Exploration and narrative: travel, writing, publishing, and the House of Murray -- Undertaking travel and exploration: motives and practicalities -- Writing the truth: claims to credibility in exploration and narrative -- Explorers become authors: authorship and authorization -- Making the printed work: paratextual material, visual images, and book production -- Travel writing in the marketplace -- Assembling words and worlds.
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Innes M. Keighren is a senior lecturer in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Bringing Geography to Book: Ellen Semple and the Reception of Geographical Knowledge. Charles W.J. Withers is the Ogilvie Professor of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason. Bill Bell is professor of bibliography at Cardiff University. He is the general editor of the four-volume Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland and editor of The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society.