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The paper examines modern knowledge about non-human primates in Czech travel narratives concerning Africa and biological journals from the late nineteenth century to the end of the interwar period. Particular attention is given to the way discourse on primates and anthropological discourse mutually influenced each other. Inspired by the intersection of human -- animal studies, critical race theory, and gender studies, the paper emphasizes the anthropomorphizing character of biological discourse and popular travel narratives. At the time, presentations of primates created a specific anthropological resource and, in addition, helped to naturalize the dominant racial and gender ideologies. In the context of the Austrian--Hungarian and Czechoslovakian relative inability to obtain colonial possessions in the way western powers did, the representations of anthropomorphized non-human primates can also be interpreted as a specific field where Czech colonial fantasies about dominance were expressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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From the Second Anglo-Dutch War to the fall of the United Provinces (c. 1670–1795), dozens of English writers published accounts of their travels across the North Sea. The English and the Dutch were bound by centuries of intellectual, political, and cultural interaction. Factors like a shared confession and similar economic structures meant that Anglo-Dutch relations were uniquely intimate, and this close relationship allowed a nuanced and complex exploration of political ideas. This article recreates one of those ideas that was repeated so often in English travel writing: that the Dutch Republic was free. This freedom was presented as a Faustian pact. In practice, the Dutch state guaranteed many freedoms that the English lauded, such as the right to property, to government accountability, and to efficient justice. However, English writers disdained the theories that underpinned these freedoms, which were viewed as egalitarian and republican. It was argued that these suspect doctrines led the United Provinces down the path to licentiousness, luxury, and decline. Paradoxically, therefore, the nature of Dutch freedom determined both the country's rise and its fall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In India, male dominance historically prevailed in the realms of travel and travel writing due to their alignment with ideals of masculine courage and sexuality. However, in the post-millennial era, Indian women began to emerge as solo travelers in the tourism industry, facilitated by increased access to higher education and diverse professions. By analyzing the travel memoir of Shivya Nath, a prominent Indian female travel blogger, titled The Shooting Star (2018), this article explores the concept of solo travel as a heterotopic space—a realm of resistance and negotiation that empowers women and offers an alternative form of liberation. Nath's memoir celebrates female emancipation, defying narratives of victimhood. The argument presented is that solo travel represents an active form of resistance against gender stereotypes, enabling women to overcome personal fears and logistical obstacles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

You are scrolling through the results of your latest search for papers. You wade through the papers you've been planning to read for ages; papers you could put aside to read this summer; papers you say you've read but really haven't; papers you've actually read ... but don't remember; when a paper catches your eye. You prepare to puzzle through the complex explanations of VERY IMPORTANT CONCEPTS and the (unfulfilled?) promise of a contribution to *the literature*. But as you start reading you are pleasantly surprised. The tone is almost jovial; the writing is fresh and accessible. But there seems to be an error; the paper is missing the discussion and conclusion. You try and track down the original paper but end up with a different one. You contact the journal and ask for a replacement, only to find yourself with a different paper again. Slowly, however, you are beginning to enjoy yourself. Each paper you read leads you on a different journey. A flurry of words, styles, genres, tones. And in all the papers is you: the reader, the writer, the text. * * * Inspired by If on a Winter's Night a traveller by Italo Calvino this paper explores the intimate relationships between the reader, the writer, and the text. I interweave second person tales of a writer and a reader, trying to write a text across time and space, with reflections on the value of the concepts of the 'implied author' and 'implied reader' for writing differently in management and organisation studies. In particular, I give attention to an often overlooked, yet ever present, part of writing differently in organisation studies: the reader. I address the reader as someone who, like the writer, is actively produced through engagement with the text and the according political and aesthetic implications. Ultimately, I argue that it matters deeply how readers are positioned in texts and how the reader comes to understand themselves through the text for realising the potential of writing differently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Responding to Wendy Bracewell's work on travellee readers, this article examines how readers of eighteenth-century geography books – those I call the geo-graphed – responded to descriptions of their respective regions by foreign geographers. I focus on the case of geographer Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724–1793), author of the widely circulated and translated Neue Erdbeschreibung [New Earth Description] (1754–1792), an immense, descriptive geographical project that sought to order the Enlightenment globe for German-speaking and broader European publics. I discuss how readers in Switzerland, Great Britain and the German states responded to Büsching's descriptions of their respective countries in his geography. I argue that critically "writing back" to such geographical descriptions was also a matter of co-producing knowledge of the globe, or "writing with". Moreover, I contend that patriotic sentiment was central in shaping the responses of the geo-graphed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

