Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- Chapter One. Travel Books as Objects of Scholarly Interest -- Travel Books and Travel Writing: Generic Issues in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives -- Travel Books, Travel Writing and Discourses -- Travel Books, the Diachronic Perspective and Sociology -- Chapter Two. The Origins of the British Travel Book -- Travel Narratives in Ancient Literary Traditions -- Early Pre-Travelogues -- Pre-Travelogues and Their Narrative Personae in the Period of Geographical Discoveries and Colonial Expansion -- Social and Literary Paths to Travel Books in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter Three. Male Narrative Personae of British Travel Books from Henry Fielding to Norman Douglas -- Male Narrative Personae of British Travel Booksin the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century -- Towards a Taxonomy of British Romantic and VictorianTravel Books -- Narrative Personae of Aesthetic Travel Books in Romantic and Victorian Culture -- Narrative Personae of Sentimental Travel Books in Romantic and Victorian Literature -- Narrative Personae of Imperialist Travel Booksin the Victorian Age -- PART TWO -- Chapter Four. The Narrative Personae of D.H. Lawrence's Travel Books -- Literary Paths to Twilight in Italy -- Sea and Sardinia -- Mornings in Mexico -- Etruscan Places -- Chapter Five. The Narrative Personae of Aldous Huxley's Travel Books -- Aldous Huxley on the Road and the Persona of a Belated Grand Tourist -- Jesting Pilate and the Persona of a Detached Intellectual -- Beyond the Mexique Bay and the Persona of a Concerned Intellectual -- Chapter Six. The Narrative Personae of Evelyn Waugh's Travel Books -- A Tourist in Fully Labelled Places -- Remote People -- Ninety-Two Days of Evelyn Waugh's Ordeal -- Waugh in Abyssinia and Mexico -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

A List of Illustrations -- Index.