Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Essays & Travelogues

This collection includes the first critical editions of both Anne Grant s "Letters from the Mountains "(1806), one of the Romantic era s most successful non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands, and Elizabeth Isabella Spence s "Letters from the North Highlands "(1816), a work that, while influenced by Grant s "Letters," attempted to move the genre of the Scottish travelogue in new directions. Read together, these volumes offer complementary views of Scottish Highland life at a time of major historical transition: Grant was offering outsiders her perspective as a long-time resident...

Indian Travel Writing is a new five-volume collection co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse. Hitherto, the paucity of readily available travel writing produced by imperial subjects themselves has long been apparent, and this anthology addresses that lack. A veritable treasure-trove, it brings together scarce documents which are currently widely dispersed or very difficult for scholars, researchers, and students across the globe to locate and use.

The collection confirms the deeply cosmopolitan sensibility possessed by many Indian travellers, and their...

The Romantic Period saw a massive advance in British colonial expansion, which was accompanied by a corresponding expansion in travel writings. These published letters, journals and books provided British readers with detailed accounts of new and exotic locations and thus engaged the reading public with expansionist enterprises.

Covering the period of the French Revolution up until Victoria s ascendancy to the throne, and featuring journeys spanning France and central Europe, India, and South America, this collection brings together some of the most interesting travel accounts...