Alasdair Pettinger is an independent scholar based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has published on travel literature, the cultures of slavery and abolitionism, and representations of Haiti. His books include the anthology Always Elsewhere (1998) and Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846 (2018).

Tim Youngs is Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University. His books include The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (edited with Peter Hulme, 2002), The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing (2013) and The Cambridge History of Travel Writing (edited with Nandini Das, 2019).

Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves, offering a comprehensive and authoritative reflection of the state of travel writing criticism.

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction / Alasdair Pettinger and Tim Youngs

Part One: Framing Travel

1. The Scientific Traveller / Angela Byrne
2. Nature Writing / Paul Smethurst
3. Migrant Narratives / Aedín Ní Loingsigh
4. The Expatriate Life / Lynn Mastellotto
5. Travelling in Pairs / Kathryn N. Jones
6. Footsteps / Maria Lindgren Leavenworth
7. Vertical Travel / Charles Forsdick

Part Two: Modes of Writing

1. Letters / Eve Tavor Bannet
2. Diaries and Journals / Christina Laffin
3. Guidance and Advice / Alasdair Pettinger
4. Narrative / John Culbert
5. Description / Benjamin Colbert
6. Lectures / Tom F. Wright

Part Three: Sensuous Geographies

1. Seeing / Margaret Topping
2. Hearing / Tim Youngs
3. Touching / Sarah Jackson
4. Tasting / Heidi Oberholtzer Lee
5. Smelling / Clare Brant

Part Four: Interactions

1. Hospitality / Kevin J. James
2. Foreign Exchange / David Murray
3. Between Languages / Michael Cronin
4. Animals / Elizabeth Leane

Part Five: Paratexts

1. Editorial Matters / Michael G. Brennan
2. Maps / James R. Akerman
3. Book and Print Technology / Innes Keighren

Works Cited

Index