Modern Travel in World History uses three themes–technology, mass movements and travelers–to examine the history of the modern world from the fifteenth-cent
This book features some of the greatest travellers in human history – people who undertook long journeys to places they knew little or nothing about. From Rom
This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel, mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel - whether real or imagined - in th
This two-volume set documents the essential role of the sea and maritime activity across history, from travel and food production to commerce and conquest. In a
Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early