First coined by Mary Louise Pratt in 1992, the concept of the "travellee" has received a growing amount of interest in research on travel writing. Exploring the methodological possibilities opened up by the perspective of the travellee, the six articles in this special issue aim both to sharpen the edges of this concept and to test it as a key which may open doors into new disciplinary directions, including geography, political history, anthropology, and translation studies. As the contributions confirm, the encounter between self and other which defines travel writing is certainly a more multifaceted phenomenon than simply an instance where a travelling self acknowledges the presence of "locals". Indeed, attention to the agency and multiple roles of travellees helps to elucidate not only the cultural significance of travel writing but also its temporal dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although travel vlogs have recently been adopted as digital marketing tools to promote tourist spots, relatively little is known about which attributes of travel vlogs and how these attributes motivate audiences to travel. This study emphasizes the importance of information conveyed by the content of travel vlogs and aims to explore how the information quality (information usefulness, ease of use, and comprehensiveness) in travel vlogs affects audience travel intention through presence, enjoyment, and flow experience. The partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) is adopted to analyze data collected from 241 respondents who had experience with watching travel vlogs. The results indicate that the three facets of information quality positively influence travel intention through the mediating role of presence, enjoyment, and flow experience. The total effect of information comprehensiveness on travel intention is the strongest, followed by information usefulness and ease of use orderly. The findings extend the literature on travel vlogs by validating the role of information quality in travel vlogs. In line with this, travel vlog creators are suggested to pay attention to information management when making vlogs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the relationship between cultural memory and cultural identity in Tahir Shah's travel narratives. The author analyzes Shah's books to understand how he portrays the cultural identity of Morocco through memory and how he defines his own identity through his experiences in the country. The article discusses the role of memory in establishing individual and cultural identity and explores the socio-cultural elements and cultural memory present in Shah's works. It also delves into the cultural identity of Morocco, focusing on aspects such as architecture, language, work culture, and storytelling. The importance of storytelling in preserving cultural memory and shaping cultural identity is emphasized, with the author sharing personal experiences and encounters with storytellers in Morocco. The text highlights the transformative power of stories in shaping individual and cultural identities and underscores the significance of memory in this process. [Extracted from the article]

"Travellers in the Great Steppe: From the Papal Envoys to the Russian Revolution" by Nick Fielding is a book that explores the accounts of various travelers to Central Asia. The book covers a wide range of historical periods, from the thirteenth century to the twentieth century, with a focus on the nineteenth century. The author pays attention to the experiences and writings of women travelers and includes diverse perspectives. While the book provides fascinating details and is based on extensive research, it does not offer critical analysis or in-depth exploration of specific themes. However, it serves as a valuable resource for researchers looking for primary texts to study further. [Extracted from the article]

Travel Culture, Travel Writing and Bengali Women, 1870-1940 by Jayati Gupta focuses on the travel writings by Bengali women from the undivided Bengal province during the colonial period. The book is one of its kind as it forwards the unheard voices of these women, most of whom have never gained prominence in the field of travel writing study. One of the central reasons for such oblivion is the male predominance over the genre of travel writing, as travelling was often considered a male prerogative. Patriarchy has always imposed different restrictions upon the movement of women. The allocated space for women, according to the patriarchal notion, is the home, and henceforth women have always been associated with immobility and domesticity. On the contrary, freedom, recklessness, and a fondness for adventure have always been the best and ideal attributes of a man. Then there is no wonder that the earlier travel narratives that survived through the ages were predominantly male narratives where women had little or almost no role. But they were not completely absent from the texts either. In each period, numerous women travellers travelled as companions to their husbands or father, but the accounts of their experience of the journey have often been dismissed as “quotidian and self-congratulatory” (Gupta xviii). It was only after the late eighteenth century, as observed by Carl Thompson, when tourism flourished and became more widespread, that the opportunity for women to travel for pleasure and recreational purposes increased (169). Women started to travel and publish their travel accounts. But most of these accounts are predominantly Western travel accounts. As Mary Morris observed, “[E]arly women travel writers were women of the upper class in European society, invariably white and privileged” (Morris, quoted in Siegel 2).

