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Banned Books and Counterfeit Notes
£110.00 / $110.00Reading and Writing Against the Penal Colony in French Guiana
Sophie Fuggle
Hardback
9781839992599
February 2025
Forthcoming
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Strongman Eugen Sandow’s World Tour of 1904-1905
The ‘Perfect Man’ in Colonial India and Afro-Asia
Carey Watt
Strongman Eugen Sandow (1867–1925) was renowned as the world’s “perfect man” at the turn of the 20thcentury. This book examines his fascinating 2-year “world tour” of South Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and China in 1904–1905, at the peak of European imperialism and rising Asian confidence and nationalism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990670
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Strongman Eugen Sandow (1867–1925) was renowned as the world’s “perfect man” at the turn of the 20thcentury. This book examines his fascinating 2-year “world tour” of South Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and China in 1904–1905, at the peak of European imperialism and rising Asian confidence and nationalism.
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British Encounters with Syrian-Mesopotamian Overland Routes to India, 1751-1795
Rethinking Enlightenment Improvement
Mohammad Sakhnini
The book examines the relationship between the Enlightenment idea of improvement and eighteenth-century travel writings about Middle Eastern overland routes to India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279362
March 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00The book examines the relationship between the Enlightenment idea of improvement and eighteenth-century travel writings about Middle Eastern overland routes to India.
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Microtravel
Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection
Edited by Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley, Kate Walchester
This volume explores and historicizes the phenomenon of ‘microtravel’, a term coined to designate slower journeys within a limited radius which allow, and sometimes necessitate, new forms of experiencing the world. The chapters study travelogues that recalibrate the scale of journeying, with travellers slowing down their journeys and readjusting their relationship to the proximate and nearby.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986581
April 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This volume explores and historicizes the phenomenon of ‘microtravel’, a term coined to designate slower journeys within a limited radius which allow, and sometimes necessitate, new forms of experiencing the world. The chapters study travelogues that recalibrate the scale of journeying, with travellers slowing down their journeys and readjusting their relationship to the proximate and nearby.
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Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History
Mary Orr
This first book-length appraisal of the pioneering perspectives of Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) on natural history in the first half of the nineteenth century pivotally highlights the intercultural, interdisciplinary and multi-genre reach of her work. The fact that she undertook it independently and transnationally over three decadeschallenges approaches to women, gender and national nineteenth-century scientific endeavour that have defined women at work in the period by their secondary roles (to more famous men in science) that also delimit their contributions and discoveries(as domestic). By focusing on how Sarah undertook her science despite the many bars to women in its fields, this study also promotes one woman’s blueprint for non-conformist independent work and, in consequence, an alternative paradigm for the ‘leaky pipeline’ model still informing women’s careers in STEM(M) today.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986093
March 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This first book-length appraisal of the pioneering perspectives of Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) on natural history in the first half of the nineteenth century pivotally highlights the intercultural, interdisciplinary and multi-genre reach of her work. The fact that she undertook it independently and transnationally over three decadeschallenges approaches to women, gender and national nineteenth-century scientific endeavour that have defined women at work in the period by their secondary roles (to more famous men in science) that also delimit their contributions and discoveries(as domestic). By focusing on how Sarah undertook her science despite the many bars to women in its fields, this study also promotes one woman’s blueprint for non-conformist independent work and, in consequence, an alternative paradigm for the ‘leaky pipeline’ model still informing women’s careers in STEM(M) today.
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May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate
Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century
Julia Dabbs
May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the travel writings by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Her critical commentary on social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century, such as gender and class discrimination, still resonate today.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278648
March 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the travel writings by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Her critical commentary on social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century, such as gender and class discrimination, still resonate today.
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Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters: Volume 3 – Letters from Germany
Edited by Ben P. Robertson, Ekaterina V. Kobeleva
Nikolai GretschNikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980879
September 2021
Active
£140.00 / $140.00Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine
Edited by Gary Fisher, David Robinson
foreword by M. Randal OwainTravel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’ by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278044
September 2021
Active
£125.00 / $125.00Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’ by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place.
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Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters: Volume 1 – Letters from England
Edited by Ben P. Robertson, Ekaterina V. Kobeleva
Nikolai GretschNikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980817
August 2021
Active
£140.00 / $140.00Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
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Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters: Volume 2 – Letters from France
Edited by Ben P. Robertson, Ekaterina V. Kobeleva
Nikolai GretschNikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980848
August 2021
Active
£140.00 / $140.00Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837. Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a treasure-trove of cultural information about contemporary daily life.
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Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970
A Semiology and Sociocultural History
David Scott
Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920–1970 offers an original insight into the structure of travel advertisements and the way recurrent motifs adapt to changing times and functions. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive image/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colour, the images constituting an essential part of the overall argument.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276286
January 2021
Active
£125.00 / $125.00Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920–1970 offers an original insight into the structure of travel advertisements and the way recurrent motifs adapt to changing times and functions. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive image/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colour, the images constituting an essential part of the overall argument.
