John Thieme is Senior Fellow at the University of East Anglia, UK. He previously held Chairs at the University of Hull and London South Bank University, and has also taught at the Universities of Guyana and North London. His books include Post-Colonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon, Post-Colonial Studies: The Essential Glossary and monographs on Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul and R.K. Narayan.

• Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction: Exploring Space, Excavating Place.- 2. Postcolonial Mappae Mundi.- 3. After the Bounty: Botany and Botanical Tropes.- 4. ‘Lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon’: Romantic Spice, Postcolonial Spice.- 5. Inheriting the Earth: Postcolonial Ecologies.- 6. Paper Tigers and Other Therianthropes.- 7. Urban Chronotopes: London and Bombay.- 8.Travelling Places: A Coda.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-

John Thieme is Senior Fellow at the University of East Anglia, UK. He previously held Chairs at the University of Hull and London South Bank University, and has also taught at the Universities of Guyana and North London. His books include Post-Colonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon, Post-Colonial Studies: The Essential Glossary and monographs on Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul and R.K. Narayan.

• Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction: Exploring Space, Excavating Place.- 2. Postcolonial Mappae Mundi.- 3. After the Bounty: Botany and Botanical Tropes.- 4. ‘Lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon’: Romantic Spice, Postcolonial Spice.- 5. Inheriting the Earth: Postcolonial Ecologies.- 6. Paper Tigers and Other Therianthropes.- 7. Urban Chronotopes: London and Bombay.- 8.Travelling Places: A Coda.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-

John Thieme is Senior Fellow at the University of East Anglia, UK. He previously held Chairs at the University of Hull and London South Bank University, and has also taught at the Universities of Guyana and North London. His books include Post-Colonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon, Post-Colonial Studies: The Essential Glossary and monographs on Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul and R.K. Narayan.

• Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction: Exploring Space, Excavating Place.- 2. Postcolonial Mappae Mundi.- 3. After the Bounty: Botany and Botanical Tropes.- 4. ‘Lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon’: Romantic Spice, Postcolonial Spice.- 5. Inheriting the Earth: Postcolonial Ecologies.- 6. Paper Tigers and Other Therianthropes.- 7. Urban Chronotopes: London and Bombay.- 8.Travelling Places: A Coda.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-