> 
> ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW JOURNAL 
> 
> Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and
> Travel Writing 
> 
> Humans have always travelled. The journeys have been
> for the  sake of discovery, 
> for commerce, trade, and employment, to seek 
> refuge, for learning and science, to 
> fulfil religious obligations, to  impose political
> and administrative systems and for 
> pure pleasure.  Some journeys have been physical,
> some imaginary, others  spiritual: 
> all have involved notions and experiences of change
> and  given new meanings, 
> shapes and significance to the world for  those
> engaged in travelling. The 
> experiences, reflections, thoughts  and commentaries
> of travellers have also changed 
> how others have  perceived and understood other
> places, cultures and societies. 
> 
> Travel writing and other representations of journeys
> as a cultural  practice and 
> product is engaging the attention of scholars and 
> commentators in a wide range of 
> disciplines and its study is  becoming recognised as
> an important academic field. In 
> part this is  a recognition of the existence of a
> broad range of texts which can  be 
> examined and interpreted in terms of their social
> and cultural  significance. It is also 
> related to the fact that, in recent years the 
> writings about travel have become ever 
> more sophisticated -  reflecting the diversity and
> sophistication of modern travellers 
> and  tourists. People are encouraged to seek out new
> experiences in  different 
> countries and cultures through what they have read
> and  their experiences feed back 
> into written commentaries on travel  and tourism. So
> popular is travel writing as a 
> genre that major  bookshops have entire sections
> devoted to the area and there are  
> even bookshops which stock nothing but books of this
> type.  
> 
> There is now a substantial literature in this area
> for which  Journeys will offer a 
> specialist forum for articles, debate and  reviews.
> The remit of Journeys is to reflect 
> the rich diversity of  travels and journeys as
> social and cultural practices as well as 
> their  significance as metaphorical processes. It
> will be a broad-based  
> interdisciplinary journal of particular significance
> for those  interested in the studies 
> of travel writing from the perspectives of,  for
> example, anthropology, social 
> history, religious studies, human  geography,
> sociology, literary criticism and cultural 
> studies.  
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> JOURNEYS - VOLUME 1 [DOUBLE ISSUE] 
> 
> This double edition of Journeys Vol 1 Nos 1/2 [200+]
> pages is  now  
> available.  In keeping with its inter-disciplinary
> remit this edition  has  
> contributions from the perspectives of history,
> anthropology,  sociology,  
> literature and critical studies. 
> 
> 
> Joan-Pau Rubies, Travel Writing as Genre: Facts,
> Fictions and the  
> Invention 
> of a Scientific  
> Discourse in Early Modern Europe 
> 
> Jill Steward, The Adventures of Miss Brown, Miss
> Jones and Miss  
> Robinson: 
> Tourist Writing and  
> Tourist Performance from 1860 to 1914 
> 
> Da Zheng, Home Constructions: Chinese Poetry and
> American  
> Landscape in 
> Chiang Yee's Travel  
> Writings 
> 
> Andrew Russell, The Missing and the Met: Routing
> Clifford  
> Among the Yakha 
> in Nepal and NE  
> India 
> 
> Norman Buchignani, Idleness in South Africa:
> Ethnographic  
> Methods and 
> 'Hottentot' Travel  
> Accounts 
> 
> Dean MacCannell, Symbolic Capital: Urban Design for
> Tourism 
> 
> There are also reviews of : 
> Denis Cosgrove (1999), Mappings, London: Reaktion 
> 
> James Duncan and Derek Gregory (eds) 1999) Writes of
> Passage:  
> Reading Travel Writing, London: Routledge 
> 
> Shelly Errington (1998) The Death of Authentic
> Primitive Art and  Other  
> Tales of Progress, Berekeley, University of
> California Press 
> 
> Nancy Louise Frey (1998) Pilgrim Stories: On and Off
> the Road  to  
> Santiago, Berkeley: University of CaliforniaPress 
> 
> Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan (1998) Tourists
> With  Typewriters:  
> Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing,
> Ann Arbor,  
> University of Michigan Press 
> 
> Giles Milton (1999) Nathaniel's Nutmeg:  How One
> Man's  Courage  
> Changed the Course of History, London: Hodder and
> Stoughton 
> 
> Justin Stagl (1995) A History of Curiosity: The
> Theory of Travel  1550- 
> 1800, London: Harwood Academic Publishers 
> 
> Those interested in further details, or for
> information about  submissions,   
> please contact the Editorial Office at 
> 
> [log in to unmask] 
> 
> or, for subscriptions 
> 
> www.berghahnbooks.com 
> Dr Garry Marvin
> School of Sociology and Social Policy
> Southlands College
> University of Surrey Roehampton
> 80 Roehampton Lane
> London SW15 5SL
> UK
> Tel: (44) 020 8392 3170
> .
> lands College
> University of Surrey Roehampton
> 80 Roehampton Lane
> London SW15 5SL
> UK
> Tel: (44) 020 8392 3170
> .
> 


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