Travel Writing 1700-1830

• The first comprehensive anthology of writing covering travel in Britain, Europe and Asia Minor, Africa, the Caribbean, North America and the Pacific in the 'long eighteenth century' (1680s-1830s).
• The anthology features writing by famous authors such as Daniel Defoe, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Wollstonecraft as well as lesser known and obscure ones; famous voyages and expeditions (by Captain Cook, Mungo Park), and lesser known ones.
• A wide variety of different kinds of travellers and travel-writing is represented: natural historians, tourists, explorers, slaves (Olaudah Equiano), and a good representation of women travellers.
• A lively introduction by Elizabeth Bohls surveys the contexts of early modern travel writing, and informative headnotes cover the different geographical regions, periods, genres and individual authors.
• Texts are taken from the earliest published versions, modernized where necessary.

Readership: Students and readers of travel writing, eighteenth-century literature, the history of travel and exploration, the British Empire, the slave trade, colonialism

Edited by Elizabeth A. Bohls, Associate Professor of English, University of Oregon, and Ian Duncan, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

Europe and Asia Minor
The British Isles
Africa
The Caribbean
North America
Australia and the Pacific