Virtual Voyages

'Virtual Voyages' offers a provocative reassessment of travel writing and the antipodes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It makes significant contributions to our understanding of these narratives, and it deserves a wide readership.' --Robert Markley, Romano Professorial Scholar, University of Illinois; author of 'The Far East in the English Imagination 1600-1730'; and journal editor of 'The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation'

A genuine piece of innovative scholarship, it is produced with an impressive attention to detail and is enhanced by carefully chosen and beautifully reproduced illustrations.' --Peter Hulme, Professor in Literature, University of Essex; author of 'Colonial Encounters and Remnants of Conquest'; and editor of 'The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing'

This excellent study, illustrated with a wealth of detail, shows how generations of Europeans saw this distant world, transplanting their fears and desires in equal parts and shaping the space in ways which continue to mark it even into the present.' --Gareth Griffits, Winthrop Professor of English and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia; author of 'The Empire Writes Back'; and editor of 'The Post-Colonial Studies Reader'