The books that we read, whether travel-focused or not, may influence the way in which we understand the process or experience of travel. This multidisciplinary work provides a critical analysis of the inspirational and transformational role that books play in travel imaginings. Does reading a book encourage us to think of travel as exotic, adventurous, transformative, dangerous or educative? Do different genres of books influence a reader’s view of travel in multifarious ways? These questions are explored through a literary analysis of an eclectic selection of books spanning the period from the eighteenth century to the present day. Genres covered include historical fiction, children’s books, westerns, science-fiction and crime fiction.
Tabella dei contenuti
Chapter 1 – Introduction: Extraordinary Journeys
Chapter 2 – The Gift Shop at 221B Baker Street
Chapter 3 – A Misspent Youth (Children’s Fiction and Travel)
Chapter 4 – Murder They Wrote
Chapter 5 – The Past is a Foreign Country
Chapter 6 – No Country for Old Men
Chapter 7 – Once Upon a Time in the West
Chapter 8 – The Explorer’s Quest
Chapter 9 – Re-enacting the Past
Chapter 10 – Fantastic Journeys
Chapter 11 – Transformations
Chapter 12 – They All Lived Happily Ever After
Chapter 13 – Conclusion
Circa l’autore
Warwick Frost is Professor of Tourism, Heritage and the Media at La Trobe University, Australia. His research interests include heritage tourism, tourism and the media, events and environmental history. With Associate Professor Jennifer Frost, he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Heritage Tourism. He is the author or editor of 16 books. His most recent are, Jennifer Frost and Warwick Frost, Medieval Imaginaries in Contemporary Media, Heritage and Tourism (Routledge, 2022) and Warwick Frost, An Environmental History of Australian Rainforests until 1939: Fire, Rain, Settlers and Conservation (Routledge, 2021).
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