THE CAMBRIDGE

COMPANION TO

TRAVEL WRITING

EDITED BY

PETER HULMEUniversity of Essex

AND

TIM YOUNGSThe Nottingham Trent University

CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITY PRESS

CONTENTS

List of illustrations page viiNotes on contributors viii

Introduction i y

PETER HULME AND TIM YOUNGS

PART I: SURVEYS

1 Stirrings and searchings (1500-1720) 17WILLIAM H. SHERMAN

2 The Grand Tour and after (1660-1840) 37 ,kJAMES BUZARD

3 Exploration and travel outside Europe (1720-1914) 53 y(^ ROY BRIDGES

4 Modernism and travel (1880-1940) 70HELEN CARR

5 Travelling to write (1940-2000) 87

PETER HULME

PART II : SITES

6 The Middle East / Arabia: 'the cradle of Islam' 105 /~~BILLIE MELMAN

7 South America / Amazonia: the forest of marvels 1227 NEIL L. WHITEHEAD

Contents

8 The Pacific / Tahiti: queen of the South Sea isles 139ROD EDMOND

9 Africa / The Congo: the politics of darkness 156TIM YOUNGS

10 The Isles / Ireland: the wilder shore 174GLENN HOOPER

11 India / Calcutta: city of palaces and dreadful night 191KATE TELTSCHER

12 The West / California: site of the future 207

BRUCE GREENFIELD

PART III: TOPICS

13 Travel writing and gender 225SUSAN BASSNETT

V 14 Travel writing and ethnography 2.42JOAN PAU RUBIES

, 15 Travel writing and its theory 261' ' MARY BAINE CAMPBELL

Chronology 279Further reading 306Index 319