| Description |
1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Travel Writing Ser |
|
Routledge Research in Travel Writing Ser
|
| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Arabia, the land of legend -- The margins of Western desert travel in Arabia -- Locating Arabia -- Arabia as a country of the mind -- The Lawrence and Thesiger legacy -- Mapping the chapters -- Notes -- Chapter 1: In literary footsteps: The prevalence of "second journeys" -- A tradition of intertextuality -- Learning from the past -- Blackmore in the footsteps of Lawrence |
|
Writing about the present -- Kirkby and Hayes in the footsteps of Thesiger -- Opportunities for the future -- Evans in the footsteps of Thomas -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Desert and sown: The narration of progress and modernity -- Desert but not deserted -- Asher's modern Bedu -- The desert mechanised -- Toy's travels by Land Rover -- The desert politicised -- Morris and a sultan's pageant -- The desert urbanised -- Raban and a camel-free account -- The desert historicised -- Mackintosh-Smith's inverse archaeology -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Gendering the desert: Women and desert narratives |
|
Where are the women? Western women's travels in Arabia -- "Pay, pack and follow" -- Women as desert writers -- The siren trope -- The "veiled best-seller" -- Desert as an inconstant space -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Wonderment and wilderness: Desert science writing -- Delighting in sand grouse -- George and the neo-sublime -- Walker and Pittaway in amateur pursuits -- Winser in search of solutions -- Staging the desert for Western audiences -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Desert as shared space -- Post-tourism and the accelerated sublime -- The modern secular pilgrimage |
|
Democratisation of the desert experience -- Notes -- Conclusion: Barren legacy? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781000807578 |
|
1000807576 |
|
