This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration and exploitation of other lands and peoples.

The first volume of the collection, 'Travellers and Tourists,' opens with a robust introduction outlining the scholarly literature on the tradition of British travel writers reflecting back on 'life back in Britain,' . contributes a unique perspective to understand the relationship between travel and British identity, delivered with insightful arguments and supported with rigorous primary research. Collectively, the chapters build on a growing literature that examines European travel or tourism as more than benign acts of observation or discovery. (Steve Marti, H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences, h-net.org, August, 2016)

Autorentext
Stephanie Barczewski, Professor, Clemson University, USA Joe De Sapio, University of Guelph, Canada Andrew Elliott, Assistant Professor, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, Japan Peter Lyth, teaching fellow, Nottingham University Business School, UK Catherine MacKenzie, Concordia University, Canada Tom Neuhaus, University of Derby, UK Maria Clara Paulino, Assistant Professor, Winthrop University, USA Kenneth J. Perkins, Emeritus Professor, University of South Carolina, USA Jill Steward, Visiting Fellow, Newcastle University, UK John K. Walton, Ikerbrasque Research Professor, University of the Basque Country, Spain Richard White, Associate Professor, University of Sydney, Australia

Inhalt
Introduction; Martin Farr and Xavier Guégan PART I: CLASSES OF TRAVEL 1. British Tourists and the Beaches of Europe, from the Eighteenth Century to the 1960s; John Walton 2. Is Britishness always British? Country Houses, Travel and the Cosmopolitan identity of the British Elite in the Eighteenth Century; Stephanie Barczewski 3. Technology, Imperial Connections, and Royal Tourism on the Prince of Wales' 1875 Visit to India; Joe De Sapio PART II: EUROPE 4. 'On the Continong': Britons Abroad and the 'business of travel': 1820-1914; Jill Steward 5. The 'Alien' European: British Accounts of Portugal and the Portuguese, 1780-1850; Maria Clara Paulino 6. The Lacunae of Heliosis: Package Holidays and the Long 1970s; Martin Farr PART III: THE EMPIRE 7. British Travellers and the Invisibility of Australia's Past 1868-1910; Richard White 8. Securing Shanghai: British Women Artists and 'Their' City; Catherine MacKenzie 9. Carry On up the Nile: the Tourist Gaze and the British Experience of Egypt,1818-1932; Peter Lyth PART IV: ...AND BEYOND 10. British Travel Writing and the Japanese Interior, 1854-99 ; Andrew Elliott 11. So Near and yet so Far: British Tourism in Algiers, 1860-1914; Kenneth J. Perkins 12. Lost Horizons: British Travellers to Tibet and the Himalayas in the Twentieth Century; Tom Neuhaus Index