Picador Travel Classics
Picador Travel Classics is a series of 17 hard-cover books published by Picador during the 1990s. All of the titles are re-prints of what the publishers thought of as "classic" travel literature. Travel literature scholars Holland and Huggan say it is part of a trend in the late 20th century to canonize the travel literature genre, "This is a series that partly announces the classic status - the canonicity - of its volumes through their hardback covers, their introductions and their numbering - it is intended to form a library."[1]
Series
| Number | Author | Title | Introduction | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | Apsley Cherry-Garrard | The Worst Journey in the World | Paul Theroux | 1994. Includes the "Postscript to the Worst Journey in the World" (1948) by Cherry Garrard |
| II | Robert Byron | The Road to Oxiana | Bruce Chatwin | 1994 |
| XI | Jonathan Raban | Coasting | 1995 | |
| XIII | Euclides da Cunha | Rebellion in the Backlands | Samuel Putnam | 1995 |
| XV | Isabella Lucy Bird | The Hawaiian Archipelago | 1997 | |
| XVI | Sybille Bedford | A Visit to Don Otavio | Bruce Chatwin | 1997 |
| XII | Gavin Young | Slow Boats to China | 1995 | |
| IV | Redmond O'Hanlon | Into the Heart of Borneo | 1994 | |
| X | Edith Wharton | A Motor-Flight Through France | Julian Barnes | 1995 |
| III | Norman Lewis | I Came, I Saw | 1994 | |
| V | Norman Douglas | Old Calabria | 1994 This book had no volume number on the dust cover | |
| VII | V. S. Naipaul | An Area of Darkness | 1995 | |
| XIV | V. S. Naipaul | The Middle Passage | 1995 | |
| VIII | Colin Thubron | Among the Russians | 1995 | |
| IX | Alexander Kinglake | Eothen | 1995 | |
| VI | Paul Theroux | The Great Railway Bazaar | 1994 This book had no volume number on the dust cover | |
| XVII | Eric Newby | A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush | Evelyn Waugh | 1997 |
Notes
- ↑ Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan. Tourists with Typewriters, 1998, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 0-472-10973-1 - page.205
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