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Taking Edward Said's "Orientalism" (1978) and its "Othering" as a departure point, this book attempts to investigate how Izmir and its cultural structure have presented in British travel writing during the nineteenth century. Hundreds of books and PhD dissertations which take Orientalism as a departure point have been written and a great number of courses have been thought at universities. How these criticisms have brought differences and similarities to the nineteenth century British travel writing on Izmir is the most important problematic of this study. In that context, Charles Fellows's A...

These twelve chapters show how war functions as a subject, theme, impetus-willing and not-and backdrop in travel writing. Literature about travel and war in tandem enables readers to rethink both categories. The forms of travel writing about war addressed in this collection, including cookbooks and military magazines along with nonfiction narrative and memoir, reveal how heterogenous travel writing can be. To study travel in connection with war expands readers' understanding of the multiple motivations instigating travellers' journeys. War is about more than fighting on a battlefield; its...