Alasdair Pettinger is an independent scholar based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has published on travel literature, the cultures of slavery and abolitionism, and representations of Haiti. His books include the anthology Always Elsewhere (1998) and Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846 (2018). Tim Youngs is Professor of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University. His books include The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (edited with Peter Hulme, 2002), The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing (2013) and The Cambridge History of Travel Writing (edited with Nandini Das, 2019).

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction / Alasdair Pettinger and Tim YoungsPart One: Framing Travel The Scientific Traveller / Angela Byrne Nature Writing / Paul Smethurst Migrant Narratives / Aedín Ní Loingsigh The Expatriate Life / Lynn Mastellotto Travelling in Pairs / Kathryn N. Jones Footsteps / Maria Lindgren Leavenworth Vertical Travel / Charles ForsdickPart Two: Modes of Writing Letters / Eve Tavor Bannet Diaries and Journals / Christina Laffin Guidance and Advice / Alasdair Pettinger Narrative / John Culbert Description / Benjamin Colbert Lectures / Tom F. WrightPart Three: Sensuous Geographies Seeing / Margaret Topping Hearing / Tim Youngs Touching / Sarah Jackson Tasting / Heidi Oberholtzer Lee Smelling / Clare BrantPart Four: Interactions Hospitality / Kevin J. James Foreign Exchange / David Murray Between Languages / Michael Cronin Animals / Elizabeth LeanePart Five: Paratexts Editorial Matters / Michael G. Brennan Maps / James R. Akerman Book and Print Technology / Innes KeighrenWorks CitedIndex

"The editors of the The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing, Alasdair Pettinger and Tim Youngs, are leading experts in the field of travel writing… Each individual contribution is persuasively argued and demonstrates its arguments and findings with examples of representative primary texts. The diversity of the travel narratives analyzed in the volume exemplifies the heterogeneity and richness of the genre. This makes for a compelling read for those who are new to the field as well as for those who are acquainted with the study of travel writing."- Isabel Kalous, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (Giessen)