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Charles de Foucauld’s Reconnaissance au Maroc, 1883–1884
A Critical Edition in English
Rosemary A. Peters-Hill
Reconnaissance au Maroc is Charles de Foucauld’s adventurous memoir of exploring Morocco. For eleven months in 1883–84, Foucauld travelled incognito through a country then off-limits to Europeans, mapping its waterways. This book is a translation of Foucauld’s memoir into English, with an extensive introduction and notes that contextualize the work within Francophone post-colonial studies.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274091
September 2020
Active
£195.00 / $195.00Reconnaissance au Maroc is Charles de Foucauld’s adventurous memoir of exploring Morocco. For eleven months in 1883–84, Foucauld travelled incognito through a country then off-limits to Europeans, mapping its waterways. This book is a translation of Foucauld’s memoir into English, with an extensive introduction and notes that contextualize the work within Francophone post-colonial studies.
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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies
A Critical Glossary
Edited by Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley, Kathryn Walchester
‘Keywords for Travel Writing Studies’ draws on the concept of the ‘keyword’ as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text, ‘Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society’, in order to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form with cross-disciplinary implications.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089222
April 2019
Active
£195.00 / $195.00‘Keywords for Travel Writing Studies’ draws on the concept of the ‘keyword’ as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text, ‘Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society’, in order to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form with cross-disciplinary implications.
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The Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington
The Most Gorgeous Lady on the Tour
Aneta Lipska
This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) and offers the first detailed analysis of her four travel books.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086788
June 2017
Active
£115.00 / $115.00This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) and offers the first detailed analysis of her four travel books.
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Alternative Modernities in French Travel Writing
Engaging Urban Space in London and New York, 1851–1986
Gillian Jein
Examining the aesthetics and politics at stake in urban travel writing as spatial practice, this book explores French travellers’ representations of London and New York from 1851 to the 1980s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085125
June 2016
Active
£115.00 / $115.00Examining the aesthetics and politics at stake in urban travel writing as spatial practice, this book explores French travellers’ representations of London and New York from 1851 to the 1980s.
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Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway
Kathryn Walchester
‘Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway’ explores the surprising significance of Norway in the writing of British women during the nineteenth century, the country offering a place of freedom and possibility beyond Victorian Britain.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783083657
December 2014
Active
£115.00 / $115.00‘Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway’ explores the surprising significance of Norway in the writing of British women during the nineteenth century, the country offering a place of freedom and possibility beyond Victorian Britain.
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Interpersonal Encounters in Contemporary Travel Writing
French and Italian Perspectives
Catharine Mee
A critical study on the theme of interpersonal encounter in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century French and Italian travel writing.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783080373
March 2014
Active
£115.00 / $115.00A critical study on the theme of interpersonal encounter in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century French and Italian travel writing.
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Photography, Early Cinema and Colonial Modernity
Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments
Robert Dixon
This volume is an account of the stage and screen practice of Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley, in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287953
January 2012
Active
£115.00 / $115.00This volume is an account of the stage and screen practice of Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley, in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.
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The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941
Edited by Robert Dixon, Christopher Lee
This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences during the First and Second World Wars.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287748
April 2011
Active
£115.00 / $115.00This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences during the First and Second World Wars.
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Virtual Voyages
Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837
Dr. Paul Longley Arthur
'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318002
March 2010
Active
£115.00 / $115.00‘Virtual Voyages’ is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive ‘great south land’ told through the literature of ‘imaginary voyages’.
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Creating Irish Tourism
The First Century, 1750-1850
William H. A. Williams
Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, 'Creating Irish Tourism' charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country's emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318446
March 2010
Active
£115.00 / $115.00Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, ‘Creating Irish Tourism’ charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country’s emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later.
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Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger
An Anthology
Edited by Geoffrey P. Nash
An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843317920
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.
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America Magica
When Renaissance Europe Thought it had Conquered Paradise
Jean-Marc De Beer, Jorge Magasich-Airola
foreword by David AbulafiaAn enthralling account of the conflicting experiences of discovering the New World, drawing upon the intriguing tales of early discovery and amazing illustrations of the day.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781843312925
July 2007
Active
£22.95 / $22.95An enthralling account of the conflicting experiences of discovering the New World, drawing upon the intriguing tales of early discovery and amazing illustrations of the day.
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Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century
Filling the Blank Spaces
Edited by Tim Youngs
An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and cultural dynamics of travel literature in the nineteenth century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843312185
September 2006
Active
£115.00 / $115.00An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and cultural dynamics of travel literature in the nineteenth century.