Sultry Climates by Ian Littlewood
By Ian LittlewoodThe shadow history of travel--the erotic motives for sojourning in sultry climates. Deliciously racy, provocative and quick-witted...Torrid company. --Sunday Times. Here, said the reviewer for Salon. com, is a book that is lively and accessible and erudite...the perfect companion for anyone who wouldnt be cauth dead with an airport paperbackthough I wouldnt want to wager which one provides more juice. Historically, the sexual motives of travel have rarely been spelled out in travel guides and brochures. Sultry Climates is an alternative history of tourism, made up of precisely the details that usually go unmentioned. As Ian Littlewood demonstrates with dazzling elegance and wit, if we want to make sense of the celebrated Grand Tour of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, for example, it's as important to take account of travelers' visits to Dresden streetwalkers and Venetian courtesans as it is to reckon with their visits to the Picture Gallery and the Doge's Palace. To understand the Victorian passion for the Mediterranean is to be aware of Greek and Italian attractions that extended far beyond the historical. From Byron in Greece to Isherwood in Germany, from American expatriates on the Left Bank to Orton in Morocco and right up to the present day, what emerges from these experiences is a continuing motif of tourism, previously neglected or ignored, that comes into full view only with the twentieth century's cult of the sun. Suffice it to say that after reading Sultry Climates , you'll never look at tourists in quite the same way again.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 256 pages
- English
- 0306811553
- 9780306811555
About Ian Littlewood
ian littlewood has taught at universities in france, america, japan and the uk and now lives in sussex with his wife and daughter. he is the author of lite Read More about Ian Littlewood
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