The Endurance of the Travel Saga by Edward Sides

The genre of travel has routinely been accused of fostering Western domination and Eurocentric ignorance. All writing on a distant abroad, the wilder reaches of Asia, Africa, or the Americas, has today become an ethical minefield. But among the triumphs reported here, the odduses, the peaks, the circumnavigations, runs in undertow of adventurers who were the victims,. not conquerors of the people and terrain they encountered.