Aborigines (of Australia) 34–35, 91, 129, 160–161
Achebe, Chinua 122
Addison, Joseph 115; Remarks on Several Parts of Italy 47, 100–105, 107, 108, 109, 110
Aeneas 169
African Association 47
African exploration/travel 31, 38, 40, 43, 46, 47, 49, 53, 81, 83, 87–88, 114, 120–122, 135, 137–149, 152, 155–158, 159; travel writing by Africans 50, 163
Africanus, Leo 142
Antarctic exploration/travel 53, 59, 113–114, 116, 197
Anthropological Society 55
anthropology (as academic discipline) 3–4, 11, 12, 23, 31–32, 57, 60, 91, 93–94, 141, 195
anti-tourism 54–55, 124; see also traveller/tourist distinction Antony, Mark 70
Apocalypse Now 25
Arctic exploration/travel 53, 94–95, 130–134, 166
Arens, William 141
Arthur (mythical king) 40, 108
Auden, W.H.: Journey to a War 59; Letters from Iceland 58
Augustine: Confessions 115
Austen, Jane: Persuasion 170
autobiography 12, 14, 88, 97, 98–99, 104, 110, 114–116, 118, 125, 172; travel as anti- or pseudo-autobiographical form 15; see also memoir; spiritual autobiography
backpackers 50
Bacon, Sir Francis 40–41, 73–74, 76; ‘Of Travel’ 43
Baedeker 49
Barley, Nigel: The Innocent Anthropologist 31–32; Symbolic Structures: An Exploration of the Culture of the Dowayo 32
Barrow, John: Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa 83
Bartram, John 51
Bartram, William: Travels through North and South Carolina, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country etc 51
Battutah, Ibn: Travels 40
Beckford, William 179
Bendixen, Alfred 51
Bible 39, 72; Exodus 35; Genesis 35
Biddlecombe, Peter 163; French Lessons in Africa 155–159, 160
Birkett, Dea: Jella: From Lagos to Liverpool 197; Serpent in Paradise 195
Bishop, Elizabeth: Questions of Travel 25
Boswell, James: Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 48
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de 46
Bourdieu, Pierre 119
Boyle, Robert 76
Brody, Hugh: Maps and Dreams 93–94, 166
Bryson, Bill 1, 13, 126; The Lost Continent 88–89, 96–97
Burton, Richard 53, 59, 60, 118, 177
Busi, Aldo: Sodomies in Elevenpoint 179
Buzard, James 122
Byron, Lord 179; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 25, 50, 52, 116
Byron, Robert 58; The Road to Oxiana 31, 58
Cain, Chelsea 195
cannibalism 43, 79, 140–141, 144
captivity narratives 19, 50, 171
Cartesian self 76, 83, 94, 103, 117
Casas, Bartolomé de las: Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies 43, 149–150
Casson, Lionel 34
centres of calculation 85, 184
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote 44
Charlemagne 40
Chatwin, Bruce 2, 13, 31; In Patagonia 30, 61, 127, 128; The Songlines 30, 31, 91, 127, 128–129, 160–161
Chaucer, Geoffrey: Canterbury Tales 38
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley: The Worst Journey in the World 59
Churchill, John and Awnsham: Collection of Voyages and Travels 78
Circe 169
Clark, William 46
Clinton, Bill 159
Clough, Arthur Hugh: Amours de Voyage 56
Cocker, Mark 6
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 50; ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ 52, 116
colonial discourse 136, 137–153, 155, 177, 191, 192; see also neo-colonialism
colonialism 42, 44, 52, 81, 82, 85, 135, 138, 144, 145, 150, 152–153, 157, 165, 178, 191–194; see also colonial discourse; imperialism; neo-colonialism; postcolonalism
Columbus, Christopher 13, 40–41, 73
Combe, William: The Tour of Dr Syntax 175
Conrad, Joseph 57; Heart of Darkness 15, 24, 25, 56, 122