The present article aims to explore in broad lines the evolution of French zoopoetics thought and its main directions of research. Unlike the anglophone animal studies, the French zoopoetics is offering a slightly different methodology, much more focused on thematic and narratological aspects. In order to exemplify the paradigm shift produced by the zoopoetic approach in France, we will focus our article on Sylvain Tesson’s travelogue La panthère des neiges (2019). The travelogue, through its referential dimension, marks a transition from the generalizing perspective of the animal world to a specific, local and individual approach.

The article explores how Richard Harrington’s travelogue The Face of the Arctic (1952) responds to and represents the changing Canadian Arctic at the beginning of the Cold War, with a focus on Harrington’s famous photographs of the Padlei famine that were essential in changing the public’s image of the region at the time. Whereas scholars so far have downplayed the complexity of these photographs, this study offers a rereading of the Padleimiut photographs that draws on W. J. T. Mitchell’s concept of imagetext. The analysis of these photographs in relation to the text they appear alongside, the article argues, facilitates a more dynamic understanding of the images and their meaning. As such, the present study exemplifies how Arctic images are dependent on their specific contexts and on contextualizing interpretations.

The article offers information on curating a mixtape of African literature, emphasizing the evolving nature of the literary landscape and the need for representation without confinement. Topics discussed include the challenges of framing literature within limited perspectives; the importance of incorporating diverse voices and genres such as travel writing, translation and indigenous languages; and the invitation for readers to explore and reconsider their views on African literature.

Throughout the nineteenth century, published British travelogues revered Prague, bringing the city to the attention of the rest of Europe. Tropes and motifs predicated on German, Oriental, and classical imagery filled the pages of British travelogues, which were, in turn, entertained by Czech go-betweens in their own texts. This article explores the circulation of knowledge in compelling narratives between the travel writers and go-betweens who mapped out temporal representations of the city. A time-knowledge framework not only reveals how Prague’s temporal culture manifested itself in literary narratives and exchanges, but starts to rethink the development of the cultural, political, and social knowledge of the city, by demonstrating how different actors contributed to its production.

The main aim of Martín Caparrós' El interior, as indicated in the prologue, is to capture the essence of what can be understood as "Argentina." Subsequently, the narrative strongly adopts a spatial dimension. Leveraging the spatial theories proposed by Lefebvre (1974), Soja (1985), and de Certeau (2000), this article endeavors to examines how Caparrós portrays this social-spatial construct, which embodies a country, within his text. Additionally, it investigates how Caparrós employs the space within the reportage to relate his own life, his inner own journey. Utilizing theories that explore autobiographical concepts, this analysis scrutinizes the correlation between the reporter and historical intellectual and travelers, particularly Sarmiento, emphasizing the influence of said position on the spatial representation within the book. Furthermore, it explores the reporter’s stance on the center/periphery binary, highlighting the "camaraderie" evident in his text and its relevance to his interlocutors. Lastly, considering that Caparrós' narrative primarily seeks the imaginary, the article will delve into the theme of tropographic representation (Andermann 2000) of space, analyzing the symbols of popular mythology present in the text.

