Table of Contents

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

PAUL SMETHURST

PART ONE: The Discursive Terrains of Empire

1. Asia, Africa, Abyssinia: Writing the Land of Prester John
   MARY BAINE CAMPBELL
   
2. Richard Hakluyt’s Foreign Relations

MARY FULLER

3. Imperial Design and Travel Writing: New France 1603-1636
   JACK WARWICK
4. The Page as Private/ Public Space in Mariana Starke’s Travel Writings on Italy
   SUSAN PICKFORD
5. The Politics of Adventure: Theories of Travel, Discourses of Power
   ALI BEHDAD
   
6. Relocating Domesticity: Letters from India by Lady Hariot Dufferin
   EADAOIN AGNEW
7. Translating Culture: Harriet Martineau’s Eastern Travels
   LESA SCHOLL
   
   

PART TWO: Unravelling Forms of Travel

8. Signs in the Jungle: Michaux in Ecuador
   DAVID SCOTT
   
9. Deep Maps: Travelling on the Spot
   PETER HULME
10. Making it Move: The Aboriginal in the Whitefella's Artifact
    TIM YOUNGS
11. Reconciliation and Contemporary Australian Travel Writing
    ROBERT CLARKE
12. To Witness & Remember: Reconciliation Travel
    PETER BISHOP
    
13. The Political Tourist’s Archive: Susan Meiselar’s Images of Nicaragua
    MAUREEN MOYNAGH
    
14. Road to Nowhere? Los autonautas de la cosmopista by Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop
    CLAIRE LINDSAY

Afterword - Travel and Power
BILL ASHCROFT

Notes on Contributors

Index