Tourists with typewriters
critical reflections on contemporary travel writing
by Patrick Holland
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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.
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History and criticism, English prose literature, American prose literature, Travelers' writings, American, Travelers' writings, English, Travel writing, Travel in literature, History, Voyages and travels, Historiography, Écrits de voyageurs anglais, Histoire et critique, Prose anglaise, Écrits de voyageurs américains, Prose américaine, Voyages, Histoire, Historiographie, Voyage dans la littérature, Voyage, Art d'écrire, Englisch, Reiseliteratur, Schrijvers, Reizen, ReisverhalenTimes
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Tourists with typewriters: critical reflections on contemporary travel writing
1998, University of Michigan Press
in English
0472109731 9780472109739
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-254) and index.
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