The article discusses the egodocumentary travel writing of trips to/inside Lithuania, which is characterised by an autobiographical first-person narration, and examines its origins, development, and dissemination. Based on the methodological paradigms of research into the cultural heritage of a manuscript and printed book, the concepts of memory archive, book communication cycle, and the social life of books, an attempt is made to draw the boundaries among the types of this writing (typology), and the intentions of the writing and publishing process are revealed. The case study is based on manuscript and published travel descriptions by both Lithuanian and foreign authors for the routes in the territory of Lithuania or on the Lithuanian border. It was found that first-person narration and an author’s ‘participation’ are present not only in manuscript travel accounts that are personal and those belonging to one’s relatives (family, clan, descendants), but also in texts that engage a wider audience and are published and distributed through various media. The attempt at a typology of travel egodocumentation revealed a gap between a genetic taxonomy based on the notion of the personal archive as a treasure trove of memory and a literary classification based on contemporary genres of travel writing. Travel accounts were created on the basis of the worldview prevailing in the society of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which formed a canon different from the European one. Noteworthy are the hitherto understudied egodocumentary marginalia, diaries in calendars that reflect the culture of travel in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Travel live streaming's growing popularity among viewers provides unprecedented opportunities for live streamers. This study explores the persuasive linguistic styles of travel live streamers, underpinned by Hovland's persuasion theory and Aristotle's rhetoric persuasion modes. Through 23 in-depth interviewees, four dimensions of live streamer linguistic persuasion styles are identified, which include appeals to emotion, logic, credibility, and a new dimension, appeal to social. This new dimension extends Hovland's persuasion theory and offers new practical insights into how the persuasive linguistic styles of live streamers may be cultivated to effectively influence viewers in travel live streaming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay illuminates a late nineteenth-century literary connection between Ireland and Greece, also revealing hitherto unexplored layers of the vibrant fin-de-siècle salon cultures in Paris and related literary and artistic networks. As a transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration, the essay maps a process of archival discovery in the National Library of Greece, Athens: a significant cache of letters from Hannah Lynch, Irish New Woman, Ladies' Land League activist, author of a truly international and diverse body of travel writing, cultural commentary and fiction, to Dimitrios Vikélas, iconic figure of nineteenth-century Greece. The discovery of Lynch's significant textual and photographic presence in the archive amassed by Vikélas, man of letters and scholar, translator, novelist, philanthropist and founding President of the International Olympic Committee, is significant for several reasons: Lynch's correspondence reveals further details that flesh out the biography of this marginalised writer; the letters also offer insights into the struggles of a "woman of letters" in the late nineteenth-century literary and publishing landscape, documenting where articles are published and sometimes the remuneration; finally, letters in the Vikélas archive from Lynch and those who were part of their shared Pariscentred intellectual networks foreground patronage, collaboration, friendship and underpinning salon culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Edward Said’s Memoir, Out of Place, challenges travel writings conventions by proposing a new definition of exile. This study aims at investigating the narrative aspects of diaspora and the new concept of exile as depicted in Said's narrative by analyzing his personal experiences of exile and dislocation. Understanding the importance of breaking these patterns enables readers to critically evaluate traditional travel narratives and engage with a variety of perspectives. From a postcolonial standpoint, we analyze how Said's work provides a new perspective on the postcolonial world's problems of displacement, belonging, and self-construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Women who wrote amidst their travels in the Caribbean and Mexico in the early nineteenth century were uncommon. Yet there they were, traveling and contributing through their actions and words to colonial and imperial processes, exercised through their daily relationships in local environments. The purpose of this article is to explore one theme in their private writings—the way they established their transient homes—and in doing so, consider the connection between their travels and colonial hierarchies. Household management, defined broadly as those activities related to establishing and maintaining the domestic space, provides a helpful window through which to compare traveling women's experiences. I argue that the traveling women enacted household management in similar ways, contributing to the crossroads of existing hierarchies based on race and class. Using a historian's perspective informed by feminist and transatlantic approaches, this project centers the private writings of four North Atlantic women, Maria Nugent, Margaret Curson, Frances Calderón de la Barca, and Susan Shelby Magoffin, who each traveled in the Caribbean and/or Mexico in the early nineteenth century. Examining household management as portrayed in the traveling women's private writings highlights the locational specificities that gave power to—and limited the power of—a ubiquitous, but never universal, colonial white womanhood in the Americas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article challenges imagological historiography that contends Bosnia-Herzegovina represented a no-go zone for British tourists before the First World War because of its reputation