Travel writing is a genre monopolised 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
travellers 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 travelled 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. Selections include The Travels of a Japanese Monk (c.
838), Al-Abdari, The Disgruntled Traveller (c. 1290), A Korean
Official's Account of China (1488), The Poetry of Basho's Road
(1689), Malabari: A Love-Hate Affair with the British (1890).
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