Maria Pia Di Bella is a senior research scholar at IRIS-EHESS, Paris and Research Affiliate at the Harvard Divinity School. She is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing.

“Because the essays represent a variety of disciplines—among them literature, history, and anthropology—the book offers a refreshing view of the field as a whole…Highlights include Wendy Bracewell’s insightful take on masculinity and the Balkans (via work ranging from Sara Mills's to Moma Dimić's) and Keith Newlin’s unvarnished examination of Jack and Charmian London’s insular journey to Melanesia. This engaging and useful text should invigorate both new and seasoned scholars of the genre….Recommended” • Choice

• IntroductionMaria Pia Di Bella and Brian YothersPart I: Memory and TraumaChapter 1. Walking Memory: Berlin’s ‘Holocaust Trail’Maria Pia Di BellaChapter 2. Touring the African DiasporaCheryl FinleyChapter 3. A Wartime Cinematic: Recreation of the Journey Linking China and Japan in the Modern EraJoshua A. FogelPart II: Visualizing OthernessChapter 4. Seeing a Difference: Spectacles of Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Illustrated Travel BooksJulia ThomasChapter 5. A Beginning, Two Ends, and a Thickened Middle Journeys in Afghanistan from Byron to HosseiniGraham HugganChapter 6. New Men, Old Europe: Being a Man in Balkan Travel WritingWendy BracewellChapter 7. Among Cannibals and Headhunters: Jack London in MelanesiaKeith NewlinPart III: Creating and Recovering PerspectiveChapter 8. Forgetting London: Paris, Cultural Cartography, and Late Victorian DecadenceAlex MurrayChapter 9. In The Eyes of Some Britons: Aleppo, an Enlightenment CityMohammad SakhniniChapter 10. An Ordinary PlaceRobert ClarkeChapter 11. The Right Sort of Woman: British Women Travel Writers and SportsPrecious McKenzie StearnsConclusionPramod Nayar