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Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team of leading internationa...

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Main Authors Duncan, James, Gregory, Derek
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Routledge 31.01.2002
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
Environmental Geography
History
Social Geography
Travel in literature
Travel writing
Panchen Lama
Captain Singleton
Vice Versa
Royal Geographical Society
Travel Writing
Tv Version
Neil Miller
British Women
Imaginative Geographies
Timeless
Young Men
British Women Diarists
Murray’s Handbook
Sexual Geography
Nuwara Eliya
Teshoo Lama
Barren
Imperial Crisis
Sotadic Zone
Late Twentieth Century Postmodernism
Imperial Subjectivity
Kandyan Highlands
Tibetan Religion
Travel Narratives
British Women Travelling
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Summary:Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team of leading internationa contributors focus primarily upon travelers from the 18th and 19th Centuries to pin down the imaginary within the context of imperial power. The contributors focus on travel to three main regions: Africa, South Asia, and Europe - wit the European examples being drawn from Britain, France and Greece.
ISBN:9780415160131
0415160146
9780415160148
0415160138
DOI:10.4324/9780203054543