Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-415) and index.

"Travel writing is a genre monopolized by Westerners. For centuries the preserve of Europeans who reported on the "exotic," it sought to make sense of other landscapes and cultures, but almost exclusively through a European prism of references." "This anthology, stretching from the fifth to the nineteenth centuries, introduces an entirely different tradition of travel writing-the work of travelers from the world beyond Europe. Other Routes collects important primary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in English translation. Encompassing spiritual journeys, the personal, ethnography, natural history, geography, cartography, navigation, politics, history, religion, and diplomacy, it shows that Africans and Asians also traveled the world and left travel writing worth reading. An introduction by Tabish Khair discusses travel literature as a genre, the perception of travel and writing about travel as a European privilege, and the emergence of new writings that show that travel has been a human occupation that crosses time and culture. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Translated into English from multiple languages.

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