for cultural backwardness and political instability. Through an analysis of published travelogues, travel guides, and travel journalism, as well as their reception in Britain, it places the evolution of images of Bosnia-Herzegovina in dialogue with British anxieties about the detrimental effects of industrial society. This article argues that the country (administered by Austria-Hungary from 1878 and annexed in 1908) became a popular destination for upper-class British tourists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as it was constructed as unspoiled by mechanical civilisation and free from lower-class tourists. Travel writers, most notably Henri Moser whose travel guide An Oriental Holiday (1895) will be closely examined, were imbricated with Austro-Hungarian authorities and regularly employed by the regime to promote this romantic image of Bosnia-Herzegovina to British audiences. This article concludes by demonstrating that the upsurge in touristic interest in Bosnia-Herzegovina was short-lived because of growing political tensions between Britain and Germany but provides a forceful counterpoint to imagological historiography that suggests the imagined geography of the region was defined in entirely negative terms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyse the image of Montenegrin women in Italian travelogues published to mark the Savoy – Petrović marriage which took place in 1896. By comparing the observations of Italian travel writers, we seek to determine the circumstances that affected their representation and to establish how the image of women influenced the way this country was presented to Italian readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the literary and domestic networks of Mary (c 1847–1939) and Matilda (1842–1906) Banim, and the connections they forged on a personal level and in the wider world of publishing and philanthropy. Foregrounding earlier nineteenth-century female philanthropic networks and collaborations, such as those around the establishment of St Joseph's Infirmary for Sick Children (later Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin), I demonstrate first how Mary Banim inserted herself into the enabling spaces that these women created. Collaborating with her sister Matilda Banim, an illustrator, Mary Banim also published a series of travel articles which were reprinted in book form as Here and There Through Ireland, (1891, 1892). This work showcases Mary and Matilda Banim's representation of "the real Irish people," their collaboration as writer and artist, and their unique and particular brand of social journalism which offers rare glimpses of nineteenth-century literary and social culture from a female perspective. In addition, by drawing attention to a significant but forgotten sibling partnership and exploring the public lives of two private sisters, this article contributes to a growing field of scholarship on familial collaborations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditional summaries of the Sobieski Stuart brothers' publications have tended to focus on their novel, Tales of the Century , published in 1846, and their various volumes of poetry, published between 1822 and 1869. Recent research has uncovered a considerable number of previously unattributed pieces written by the brothers in the 1830s, and published anonymously in journals of the period. This paper builds upon that work, identifying a number of pieces of travel literature penned by the brothers and their immediate family members in the 1850s, before arguing that the pair were early converts to the genre, having written a series of travel articles for a Glasgow periodical, The Day , in 1832. Taken together, these newly attributed pieces allow us to examine a hitherto unexplored facet of the brothers' work, and potentially influence how modern scholars consider their better-known publications, not least in the areas of humour, historical accuracy, and geographical diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Representations of Jerusalem and the Holy Land during the time of the British Mandate in Palestine (1918–1948) appear in the works of four modern Greek authors of the interwar period: Ouranis, Kazantzakis, Sikelianos, and Seferis. Their works encompass different genres—travel writing (Ouranis and Kazantzakis), diaries (Sikelianos and Seferis), and poetry (Seferis)—and foreground questions about religion and religiosity, identity, class struggle, and modernization. The landscape of the Holy Land turns out to be different, foreign, sometimes even completely desolate, and this realization initiates a process of remembering which ultimately takes the Greek authors back to the familiar places they apparently call home: the Aegean Sea and the Acropolis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article traces Kazantzakis' attitudes towards America in works from the pre- and post-war periods. In doing so, it reveals his growing interest in visiting the country or even settling there for an extended period. The pretexts for such a journey were diverse and variously described by the writer as a means to 'renew his vision', to find a secure place to work, and to launch endeavours intended to 'save' Greece from afar. Though Kazantzakis' antipathy to 'Americanization' remained, he was more prepared over time to tolerate these defects, while becoming increasingly sensible to the pull of other demands and attractions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From 1709 to 1711, Thomas Prince (1687-1758), recent Harvard graduate and future minister of Boston's Old South Church, traveled between Boston, Barbados, and London. His travel journal (now in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society) excerpted passages from English poetry and popular song from the previous five decades. By transcribing the works of a politically and religiously diverse range of authors (Whig and Tory, Nonconformist and Anglican), Prince made the case for a tolerant, patriotic, and cosmopolitan Britishness. In late February and early March 1710, while Prince was in London, Anglican minister Henry Sacheverell was impeached by Parliament for preaching a sermon questioning Nonconformists' loyalty. During his trial, anti-Dissenter