Safety Essentials for Business and Leisure Travel
This book blends in-depth research on global risk mitigation with unique perspectives on travel safety. It tackles hard issues like kidnapping and contingency planning, incorporating the real-life experiences of an author who survived torture and abduction. Essential reading.
A Cultural Analysis of Mobile Communities on Board Cruise Ships
This book argues that the pleasures of a cruise have changed little since the nineteenth century. Drawing on travel writing from Mark Twain and the author’s own voyages on cruise and container ships, it examines what passengers do with their time and how that time is controlled.
Exploring Travel and Tourism
These essays examine the significance of travel and the tourist experience over the last two hundred years. From Borneo to Cuba to Niagara Falls, the authors unpack the meanings of nationality, postcolonialism, place, gender, and class in travel studies.
This is the first-ever reprinting of 27 letters by Mary Mason Fairbanks from the 1867 Quaker City cruise, one of the most famous travel excursions in American history. The letters feature cameo appearances by her fellow passenger and lifelong friend, Mark Twain.