Other Routes: African and Asian Travel Writings from before 1900

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Travel writing is a genre monopolized by Westerners. For centuries the preserve of Europeans who reported on the "exotic," it sought to make sense of other landscapes and cultures, but almost exclusively through a European prism of references.

This anthology, stretching from the fifth to the nineteenth centuries, introduces an entirely different tradition of travel writing-the work of travelers from the world beyond Europe. Other Routes collects important primary work by travel...

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Overview

Travel writing is a genre monopolized by Westerners. For centuries the preserve of Europeans who reported on the "exotic," it sought to make sense of other landscapes and cultures, but almost exclusively through a European prism of references.

This anthology, stretching from the fifth to the nineteenth centuries, introduces an entirely different tradition of travel writing-the work of travelers from the world beyond Europe. Other Routes collects important primary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in English translation. Encompassing spiritual journeys, the personal, ethnography, natural history, geography, cartography, navigation, politics, history, religion, and diplomacy, it shows that Africans and Asians also traveled the world and left travel writing worth reading. An introduction by Tabish Khair discusses travel literature as a genre, the perception of travel and writing about travel as a European privilege, and the emergence of new writings that show that travel has been a human occupation that crosses time and culture.

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"The editors offer 33 carefully excerpted travel accounts that range chronologically from the 5th century CE... to the late 19th century.... The volume includes a literary foreword by Amitav Ghosh and a lucid and scholarly introduction by Khair. Each of these highly readable travel accounts is preceded by an informative editorial overview that looks at the traveler, the land through which the traveler journeys, and the purpose of travel (commerce, enlightenment, conversion, etc.).... Highly recommended." —Choice
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780253346933
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publication date: 2/15/2005
  • Pages: 400
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Tabish Khair teaches at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Justin D. Edwards is an associate professor at Copenhagen University, Denmark.

Martin Leer is an associate professor at Copenhagen University, Denmark.

Hanna Ziadeh is a Lebanese writer and translator who lives in Denmark.

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Table of Contents

African and Asian travel texts in the light of Europe : an introduction 1
Three Chinese scholars go "west" to India 32
The travels of a Japanese monk 42
The pillow book of Sei Shonagon 47
The Haj and other journeys of ibn Jubayr 54
The pilgrimages of Lady Nijo 71
Al-Buruni's defence of Hindu India 78
The horizons of al-Idrisi in the eleventh century 85
Two Chinese accounts of the early Mongols 102
A Chinese account of the lost city of Angokor 112
Navigating with ibn Majid 119
Piri Reis : the voyages of a "corsair" 127
The ambivalence of Leo Africanus 131
The memoirs of a Syrian Prince-Polymath 146
The accidental travels of a Korean official 155
The travel memoirs of Babur 162
The European diaries of Uruch Beg 173
The travel diaries of Xu Xiake 184
Equiano's voyage to slavery and freedom 191
Dean Mahomed writes from the centre 201
African Muslim slave narratives of the nineteenth century 214
The diary of Queen Emma of Hawaii 237
The Shah of Iran in European corridors 245
An African-Arab Princess in Europe 261
A merchant of Baghdad reports on a viking funeral 274
Al-Abdari, the disgruntled traveller 281
Ibn Battuta, world traveller 289
An Arab cleric in South America 299
The poetry of Basho's road 306
Mirza I'tesamuddin's wonders of vilayet 316
An Indian aristocrat in Africa and Europe 327
Al-Amraoui : Moroccan ambassador to Europe 348
Blyden : a pan-Africanist's voyage to Palestine 356
Malabari : a love-hate affair with the British 366
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