{"product_id":"the-art-of-travel-by-philip-dodd-9781138963863","title":"The Art of Travel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1982, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Travel\u003c\/em\u003e is the first collection of critical essays to be devoted to British travel writing. It attempts to give a sense of the wealth of such writing, to map some of its forms and conventions and, implicitly, to claim a place for travel writing in any revised definition of literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor this collection, travel includes sea voyages, European tours, commissioned enquiries into social conditions, and urban writing; travel writing ranges from works such as \u003cem\u003eSea and Sardinia\u003c\/em\u003e by D.H. Lawrence, whose status as a novelist guarantees his travel books some attention, through the essays and books of Victorian middle-class travellers into working-class London, to the work of V.S. Naipaul, a contemporary writer who has increasingly preferred the travel book to the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47607895392492,"sku":"9781138963863","price":111.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781138963863-the-art-of-travel.jpg?v=1778178244","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-art-of-travel-by-philip-dodd-9781138963863","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}