附註:96年度「補助人文及社會科學研究圖書計畫規劃主題:建築與文化資產」
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-328) and index.
Introduction: Practices and narratives of romantic travel. -- Cycles of accumulation, aesthetics of curiosity, and tempted exchange. -- Curious narrative and the problem of credit: James Bruce's Travels to discover the source of the Nile. -- 'Young Memmon' and romantic Egyptomania. -- Indian travel writing and the imperial picturesque. -- Domesticating distance: three women travel writers in British India. -- Alexander von Humboldt and the romantic imagination of America: the impossibility of personal narrative. -- Conclusion: William Bullock's Mexico and the reassertion of 'popular curiosity'.