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New Zealand Through the Eyes of American Women
New Zealand appeared relatively late on the general tourist map of the 19th century. Famous for its exotic flora and fauna, a visible native population, and women's suffrage, it also drew American tourists to its shores. How did American travelers perceive New Zealand and its society? Very few travel accounts by American women were published in this period, but these historical documents offer subjective accounts of the author's time and present individual experiences and views on New Zealand.
Transcultural Modernities
The swelling flows of migration from Africa towards Europe have aroused interest not only in the socio-political consequences of the migrants' insistent appeals to 'fortress Europe' but also in the artistic integration of African migrants into the cultural world of Europe. While in recent years the creative output of Africans living in Europe has received attention from the media and in academia, little critical consideration has been given to African migrants' modes of narration and the manner in which these modes give expression to, or are an expression of, their creators' transcultural realities. Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe responds to this need for reflection by...
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The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History
The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History offers a critical survey of the development of the field that unites historical scholarship along thematic lines and uses examples from diverse places to examine a wide set of tourism policies, practices, and niches in a global, transnational context.
Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain
Samuel Butler, Victorian against the Grain is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that provides a critical overview of Butler's career, one which places his multifaceted body of work within the cultural framework of the Victorian age.
Viajeras por los Mares del Sur
A bordo de veleros en peligrosas travesías, sorteando el Cabo de Hornos atadas al mástil de la embarcación, circunvalando el planeta antes de la apertura del Canal de Suez, padeciendo enfermedades y hambre, pero con el ánimo intacto, las viajeras del pasado nos demuestran que no hay límites cuando lo que uno se propone es viajar. Pilar Tejera, autora de varios libros dedicados a las trotamundos victorianas, desvela nuevas y sorprendentes aventuras en su último libro: Viajeras por los Mares del Sur. En palabras suyas, "Detrás del mito de la Bounty, del Capitán Cook, de Herman Melville o de la paradisiaca experiencia de Gauguin en Tahití, un puñado de aventureras vivieron sus mayores...
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