Tourists with typewriters
Subtitle: critical reflections on contemporary travel writing
By: Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan.
Contributors: Huggan, Graham, 1958-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism; English prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism; Travel writing -- History -- 20th century; Travel in literature
Description: As the first extensive survey of contemporary travel writing, Tourists with Typewriters offers a series of challenging and provocative critical insights into a wide range of travel narratives written in English after the Second World War. The book focuses in particular on contemporary travel writers such as Jan Morris, Peter Matthiessen, V. S. Naipaul, Barry Lopez, Mary Morris, Paul Theroux, Peter Mayle, and the late Bruce Chatwin.

It examines some of the reasons for travel writing's enduring popularity and for its particular appeal to present-day readers, many of them also travelers. The book will appeal to general readers interested in a closer examination of travel writing and to academic readers in disciplines such as literary/cultural studies, geography, history, anthropology, and tourism studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-254) and index.