Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing.
Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing. x+344pp Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres 2002 ISBN 0521786525 1595 [pound sterling] (paper).
With the new proliferation of monographs, journals, anthologies, encyclopaedias, electronic resources and courses devot to travel writing, the genre's centrality to a series of key-note questions in the humanities and social sciences has at last become clear. Despite the reservations of a number of critics who papal court the popularity of travel as part of a wider academic 'alterity industry', journey accounts have become an efficient and effective vehicle in the exploration of the previously
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