Synopses & Reviews
By the end of the eighteenth century, British travelers had fanned out to every corner of the world, driven by widely varying motives: scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism. In letters, journals, and books, travelers wrote first-hand of exotic lands and beautiful scenery, and of encounters with strange peoples and wildlife. This anthology brings together the best writing from authors such as Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Equiano, Mungo Park, Maria Nugent and many others, to provide a comprehensive selection from this emerging literary genre.
About the Author
Elizabeth Bohls is the author of
Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 (1995).
Ian Duncan has edited editions by Conan Doyle, John Buchan, and Walter Scott for Oxford World's Classics and is the author of
Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2005).
Table of Contents
Europe and Asia Minor
The British Isles
Africa
The Caribbean
North America
Australia and the Pacific