rioting broke out in London and spread across England and Wales. As Prince transcribed poems for and against Sacheverell, he bemoaned the factional contention that was undermining British unity. In the middle of the nineteenth century, Chandler Robbins Gilman and Chandler Robbins, both great-grandnephews of Prince, incorporated brief excerpts from his travel journal in fictional tales and sketches. Gilman and Robbins used these fragments to symbolize the cultural continuity between England, New England, and the United States, overlooking the contingency and fragility of British identity in Prince's account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This text is a collection of 18 fragments written during a trip to New Delhi during February and March 2014. They can be seen as a discontinuous short travel diary which develops comparative cultural criticism between Brazil and India from ordinary experiences. As they try to develop concepts from everyday occurrences they also end up fusing academia and tourism in a way that both are eventually improved. [Article copies available for a fee from The Transformative Studies Institute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For most of the literary historians, the time period between the 1880s and 1920s have generally been accepted as the climax years of the notion of literary travelling not only in Europe but also in England. This type of journeying fashion is seen in the literary works of many English writers such as Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle and many others. Literary travel can be considered as roaming of places of literary interest for pleasure where the traveller could experience and re-memory of birthplaces, homes, haunts and even graves of the prominent literary figures. Visiting places related with the particular writers or books coincides with bicycle condensed years of the last quarter of the nineteenth century (fin de siècle) in England. In addition to the above writers, Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell are two different kind of travellers and their published account namely Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy is worth scrutinizing. Both as American citizens, the Elizabeth Robins and Joseph Pennells decided to move to England in 1884, where they carried on their artistic and literary engagements for nearly thirty years, and the couple regularly had the chance to travel to Europe and brought their cultural baggage there on their tricycles. Joseph Pennell was born in Philadelphia, and he was an acclaimed lithographer of his time. After graduating from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Joseph worked on the illustrations of travel articles and books for American publishers for a while. Through the mutual connection and overlapping of these two fin de siècle trends (literary travel and cycle travel) and the above-mentioned text of the Pennells', this paper argues that the sentimental preconception of cycling complicates the experience of travelling for the above-mentioned couple as they tried to imitate Laurence Sterne, well-known writer of novels and travel accounts. For this respect, some supportive quotations will be given from the Pennells' text in which they both lack to illustrate their sentimental mood in times and in other times, successfully show their joy enthusiasm in their pedalling with their tricycles. Thus, the foremost aim of this paper is to elaborate on Pennells' text claiming their intertextual allusions on their former model Laurence Sterne. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article situates Richard Norwood's (1590–1674) manuscript spiritual autobiography "Confessions" at the intersection of diverse literary influences and modes of writing, including artisan and "middling sort" life writing and travel writing of the early modern period. It argues that, in Norwood's hands, spiritual autobiography became a highly flexible textual template and a rich testimony of his mobility, which intertwined with and gave shifting meanings to Norwood's spiritual and embodied movement throughout the narrative. My argument is informed by a material reading of the manuscript (held in Bermuda Archives) and recent work in nonlinear and "ongoing" migration and mobility studies, seeing Norwood's text as a rich retrospective, yet unsettled record of his perpetual geographic and social mobility, which Norwood explained by his precarious employments and inability to settle in his faith. Considering the material text in relation to Norwood's mobility allows scholars to approach the text and its author from a fresh vantage point, and to reevaluate its retrospective processing, construction, and editing, appreciating how "Confessions" presents Norwood's life as "unmoored," never reaching the spiritual settling he so yearned for. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Guidebooks are by now an integral feature within travel writing studies. This article presents a detailed contextual reading of George Carey's The Balnea (1799–1801): the first general guidebook to English leisure resorts. Although the work is occasionally cited by scholars, little attention has been paid to The Balnea's status as a text, to the changes that were made across its three editions, or to its nineteenth-century afterlife. My discussion elaborates both the pioneering aspects of Carey's text and the clash it stages between two distinct forms of travel writing: the systematic guidebook and the first-person travelogue. A digressive and uneven work, The Balnea struggles to match Carey's ambitions for either comprehensiveness or impartiality. At the same time, I argue, Carey's incorporation of a series of sentimental anecdotes and ballads engenders misgivings about his reliability as an author and the factual grounding of the text-as-travelogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay considers Bruce Chatwin from a fresh perspective of queer stylistics. Special emphasis is laid on his cruising between fact and fiction in travel writing and his own life, as well as on his constant queering of generic and representational norms. The Chatwinesque style is defined here through its textual and generic transgressions, as part of which