Travel, Text, Empire : Colonial and Post

The essays gathered in In Transit focus on issues arising from the historical nexus between travel and imperialism. Contributors investigate the ways in which specific imperial projects were inextricably linked to developments in travel technolog

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Scotland 1800: A Tourist's Matrimonial Guide	p. 21
"Making 'the agreeable' to the big wigs": Lady Nugent's Grand Tour of Duty in Jamaica, 1801-1805	p. 45
"Tahiti, 'the desire of our eyes'": Missionary Travel Narratives and Imperial Surveillance	p. 65
Imperial Traveler, Colonial Observer: Humanity and Difference in Five Years in Kaffirland	p. 85
Anxieties of Imperial Decay: Three Journeys in India	p. 103
Pleasant Companions: Nineteenth-century Travel Writing and the Head-hunters of Borneo	p. 125
Australia's Sublime Desert: John McDouall Stuart and Bruce Chatwin	p. 149
Femininity, Modernity, and Colonial Discourse	p. 173
Frank Hurley's Pearls and Savages: Travel, Representation, and Colonial Governance	p. 191
Prime Directives: Travel in Star Trek and the South Seas Tale	p. 219
Instant Infamy: A Short History of Broometime	p. 235
Belated Travel: Ecotourism as a Style of Travel Performance	p. 255
Notes on Contributors	p. 275
Index	p. 279
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