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Constelaciones visuales es una investigación monográfica sobre la producción visual de los viajeros extranjeros que visitaron Colombia durante el siglo XIX. A pesar de algunas investigaciones, aún no existe en la historiografía nacional una publicación panorámica sobre la valiosa obra visual de los viajeros, su significado en algunas narrativas sobre el pasado y sus repercusiones en el presente del país. Este libro examina cientos de imágenes y textos de distintos viajeros, como Edward Mark, Henry Price, José María Gutiérrez de Alba, François Desiré Roulin, Auguste Le Moyne, Frederic Church, Charles Empson y Albert Berg. Esta obra está divida en dos secciones: en la primera se analizan diversos retratos de viajeros, campesinos, indios y afrocolombianos, en un intento por pensar la figura del viajero y sus mitologías heroicas y coloniales, y las imágenes del otro, asociadas a su propia alteridad y a la construcción histórica, política y ética de su representación. La segunda está dedicada a las políticas de la mirada del viajero y sus recursos filosóficos, históricos, estéticos y económicos que se vinculan con diversos lugares como el río Magdalena, el salto del Tequendama y la cordillera de los Andes.

Historiografía. --- Travelers --- Travel writing --- Viajeros --- Viajes --- Relatos personales. --- Colombia --- Descripciones y viajes

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This volume offers a fresh and timely 'European' perspective on Wales and Welshness. Uncovering rare travel texts in French and German from 1780 to now it provides a valuable case-study of a culture that is often minoritised, and demonstrates the value of multilingual research and a transnational approach.

Travelers' writings, French --- Travelers' writings, German --- Travelers --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Wales --- Description and travel. --- In literature. --- Transnational --- Minority culture --- European --- 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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Every place is a product of the stories we tell about it—stories that do not merely describe but in fact shape geographic, social, and cultural spaces. Lone Star Vistas analyzes travelogues that created the idea of Texas. Focusing on the forty-year period between Mexico’s independence from Spain (1821) and the beginning of the US Civil War, Astrid Haas explores accounts by Anglo-American, Mexican, and German authors—members of the region’s three major settler populations—who recorded their journeys through Texas. They were missionaries, scientists, journalists, emigrants, emigration agents, and military officers and their spouses. They all contributed to the public image of Texas and to debates about the future of the region during a time of political and social transformation. Drawing on sources and scholarship in English, Spanish, and German, Lone Star Vistas is the first comparative study of transnational travel writing on Texas. Haas illuminates continuities and differences across the global encounter with Texas, while also highlighting how individual writers’ particular backgrounds affected their views on nature, white settlement, military engagement, Indigenous resistance, African American slavery, and Christian mission.

Travelers' writings, American --- Travelers' writings, German --- Travelers' writings, Mexican --- Travel writing --- History --- Texas --- Description and travel --- Texas history, travelogues, Texas identity, colonization, German Texas, American West, nineteenth-century literature, nineteenth century, nineteenth century Texas.

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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic 'authority', each contributor writes, from memory during the Covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, 'accompanied' by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place. As immobility is forced upon us, at least for the immediate future, we have the chance to reflect.

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine presents opportunities to approach a text as a scholar differently. We break with the traditional academic 'rules' by inserting ourselves into the narrative and foregrounding the personal, subjective elements of literary scholarship. Each contributor critiques an historical description of a place about which, simultaneously, they write a personal account.

Travel writing --- Travel --- COVID-19 (Disease) --- History --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- 2019-nCoV disease --- 2019 novel coronavirus disease --- Coronavirus disease-19 --- Coronavirus disease 2019 --- COVID-19 virus disease --- COVID19 (Disease) --- Novel coronavirus disease, 2019 --- SARS coronavirus 2 disease --- SARS-CoV-2 disease --- Coronavirus infections --- Respiratory infections --- Traveling --- Travelling --- Tourism --- Voyages and travels --- Authorship