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This volume explores the relationship between tourism and travel texts and contemporary society, and how each is shaped by the other. A multimodal analysis is used to consider a variety of texts including novels, brochures, blogs, websites, radio commercials, videos, postcards and authentic tourist pictures and their meaning-making dynamics within the tourism discourse. The book looks at the ways in which these different texts have influenced how tourists and travellers have been viewed over time and how we envision ourselves as tourists or travellers. It puts forward multimodal analysis as the best framework for exploring the semiotic potential of these texts. Including examples from the UK, Malta, Canada, New Zealand, India, Jamaica and South Africa, this volume will be useful for researchers and students in tourism studies, communication and media studies and applied linguistics.

Tourism --- Travel writing. --- Travel --- Authorship --- Social aspects. --- Travel writing --- Social aspects --- discourse. --- meaning-making. --- multimodal analysis. --- postcards. --- tourism and society. --- tourist brochures. --- tourist identity.

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"This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the United States. In later years he travelled widely across Europe and North America, meeting some of the best known writers of the twentieth century, including H.G. Wells and Ernest Hemingway. Graham also wrote numerous novels and biographies that won him a wide readership on both sides of the Atlantic. This book traces Graham's career as a world traveller, and provides a rich portrait of English, Russian and American literary life in the first half of the twentieth century. It also examines how many aspects of his life and writing coincide with contemporary concerns, including the development of New Age spirituality and the rise of environmental awareness. Beyond Holy Russia is based on extensive research in archives of private papers in Britain and the USA and on the many works of Graham himself. The author describes with admirable tact and clarity Graham's heterodox and convoluted spiritual quest. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who was for many years a significant literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic."--Publisher's website.

English literature --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Graham, Stephen, --- Russia --- Description and travel. --- written literature --- travel writing

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With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how various Islamic and eastern cultural threads weaved themselves, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been labeled the 'Renaissance'. Scholars from across humanities disciplines examine Islamic, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and English works from a truly comparative and non-parochial perspective, to explore the transfer through travel of cultural and religious values and artistic and scientific practices, from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries.

Non-fiction --- Sociology of literature --- History of civilization --- anno 1000-1099 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Travel writing --- Travel, Medieval --- Culture diffusion --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Culture --- Social change --- Civilization, Medieval --- Travel --- Authorship --- History --- E-books --- Travelers' writings --- History and criticism. --- Eastern travels. --- Muslim-Christian encounters. --- cultural exchange. --- early modern. --- medieval. --- mercantile exchanges. --- renaissance. --- travel writing.

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This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It offers a range of valuable insights into continuities and changes in Australian regional perspectives, showing that ordinary Australians were more closely connected to the Pacific Islands than has previously been acknowledged. Addressing the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, this cultural history probes issues of nation and empire, race and science, commerce and tourism by focusing on significant episodes and encounters in history. This is a foundational text for future studies of Australia's relations with the Pacific, and histories of travel generally.

Travelers' writings, Australian --- History and criticism. --- Australian travelers' writings --- Australian literature --- travel writing --- Pacific Islands --- Tourism --- travel --- Australian history --- Islands of the Pacific --- Description and travel. --- Pacific Ocean Islands

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This text explores the experiences and contributions of British women performing active service across the Eastern Front in Serbia, Russia, and Romania during the First World War, focusing on representation of that experience though a range of written records.

Women. --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Women --- World War (1914-1918) --- 1914-1918 --- World War I Period --- Great Britain. --- E-books --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Social and moral questions --- British Culture. --- Imperialism. --- Life writing/travel writing. --- War. --- Women’s/Gender history. --- literature.