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."Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan. Tourists with Typewriters, 1998, University of Michigan Press, - page.205
Series NumberAuthorTitleIntroductionNotesIApsley Cherry-GarrardThe Worst Journey in the WorldPaul Theroux1994. Includes the "Postscript to the Worst Journey in the World" (1948) by Cherry GarrardIIRobert ByronThe Road to OxianaBruce Chatwin1994XIJonathan RabanCoasting1995XIIIEuclides da CunhaRebellion in the BacklandsSamuel Putnam1995XVIsabella Lucy BirdThe Hawaiian Archipelago1997XVISybille BedfordA Visit to Don OtavioBruce Chatwin1997XIIGavin YoungSlow Boats to China1995IVRedmond O'HanlonInto the Heart of Borneo1994XEdith WhartonA Motor-Flight Through FranceJulian Barnes1995IIINorman LewisI Came, I Saw1994VNorman DouglasOld Calabria1994 This book had no volume number on the dust coverVIIV. S. NaipaulAn Area of Darkness1995XIVV. S. NaipaulThe Middle Passage1995VIIIColin ThubronAmong the Russians1995IXAlexander KinglakeEothen1995VIPaul TherouxThe Great Railway Bazaar1994 This book had no volume number on the dust coverXVIIEric NewbyA Short Walk in the Hindu KushEvelyn Waugh1997
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