Vol. 3 · No. 2

Reviews

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Asli Çirakman, From the 'Terror of the World' to the 'Sick Man of Europe': European Images of Ottoman Empire and Society from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth. New York: Peter Lang, 2002, x +236pp., ISBN 0 8204 5189 4, £39.00, US$59.95 (hardback).

Alexander Drace-Francis

School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK

Reuben Ellis, Vertical Margins: Mountaineering and the Landscapes of Neoimperialism. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001, viii +231 pp., ISBN 0 299 17000 4, US$55.00 (hardback); ISBN 0 299 17004 7, US$21.95 (paper).
Fergus Fleming, Killing Dragons: A History of Alpine Exploration. London: Granta Books, 2001, xx +387 pp., ISBN 1 86207 379 1, £20.00 (hardback); ISBN 1 86207 453 4, £9.99 (paper).
Jim Ring, How the English Made the Alps. London: John Murray, 2000, xii +287 pp., ISBN 0 7195 5689 9, £19.99 (hardback); ISBN 0 7195 5691 0, £12.99 (paper).

Marguerite Helmers

Department of English, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA

George Forster, A Voyage Round the World, ed. Nicholas Thomas and Oliver Berghof, assisted by Jennifer Newell, 2 vols. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000, lvii +860 pp., ISBN 0 8248 20916, US$115.00 (hardback).

Tim Fulford

Department of English, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Helen Gilbert and Anna Johnston (eds) In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire. New York: Peter Lang, 2002, 276 pp., ISBN 0 8204 5699 3, £21.00, US$29.95 (paper).

Jonathan Skinner

Refugee Studies Centre University of Oxford, UK

Robin Jarvis, Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000, x +246 pp., ISBN 0 333 79460 5, £20.50 (paper).

Simon K**ovesi

Department of English Studies, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Smith and Nicholas Thomas (eds), Exploration and Exchange: a South Seas Anthology, 1680-1900. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000, xxv +359 pp., ISBN 0 226 46845 3, US$49.00 (hardback); ISBN 0 226 46846 1, US$18.00 (paper).
Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves (eds) Bad Colonists: the South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 1999, xxiii+163 pp., ISBN 8223 2257 9, US$49.95 (hardback); ISBN 0 8223 2222 6, US$17.95 (paper).

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Queen Mary's College, University of London, UK

Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin. London: Vintage. 2001, 591 pp., ISBN 0 09928 9970, £8.99 (paper).

Serge Gruzinski

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales,

Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains, Paris

[Translated from the French by Alex Drace-Francis School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London]

Raghubir Singh, A Way into India. London: Phaidon, 2002, 124 pp., ISBN: 0 7148 42117, £24.95, US$39.95 (hardback).

Shamoon Zamir

Research Centre for American Studies, King's College London, UK