Cooper, James Fenimore 151, 152
Coppola, Francis Ford 25
Coryat, Thomas: Coryat’s Crudities 43
counter-discourse 149, 191, 194
countertravel writing 164
Cowper, William 190
cultural capital 119, 124, 128, 160
Da Gama, Vasco 41
Dalrymple, William: City of Djinns 18
Dampier, William 52, 87; New Voyage
Round the World 46, 68, 74–79, 83
Darwin, Charles 33, 142; Voyage of the Beagle 53
Davidson, Robyn 2, 4–5, 160; Tracks 61, 196
Day, John: Travels of Three English Brothers 44
De Certeau, Michel 24
De Crèvecoeur, J.Hector St John de: Letters of an American Farmer 51
De Troyes, Chretien 40
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe 51, 79, 190
Descartes, René 76
Description de l’Egypte 82
dialogic travel writing 127
Diaz, Bernal: Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 70
Dickens, Charles: American Notes 55; Pictures from Italy 55
Didion, Joan: Salvador 195
Dido 169
discourse (in Foucauldian sense) 118, 126, 128, 135, 142, 143, 146, 147, 149, 182, 184; see also colonial discourse; counter-discourse
Diski, Jenni 31; Skating to Antarctica 113–114, 116
Dodwell, Christina: Travels in Papua New Guinea 195; Travels with Fortune 195
domestic tours 17, 48, 51, 122
Douglas, Norman 97
Drake, Francis 41
drama 44
Dryden, John 150
Eberhardt, Isabelle 56
Egeria 103, 115, 170; Pilgrimage of Egeria 36–37, 38
Eliot, T.S. 57
Elizabeth I (of England) 106, 108
empiricism 40–41, 42, 46, 47, 64–65, 73–74, 77, 78–83, 86, 91, 117, 118, 176
Enlightenment 117–118, 121, 125, 127, 142
epiphany 115, 120, 121, epistemological decorum 72, 73, 74, 76, 80
Equiano, Olaudah 50
estrangement 66
ethnography 4, 12, 23, 25, 31–32, 33, 36, 53, 55, 60, 73, 77, 93–94, 134, 147– 48, 195; travel writing as semi- or pseudo-ethnographic mode 87–88, 92, 98, 137
Eusebius 70
Evangelicalism 50
Everett, Daniel: Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes 94, 166
exploration 13, 15, 19, 21, 26, 33, 41, 49, 51, 52, 53, 59–60, 81, 92, 112, 118, 120–121, 130–134, 137–148, 177–178, 197; and women 55, 184, 192, 195, 197; as motif or metaphor 124; emergence of scientific explorer, 45–47, 81–85
Fabian, Johannes 147
farmer’s tours 48
Feifer, Maxine 126
feminism 3, 171–173, 180–181, 191–192
Fermor, Patrick Leigh 59
Fielding, Henry: Joseph Andrews 52
Flaubert, Gustav 54
Flinders, Matthew 46
Forbes, Rosita 58
Forster, George 118
Franklin, John 53
free indirect discourse 28
Frobisher, Martin 41
Frye, Northrop 17
Fussell, Paul 13–17, 18, 19–23, 26, 30, 31, 51, 97; Abroad 13, 171; Norton Anthology of Travel 13
gay travel writing 179
geography (as academic discipline) 3–4, 11, 12, 31, 91
George IV (of England) 131
Ghosh, Amitav 163; In an Antique Land 165
Gide, André: Voyage au Congo 58
Gilbert, Humphrey 41
Gliddon, J.R.: Types of Mankind 142
Gobineau, Comte de: Essai sur l’Inegalité des Races Humaines 142
Goldie, Terry 135
Graham, Maria 49, 170, 188; Journal of a Short Residence in Chile 183–184, 189–191
Grand Tour 44, 47, 48, 49, 100–105, 174
Greenblatt, Stephen 66, 67, 85, 86
Greene, Graham 11, 58; A Burnt Out Case 11; Journey without Maps 114, 121–122; The Lawless Roads 90
guidebooks 12, 13–15, 20, 23, 26, 36, 38, 43, 49, 84, 97
Hakluyt, Richard: Principall Navigations 20, 25, 42
Hall, Joseph: Mundus Alter et Idem 44
Halliburton, Richard 58
Hamara, Judith 51
Harriott, Thomas 51; A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia 42
Harrison, John 45
Heliodorus 37
Hemingway, Ernest 58
Henty, G.A. 140
