Synopses & Reviews
Review
"For 25 years Percy Adams has labored to persuade scholars to embrace travel writing as a full member of the literary canon. In this book, the greatest fruit of that long effort, Adams brings his astonishing range of reading to a comparative history of themes, structures, and techniques in novels and the various travel genres. His very conventional form of literary history— murky about what he means by novel, genre, and generic interrelation—prevents the book from advancing innovatory theses about its material. But Adams' reading is so wide that, even so, he has written an important work of reference, one which will assist others in mapping the promised land Adams points to but does not enter." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)