The Globetrotter

Victorian Excursions in India, China and Japan

New Hardback Illustrated

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Once travelling East had become so much easier following the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, the ‘globetrotters’ became a cultural phenomenon. At first, young upper middle-class men, and later families with the financial resources to spend at least a year travelling made the tour of India, China and Japan. Illustrated with some of the globetrotters’ own photographs, often of themselves in costume, this study examines their itineraries, their encounters and the transformative effects of travel.

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