Herodotus 22, 38, 64; Histories 36
Holland, Patrick 4, 6, 11, 30, 63, 80, 90, 92, 93, 97, 123, 125, 162, 179, 198
homosociality 177
Hooker, Sir William: Exotic Flora 184
Horace: ‘A Journey to Brundisium’ 36
Hudson, Henry 41
Huggan, Graham 4, 6, 11, 30, 63, 80, 90, 92, 93, 97, 123, 125, 162, 179, 198
Humboldt, Alexander von 46, 81
identity formation 119
imperialism 3, 13–14, 41, 47, 52–53, 56, 57, 86, 128, 136–153, 154–155, 162, 166, 176–178, 179, 191–194; see also colonial discourse; imperialist nostalgia; neo-colonialism
imperialist nostalgia 152, 164, 198
improving tours 48
Inden, Ronald 135
Industrial Revolution 49
International Monetary Fund 157
intersubjectivity 127
intertextuality 127
investigative travel writing 18–19
Irving, Washington 51, 176; Tour on the Prairies 177
Isherwood, Christopher: Journey to a War 59
itineraria 36
Iyer, Pico 163
Jameson, Anna 49
Jarvis, Robin 178
jih-chi 40
Johnson, Samuel 80, 105; Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 48
Journeys (journal) 25
Joyce, James 57
Justice, Elizabeth: A Voyage to Russia 48
Kadushin, Raphael: Wonderland: Good Gay Travel Writing 179
Kaplan, Robert: Balkan Ghosts 159
Kapuscinski, Ryszard 2; ‘The Ambush’ 87–88
Kempe, Margery 170
Kendall, Gillian: Something to Declare: Good Lesbian Travel Writing 195
Kerouac, Jack 195; Dharma Bums 59; On the Road 59
Khan, Kublai 39
Kincaid, Jamaica 163, 166; A Small Place 164
Kinglake, A.W.: Eothen 54
Kingsley, Mary 55, 170, 181, 188
Kipling, Rudyard 53, 177; Kim 56
Knox, Robert: The Races of Man 142
Knox, Vicesimus 44
Kpomassie, Tété-Michel 163
Kurtz, Irma 195
La Perouse, Comte de 46
Lamb, Jonathan 76
Latour, Bruno 85
Lawrence, D.H.: Mornings in Mexico 58; Sea and Sardinia 58
Lawrence, T.E.: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom 58
Le Vaillant, Francois 46
Lear, Edward: ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ 56
Least Heat-Moon, William: PrairyErth 127
Ledyard, John 112
Leed, Eric J. 171
Leonowens, Anna 55
Léry, Jean de 70; Histoire d’un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil 64
lesbian travel writing 195
Lévi-Strauss, Claude: Tristes Tropiques 60
Lewis and Clark expedition 46
Lewis, Meriweather 46
Lewis, Norman 59; The Missionaries 18
life writing 99
Linnaeus 81, 183; Systema Naturae 46
Lisle, Debbie 5, 90, 93, 119, 120, 154
Lithgow, William: Rare Adventures Essay Concerning Human Understanding 46
Lonely Planet 12
Lopez, Barry: Arctic Dreams 94–95, 166
Mackenzie, Alexander 46
MacNiece, Louis: Letters from Iceland 58
Magellan, Ferdinand 41
Mandeville, Sir John 40; Travels of Sir John Mandeville 39
Marryat, Frederick 53
Martineau, Harriet 56; Society in America 187
Martius, Carl von: Flora Brasilensis 184
Matthiesen, Peter: The Snow Leopard 61
Mayle, Peter: A Year in Provence 161
McElroy, Colleen 163
McPherson, James: Ossian 48
Melville, Herman: Typee 56
memoir 14, 18, 19–20, 26, 50, 52, 97, 171
Meredith, Louisa Ann 56
metonymy 132
Miller, Christopher 135
Mills, Sara 172, 173, 185, 191
mimetic capital 86
missionaries 18, 39, 50, 51, 52
modernist travel writing 57–59, 114
monarch of all I survey scene 120–121, 138, 190
Monbiot, George: Poisoned Arrows 18–19
Montagu, Mary Wortley 49, 80, 170, 171, 187, 194
Montaigne, Michel de: ‘On Cannibals’ 43, 150
Morison, Fynes: Itinerary written by Fynes Morison, gent. 43
Morris, Jan 59, 197–198; Venice 18
Morris, Mary 195; Virago Book of Women Travellers 172
Morton, H.V. 58
Mudimbe, V.Y. 135
