List of contributors, 1 Introduction, 2 Limited Visions of Africa: Geographies of savagery and civility in early eighteenth-century narratives, 3 Enlightenment Travels: The making of epiphany in Tibet, 4 Writing Travel and Mapping Sexuality: Richard Burton’s Sotadic Zone, 5 The Flight from Lucknow: British women travelling and writing home, 1857–8, 6 Scripting Egypt: Orientalism and the cultures of travel, 7 Dis-Orientation: On the shock of the familiar in a far-away place, 8 The Exoticism of the Familiar and the Familiarity of the Exotic: Fin-de-siècle travellers to Greece, 9 Travelling through the Closet, 10 Writing Over the Map of Provence: The touristic therapy of A Year in Provence, Index