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Examining the aesthetics and politics at stake in urban travel writing as spatial practice, this book explores French travellers' representations of London and New York from 1851 to the 1980s.

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An enthralling account of the conflicting experiences of discovering the New World, drawing upon the intriguing tales of early discovery and amazing illustrations of the day.

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The book examines the relationship between the Enlightenment idea of improvement and eighteenth-century travel writings about Middle Eastern overland routes to India.

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Reconnaissance au Maroc is Charles de Foucauld's adventurous memoir of exploring Morocco. For eleven months in 1883-84, Foucauld travelled incognito through a country then off-limits to Europeans, mapping its waterways.

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This book studies design in airline travel posters of the 1920-1970 period. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive images/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colour, the images constituting part of the overall argument.

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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies draws on the concept of the keyword as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, in order to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form with cross-disciplinary implications.

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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies draws on the concept of the keyword as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, in order to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form with cross-disciplinary implications.

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May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the travel writings by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Her critical commentary on social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century, such as gender and class discrimination, still resonate today.

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May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the travel writings by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Her critical commentary on social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century, such as gender and class discrimination, still resonate today.

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Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretschs witty and perceptive prose captures an outsiders view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.

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Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretschs witty and perceptive prose captures an outsiders view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.

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This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (1788-1849) and offers the first detailed analysis of her four travel books.

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This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (17881849) and offers the first detailed analysis of her four travel books.

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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic authority, each contributor writes, from memory during the covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, accompanied by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place.

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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic authority, each contributor writes, from memory during the covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, accompanied by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place.

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This study examines how convicts sent to France's most notorious penal colony in French Guiana would use the colonial postal system to document and challenge lived experiences of transportation and forced labour.

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