writing as domestic ritual 184 ELIZABETH HAGGLUND 73 Time, narration, and the exploration of Central Africa 190 JOHANNES FABIAN 74 The historical anthropology of text: the interpretation of Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana 209 NEIL L. WHITEHEAD XI CONTENTS 75 My musket, my missionary, and my mana 240 PAT HOHEPA 76 Fancy some cobra? Exploring Vietnamese cuisine in contemporary culinary travelogues 257 JOPI NYMAN 77 L'Africain du Grmnland: 'primitive' on 'primitives' 273 AEDIN NI LOINGSIGH 78 Voyaging the past, present, and future: historical re-enactments on HM Bark Endeavour and the voyaging canoe Hokule'a in the Sea of Islands 302 GREG DENING 79 Decolonizing geographies of travel: reading James/Jan Morris 320 RICHARD PHILLIPS 80 Pushing against the black/white limits of maps: African American writings of travel 344 TIM YOUNGS Index 362 Xll .