An increasingly popular genre - addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics - travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown. In this volume, Carl Thompson:introduces the genre, outlining competing definitions and key debates provides a broad historical survey from the medieval period to the present dayexplores the autobiographical dimensions of the formlooks at both men and women's travel writing, surveying ...

Het jaar 2014. Honderd jaar eerder begon "De Grote Oorlog". Dat gaf mij aanleiding om met zekere regelmaar honderd jaar terug te blikken en naar mogelijke overeenkomsten zoeken met het eeuwlatere jaar 2014.

Rond de 28e juni 2014, toen in 1914 in Sarajevo het schot gelost werd waarmee De Grote Oorlog begon, schrijf ik over "...de papieren kogel.." waarmee "straks" de wereld in brand gaat, hetgeen acht jaar later zichtbaar werd.

Na het teruglezen, ruim 10 jaar later ben ik verbijsterd dat, waar...

Tristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology, transforming Western notions of 'primitive' man. Tristes Tropiques is a major work of art as well as of scholarship.

It is a memoir of exquisite bea...