Abstract
... brings new insights into the colonial relationship while challenging the unspoken temptation that this was a distinctly European period. Simon GikandiOther Routes collects important primary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in English translation. An introduction by Tabish Khair discusses travel literature as a genre, the perception of travel and writing about travel as a European privilege, and the emergence of new writings that show that travel has been a human occupation that crosses time and culture. This original and significant book will interest armchair travelers and others in views of people and places away from the European traveler s gaze.Selections include The Travels of a Japanese Monk (c. 838), Al-Abdari, the Disgruntled Traveller (c. 1290), Korean Official s Account of China (1488), The Poetry of Basho s Road (1689), Malabari: A Love-Hate Affair with the British (1890).
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