In transit : travel, text, empire / edited by Helen Gilbert & Anna Johnston.

New York ; Oxford : P. Lang, [2002], ©2002.

vi, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Scotland 1800 : a tourist's matrimonial guide / Lisa O'Connell -- "Making 'the agreeable' to the big wigs" : Lady Nugent's grand tour of duty in Jamaica, 1801-1805 / Clauda Brandenstein -- "Tahiti, 'the desire of our eyes'" : missionary travel narratives and imperial surveillance / Anna Johnston -- Imperial traveler, colonial observer : humanity and difference in Five Years in Kaffirland / Leigh Dale -- Anxieties of imperial decay : three journeys in India / Jo Robertson -- Pleasant companions : nineteenth-century travel writing and the head-hunters of Borneo / Helen Tiffin -- Australia's sublime desert : John McDouall Stuart and Bruce Chatwin / Robert Clarke -- Femininity, modernity, and colonial discourse / Hsu-Ming Teo -- Frank Hurley's Pearls and Savages : travel, representation, and colonial governance / Robert Dixon -- Prime directives : travel in Star Trek and the South Seas tale / Libby Macdonald -- Instant infamy : a short history of Broometime / Gillian Whitlock -- Belated travel : ecotourism as a style of travel performance / Helen Gilbert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.