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British Literary Travellers in Southeast Asia in an Era of Colonial Retreat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Clive J. Christie
Clive J. Christie
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University of Hull
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Some write because they travel, and some travel because they write. A large number of progessional writers, not just travel-writers, have derived inspiration from travel: equally, a large number of travellers, who are not professional writers, have nevertheless often felt compelled to encapsulate their experience in literary form. It is the aim of this paper to survey such British travel literature relating to Southeast Asia during the period of massive transformation dating approximately from the ‘20S to the ’ 50S of this century. It is not intended to be comprehensive, but representative of the major landmarks of that literature along with some lesser-known works of particular interest.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , October 1994 , pp. 673 - 737
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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