Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing

by Tabish Khair and tabish-khair

Book Overview

". . . brings new insights into the colonial relationship while challenging the unspoken temptation that this was a distinctly European period." --Simon Gikandi

Other Routes collects important primary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in English translation. An introduction by Tabish Khair discusses travel literature as a genre, the perception of travel and writing about travel as a European privilege, and the emergence of new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253218217
• ISBN13: 9780253218216
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher