This exciting anthology provides the best of travel writing by the memsahibs of the Raj who were anxious to see `the real India'. The book salvages long-forgott

When encountering unfamiliar environments in India and the Philippines, the British and the Americans wrote extensively about the first taste of mango and meat

The white women of colonial India wrote extensively during their years of residence in India. This anthology brings together a fascinating collection of such Eu

This book offers a stimulating analysis of three non-canonical texts in different genres written by British women who lived in Sicily in the second half of the

Travel has been a mode of assessment of territory, of knowledge gathering, and of putting a discursive system into place. This volume, edited and introduced by