Author: Burdett, Charles & Duncan, Derek [editors]
Title: Cultural Encounters - European Travel Writing In The 1930s
Description: Berghahn Books, Oxford, 2002, 1st edition. Illustrated boards, F. x+211pp, 13 b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ISBN: 9781571818102 ¶ A collection of twelve essays on the travel writing of the 1930s, a decade which saw the rise of right wing nationalism & a reassertion of national identities. The writers of the period used their work to give perceptions of their own & other cultures in a challenging decade. Contains : Journey With Maps by Andrew Thacker - Sa(L)Vaging Exoticism by Charles Forsdick - Travel And Autobiography by Derek Duncan - Bringing Home The Truth About The Revolution by Mayte Go´mez - Politics Of The Everyday And The Eternity Of Ruins by Jo Labanyi - Signs Of Roman Rule by Charles Burdett - Tradition And Modernism In Gustav Rene Hocke's Travel Books, 1937-39 by Helmut Peitsch - Dramatic Encounters by Sarah Wright - Gide In Egypt 1939 by Naomi Segal - Making The Case For Cross-Cultural Exchange by Howard J. Booth - Investigating Indochina by Nicola Cooper - Aristocrats, Geographers, Reporters .. by Loredana Polezzi.

Keywords: ISBN 9781571818102, european history, cultural history, travel, 1930, fascism 9781571818102