This volume explores the relationship between tourism and travel texts and contemporary society, and how each is shaped by the other. A multimodal analysis is u

This volume explores the relationship between tourism and travel texts and contemporary society, and how each is shaped by the other. A multimodal analysis is u

The books that we read, whether travel-focused or not, may influence the way in which we understand the process or experience of travel. This multidisciplinary

Literature -- through both its texts and its authors -- has often been an important inspiration for tourists. And tourism, in turn, has long inspired literature

Grounding this study in tourist theory, Melton explores how, in five travel books, Twain captures the birth and growth of a new creature who would go on to chan