An increasingly popular genre - addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics - travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown. In this volume, Carl Thompson:introduces the genre, outlining competing definitions and key debates provides a broad historical survey from the medieval period to the present dayexplores the autobiographical dimensions of the formlooks at both men and women's travel writing, surveying ...

Tristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology, transforming Western notions of 'primitive' man. Tristes Tropiques is a major work of art as well as of scholarship.

It is a memoir of exquisite bea...

Embark on a boundary-pushing expedition that ignites your passion and carries you to the heart of the world’s most impressive volcanoes: the Volcanic Seven Summits. This challenge is for the determined adventurer who does not shy away from fire, ice, or unknown terrain. Travel across all continents and conquer their mighty volcanic peaks.

From the icy Mount Sidley in Antarctica to the fiery crater of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the thin air of Ojos del Salado in Chile, the mysterious Papua, th...