the Foucauldian-Barthesian and French feminist tactics of jouissance are reframed as a queer bodily practice. However, when read through queer theory, Chatwin's output comes across as ridden with internal contradictions. While resembling queer practices of failing, cruising, or generally subversion, Chatwin's works fail to align with queer ethics. It is so because his queer style is not so much used to critique the socio-cultural conventions of his times as for symbolic and economic success, marketed in the mainstream, heteronormative economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Oswell Blakeston's four now largely forgotten travel books, Portuguese Panorama (1955), Isle of St. Helena (1957), Sun at Midnight: Finland Holiday (1958), and Thank You Now: An Exploration of Ulster (1960), warrant the attention of contemporary scholars of travel writing. This article outlines how Blakeston's writing about his travels, or holidays, further illuminates contemporary historical explorations of the continuum, rather than categorical opposition, between tourist guidebooks and travel writing. Blakeston's travel writing also exhibits a degree of what Debbie Lisle describes as "political reflexivity". Related to this, his work narrates ethical interactions with new friends encountered on his journeys, while also dramatising some of the inevitable limitations this entails. Analysis of Blakeston's travel writing also highlights links between the preoccupations detailed above and his queer modernist cultural lineage. This article therefore expands our historical understanding of the diversity of queer British travel writing during the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Colonial travel writing performed ideological functions in North Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The images, stories, and narratives composing its representation- created a distorted reality of the colonized lands to normalize and legitimize colonialism. This study contributes to offering a more literary account of how colonial writings about Morocco targeted social and political institutions or organizations as part of its imperial project in the region. To this end, this study examines two travel accounts (Morocco That Was and In Morocco) to identify how they represent the Moroccan ruler, tribe, and resistance during the colonial period. Based on postcolonial and critical discourse analysis perspectives, the findings of this research showed that representation of these aspects of Moroccan life during that period endorsed the colonial and imperial project in Morocco. In the meantime, the study recommended the integration of this colonial discourse earlier in Moroccan textbooks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The tourism experience has always been a hot topic in tourism research. However, the tourism experience of people with visual impairment (PwVI) has its own particularity. This paper explores the unique tourism experience of PwVI based on travel notes written by them. Since PwVI are often accompanied by volunteers when travelling, this paper also discusses the impact of the interaction between volunteers and PwVI on the tourism experience, and analyses the intermediary role of the sense of helplessness experienced by PwVI in the above impact. The empirical results based on a self-administered questionnaire completed by visually impaired groups show that ① the interaction between volunteers and PwVI has a significant positive correlation with the seven unique tourism experiences of PwVI, and ② This correlation is partially mediated by the sense of helplessness. The results show that positive interaction helps to reduce the sense of helplessness of PwVI and thus improves their tourism experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the other hand, an exclusively inter-Celtic perspective on the relationship between Wales and Brittany that bypasses French risks reducing the complexity of Brittany's case. For a Welsh French Studies: Breton Poets "Writing to Wales" In 2003, I wrote a paper describing the work of Breton regionalists of the nineteenth century as "writing I to i Paris".[1] What I meant was that, while celebrating their native region and its culture, these writers had one eye on Parisian literary tastes and fashions, and that this focus on Paris was an inescapable part of their success. [Extracted from the article]

These early texts thus conformed to the Enlightenment model of largely urban travel narratives, with the added exoticism of vivid depictions of rural Australia. It was a French Enlightenment thinker who first challenged the dominance of urban spaces in travel writing. In more recent work, female writers Patricia Gotlib and Emmanuelle Ferrieux find in rural Australia the means of recovery from the trauma that has spurred them to travel, which they locate in fast-paced, urban European life. [Extracted from the article]

The Balkan Committee was founded in London in 1902 in response to growing British concerns about unrest in the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Its key objective was to monitor local events and inform the British public about regional developments. The Committee claimed to be a hub of valid, reliable, and expertly processed knowledge about the region. In this paper I attempt to reconstruct how the members of the Balkan Committee interpreted political developments in Southeast Europe and how they circulated knowledge through various British social organisations. I show that the knowledge disseminated by the Balkan Committee was a resource that fuelled and mobilised British public opinion and political and economic interest in the region. At the same time, the efforts of the Committee members resonated with their historical and social anxieties: the better they understood the Balkans, the better the chances of avoiding a European conflagration in particular, and the easier they would be able to facilitate the progress of the local population in general. I argue that the Balkan Committee framed the information and facts at their disposal in accordance with British travel writing traditions, which fundamentally influenced the way they represented the Balkans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]