This book brings the 'serious' world of politics to the 'superficial' world of contemporary travel writing.

With its specific focus on the connections between politics, travel, and travel writing, Not So Innocent Abroad offers a fresh approach to the study of travel l

The nexus between travel, writing and media in the contemporary world is dense: travel practice is increasingly interwoven with media; representations in old an

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This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an a