This volume traces the history of travel writing in several national and linguistic traditions from antiquity to the Internet age.

Introduction Nandini Das and Tim Youngs; Part I. Travel Writing by Period: 1. Travel writing and the ancient world Jonathan S. Burgess; 2. Medieval travel writing (I): Peregrinato and religious travel writing Mary Baine Campbell; 3. Medieval travel writing (II): beyond the Pilgrimage Sharon Kinoshita; 4. Early modern travel writing (I): print and early modern European travel writing Gerald MacLean; 5. Early modern travel writing (II): English travel writing Nandini Das; 6. Eighteenth-century travel writing Nigel Leask; 7. Nineteenth-century travel writing Carl Thompson; 8. Travel writing after 1900 Tim Youngs; Part II. Travel Writing in a Global Context: 9. Arabic travel writing Daniel Newman; 10. Indian travel writing Supriya Chaudhuri; 11. Chinese travel writing Xiaofei Tian; 12. Travel writing from Eastern Europe Alex Drace-Francis; 13. Italian travel writing Nathalie C. Hester; 14. Hispanic travel writing Claire Lindsay; 15. Travel writing in French Charles Forsdick; 16. North American travel writing Wendy Martin; 17. Australian travel writing Anna Johnston; 18. African travel writing Rebecca Jones; Part III. Perspectives on Travel Writing: Section 1. Place and Travel Writing: 19. Travel and the city Victoria E. Thompson; 20. Travel and the desert Roslynn Haynes; 21. Travel writing and rivers Robert Burroughs; 22. Travel and mountains Amrita Dhar; 23. Polar travel Elizabeth Leane; 24. Travelling in wilderness Debbie Lee; Section 2. Forms: 25. Advice on the art of travel Daniel Carey; 26. Travelogues, diaries, letters Zoë Kinsley; 27. Travel writing and cartography Jordana Dym; 28. Travel and poetry Christopher M. Keirstead; 29. Visual images in travel writing Stephanie Leitch; 30. Travel and fiction Janicke Stensvaag Kaasa; 31. Scientific travel Michael F. Robinson; 32. Travel in the digital age Paul Longley Arthur and Tom van Nuenen; Section 3. Approaching Travel Writing: 33. Gender and travel writing Robert Aldrich; 34. Ecocriticism and travel Kylie Crane; 35. Translation and travel writing Susan Bassnett; 36. Travel writing and tourism Agnieszka Sobocinska and Richard White.