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Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
Tabish (Ed) Khair
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Description for Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
Paperback. A critical anthology of African and Asian travel writing, revealing the contribution made to the genre by non-European travellers and writers. Editor(s): Khair, Tabish; Edwards, Justin D.; Leer, Martin. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 202 x 13. Weight in Grams: 478.
Travel writing is a genre monopolised by Westerners. For centuries the preserve of Europeans who reported on the "exotic", it sought to make sense of other landscapes and cultures, but almost exclusively through a European prism of references. This anthology, stretching from the fifth to the nineteenth centuries, introduces an entirely different tradition of travel writing - the work of travellers from the world beyond Europe. Other Routes collects important primary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in English translation. Encompassing spiritual journeys, the personal, ethnography, natural history, geography, cartography, navigation, politics, history, religion and diplomacy, it shows ... Read more
Travel writing is a genre monopolised by Westerners. For centuries the preserve of Europeans who reported on the "exotic", it sought to make sense of other landscapes and cultures, but almost exclusively through a European prism of references. This anthology, stretching from the fifth to the nineteenth centuries, introduces an entirely different tradition of travel writing - the work of travellers from the world beyond Europe. Other Routes collects important primary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in English translation. Encompassing spiritual journeys, the personal, ethnography, natural history, geography, cartography, navigation, politics, history, religion and diplomacy, it shows ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904955122
SKU
V9781904955122
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Ref
99-5
About Tabish (Ed) Khair
Tabish Khair teaches at the University of Aarhus, Denmark; Justin Edwards is an associate professor at Copenhagen University, Denmark; Martin Leer is an associate professor at Copenhagen University, Denmark; Hanna Ziadeh is a consultant for the Danish Home Ministry.
Reviews for Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
"What sets apart the narratives in this volume is that the writers who feature in it are not seized by a compulsion to fit what they see into familiar narratives - thus their meticulousness in noting details and noticing the unfamiliar. And this too is why this collection is so timely and necessary: because it reminds us of the spirit ... Read more