Murray, John 49
naive empiricism 78–83, 86, 91
Napoleon 82
Nashe, Thomas: The Unfortunate Traveller 44
National Geographic 160
nature writing 12
navigationes 35
neo-colonialism 136, 153–162, 166
Nerval, Gérard de 54
Newton, John: Authentic Narrative 116
Nicholl, Charles: The Creature in the Map 92
noble savage 150–152, 160, 161
Nott, J.C.: Types of Mankind 142
novel 11, 14, 15–16, 31, 32, 45, 51–52, 56; as travel writing 24, 26; drawing on travel writing 51–52
O’Hanlon, Redmond 126, 128, 178–179
objectivism 72, 81–85, 87, 99, 107, 121, 185, 189
Orient Express 54
Orientalism 61, 134–135, 149, 150, 153, 165, 178, 179, 187, 194; see also Said, Edward
Orwell, George 58
Othello 78
othering 132–135, 140–141, 151, 153, 158, 159, 192
Ottoman Empire 153
Oviedo, Gonzalo Fernandez de 70–71
paratactic style 75
Park, Mungo 33, 46, 112, 118; Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa 49, 81
Parks, Fanny: A Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque 185
Parry, William 131
Pausanias 22; The Description of Greece 36
Peary, Robert 53
pedestrian travel 50, 112, 115
Penelope 168
periploi 36
Philip, Jim 6
Philips, Caryl 163; The European Tribe 164
Picador 1
picaresque 17, 44, 52, 59, 127, 195
picturesque tourism 48, 54, 109, 175, 178, 185–186, 192–193, 194
pilgrimage 19, 26, 36–37, 38–39, 40, 43, 115, 169, 170, 176; as motif or metaphor 106, 108, 115, 121–122, 124
Pitt-Kethley, Fiona: Journeys to the Underworld 195
poetry 25, 35, 36, 38, 45, 48, 52, 56, 115, 116
Polezzi, Loredana 8
Polo, Marco 13, 40, 69, 73; Travels of Marco Polo 39
polyphonic travel writing 127, 129
Porter, Dennis 6
postcolonial travelogues 136, 162–166
postcolonialism 2–3, 134–135, 136, 152; see also colonial discourse postmodernism 126–127
Pound, Ezra 57
Pratt, Mary Louise 93, 120, 145
Prince, Mary 50
probabilism 80
Psalmanazar, George: Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa 29, 79
psychoanalysis 57–58, 114, 121
Purchas, Samuel: Purchas his Pilgrimes
Putomayo tribespeople 149
Quarterly Review 187
quest 11, 16–17, 40, 44, 69, 108, 115, 124–125, 174, 176, 177, 189
quest romance 17, 40, 44, 69, 108, 174
Raban, Jonathan 11
race science 53, 142–143, 146, 151
Ralegh, Walter 41, 115, 121; Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana 42, 106–108, 110, 177–178
Ramusio, Giovanni Batista: Navigationi et Viaggi 42
Random House 1
Rennell, James 82
rihla 40
Rimbaud, Arthur: ‘Le bateau ivre’ 56
Robb, Peter: Midnight in Sicily 166
Robinson, Jane 172
romance 14, 15, 16–17, 37, 39, 40, 44, 52, 65, 69, 79, 108, 174
Romanticism 52, 54, 110–111, 115–118, 120, 125, 127, 150
Rosaldo, Renato 151
Ross, James Clarke 132
Ross, John 131, 138; Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of the North West Passage 130–134
Rough Guide 12
Rowlandson, Mary: The Sovereignty and Goodness of God 50, 171
Rowlandson, Thomas: The Tour of Dr Syntax 175
Rowley, William: Travels of Three English Brothers 44
Royal Geographical Society 55, 85
Royal Society 45, 46, 52, 74, 75, 76, 78, 85
Rushdie, Salman: The Jaguar Smile 163
Said, Edward 149, 152, 178; Orientalism 61, 134–135, 141, 149
Schaw, Janet 192
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang 57
Schneebaum, Tobias: Where the Spirits Dwell 179
science 23, 32, 33, 41, 45–46, 47, 53, 59–60, 68–69, 72, 74, 77, 79, 81–86, 93, 94–95, 118, 145–148, 175, 176, 182–184, 188, 195, 197; see also race science
scientific instruments 81
Scott, Robert Falcon 53, 59, 197
