Voyages and Visions. Towards a Cultural History of Travel. Edited by Elsner, Jas. London: Reaction Books, 1999. 355 pp.

1 From Mt Ventoux to Mt Masaya: The Rise and Fall of Subjectivity in Early Modern Travel Narrative Jesu?s Carrillo 57

2 Futility in the New World: Narratives of Travel in Sixteenth-CenturyAmerica Joan-Pau Rubie?s 74

3 'Rubbing up against others': Montaigne on Pilgrimage Wes Williams 101

4 The Philosopher as Traveller: Bernier's Orient Peter Burke 124

5 Looking for Virgil's Tomb: The End of the Grand Tour and the Cosmopolitan Ideal in Europe Melissa Calaresu 138

6 Precision and Curiosity in Scientific Travel: James Rennell and the Orientalist Geography of the New Imperial Age (1760 –1830) Michael T. Bravo 162

7 'The Ghost in Chapultepec': Fanny Caldero?n de la Barca, William Prescott and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Travel Accounts Nigel Leask 184

8 Partners: Guides and Sherpas in the Alps and Himalayas, 1850s–1950s Peter H. Hansen 210

9 The European Journey in Postwar American Fiction and Film Kasia Boddy 232

10 Per ardua ad astra: Authorial Choice and the Narrative of Interstellar Travel Edward James 252