Tourist with typewriters (Critical reflections on contemporary travel writing)
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
- ISBN13 9780472087068
- ISBN10 0472087061
- Type BOOK
- Pages 261
- Published 2001
- Bookbinding Rustic
Tourist with typewriters (Critical reflections on contemporary travel writing)
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book details
As the first extensive survey of contemporary travel writing, Tourists with Typewriters offers a series of challenging and provocative critical insights into a wide range of travel narratives written in English after the Second World War. The book focuses in particular on contemporary travel writers such as Jan Morris, Peter Matthiessen, V. S. Naipaul, Barry Lopez, Mary Morris, Paul Theroux, Peter Mayle, and the late Bruce Chatwin. It examines some of the reasons for travel writing's enduring popularity and for its particular appeal to present-day readers, many of them also travelers. The book will appeal to general readers interested in a closer examination of travel writing and to academic readers in disciplines such as literary/cultural studies, geography, history, anthropology, and tourism studies.