Scott, Sir Walter 81
Scramble for Africa 146
Sebald, W.G.: The Rings of Saturn 112–113, 127–128
sentimentalism 49, 97, 110–111, 116, 144, 148, 185–186, 192; see also Sterne, Laurence: Sentimental Journey separate spheres 169, 180, 186
Seth, Vikram 163
Shah, Tahir 163
Shakespeare, William 44; Antony and Cleopatra 70; Othello 78; The Tempest 44
Shapin, Steven 72
shipwreck narratives 19, 37, 50, 51, 116
showing (as narrative mode) 28, 110
simile 68
Smith, Adam 146
Smith, James: Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany 183
Smith, John 51
Smollett, Tobias: Humphrey Clinker 52
Social Darwinism 142
social sciences 3, 12, 23, 60, 91, 94, 147, 195
sociology (as academic discipline) 3–4, 91
spiritual autobiography 50, 51, 115, 116, 171
stadial theories (of human development) 146–147
Stanhope, Hester 170
Stanley, Henry Morton 53, 59, 60, 118, 151, 156, 177; Through the Dark Continent 120, 121, 137–148, 150, 152
Stark, Freya 58
Stegner, Wallace 30
Stendhal: Memoirs of a Tourist 55
Sterne, Laurence 54, 110, 186; A Sentimental Journey 15, 24, 49, 111–112, 113, 116–117, 126
Stevenson, Robert Louis 56
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 56; Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands 180
Strabo: Geography 36
Studies in Travel Writing (journal) 25
subjectivism 60, 95, 98–99, 110–111, 117–118, 120, 185
Sugnet, Charles 154
Suleri, Sara 135, 192–193, 194
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels 29, 51
Tacitus: Germania 150
Telemachus 168
telling (as narrative mode) 28, 110
temporalising tropes 147, 158, 160
Tennyson, Lord: ‘Locksley Hall’ 177
Thatcherism 157
Theroux, Paul 1, 2; The Great Railway Bazaar 61; The Old Patagonian Express 61
Thesiger, Wilfred 60; The Marsh Arabs 93
Thubron, Colin 59
Tordesillas, Treaty of 41
tourism 2, 38, 45, 47–50, 54, 122–124, 161–162, 164, 169, 170; contrasted with ‘real’ travel 14, 21, 22; see also: anti-tourism; Grand Tour; picturesque tours; post-tourism; sentimental tours; tourist angst; tourist gaze; traveller/tourist distinction
tourist angst 123
Traill, Catherine Parr 56
travel blogs 61
travel liars 29–30, 64–65, 79, 84
travel manuals 49
travel writing in verse 25, 36, 38, 50, 52, 58–59, 115, 116
traveller/tourist distinction 21, 122–124
Trollope, Anthony 182
Trollope, Frances 49; Domestic Manners of the Americans 182
Turberville, George: ‘Letters in Verse, written by Master George Turberville, out of Muscovy 1568’ 25
Twain, Mark 55; The Innocents Abroad 55; Roughing It 151, 177; A Tramp Abroad 108–112
Vespucci, Amerigo 41
Vintage Departures 1
Virgil: Aeneid 169
voyages and travels (generic label) 4, 19–20, 22, 26, 32–33, 42, 44, 47, 50, 60, 78
Waganda tribespeople 148
Wallace, Alfred Russel 53
Ware, Vron 193
Waugh, Evelyn 58
Wenamon 34
West, Rebecca 58
Wharton, Edith 56
Wheeler, Sara: Terra Incognita 197
White, Edmund: States of Desire 179
Whitehead, Neil 91
Whitman, Walt: ‘Song of the Open Road’ 56
Wilkins, George: Travels of Three English Brothers 44
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 26
Wollstonecraft, Mary 49, 171, 181
women travel writers 3, 43, 48–49, 51, 55–56, 105, 125, 170–173, 175, 180–198; scholarly neglect 22, 171–172
Wordsworth, Dorothy 48
Wordsworth, William 50; The Excursion 52; ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’; The Prelude 52
World Bank 157
Young, Arthur 48
Young, Robert 143
Younge, Gary 163
Youngs, Tim 135
yu-chi 40
Ziff, Larzer 171