Benjamin Bollig is a Professor of Spanish American Literature at the University of Oxford.

‘In his observations of ordinary people pursuing their daily bread, [Aliaga] cannot shake off a sense of timeless and universal human trauma... this volume will also be of interest to researchers engaged in work on contemporary poetic forms—and indeed short prose forms—and how they integrate with the tradition of the travelogue.’ Iona Macintyre, Modern Language Review

• IntroductionThanks and AcknowledgmentsPart One.Unknown Music for Journeys: North and South American TravelsPoemsPart Two.The Foreign Passion (Revised and Expanded): European and African TravelsPoemsTranslator’s NotesIndex of Place Names

Benjamin Bollig is a Professor of Spanish American Literature at the University of Oxford.

‘In his observations of ordinary people pursuing their daily bread, [Aliaga] cannot shake off a sense of timeless and universal human trauma... this volume will also be of interest to researchers engaged in work on contemporary poetic forms—and indeed short prose forms—and how they integrate with the tradition of the travelogue.’ Iona Macintyre, Modern Language Review

• IntroductionThanks and AcknowledgmentsPart One.Unknown Music for Journeys: North and South American TravelsPoemsPart Two.The Foreign Passion (Revised and Expanded): European and African TravelsPoemsTranslator’s NotesIndex of Place Names