The Author: Carol E. Leon is Associate Professor of English at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. She received her Ph.D. in travel literature from the Australian National University. Her fields of research are contemporary and eighteenth-century travel writings. She has published several articles and chapters and delivered papers on V. S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, and D. H. Lawrence.

The Author: Carol E. Leon is Associate Professor of English at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. She received her Ph.D. in travel literature from the Australian National University. Her fields of research are contemporary and eighteenth-century travel writings. She has published several articles and chapters and delivered papers on V. S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, and D. H. Lawrence.